Mr. H. Fred Parkinson, of Toronto, has brought high honour to the Bar of Ontario. Called to the Bar in 1913, he became a junior partner with the firm of Mowat, Langton, and Maclennan, of Toronto; but in 1916, after taking an officer's training course, he took a commission as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Shortly before sailing for England he married Miss Goulding, of Weston. Assigned to the Motor Boat Patrol Servicè, he took part in what were, perhaps, the two most stirring episodes in the whole history of the British navy, the Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids, and we heartily congratulate him on having come safely through both. He was, no doubt, one of those Zeebrugge heroes, who claimed, as a favour they were entitled to, to be permitted to take part in the Ostend affair also; and we are glad to be told that after the latter a cable message reached Toronto Safe again." Lieutenant Parkinson is the son of Mr. Mathew Parkinson, of Toronto, the well-known publisher, and for many years a Public School trustee, his parents, as well as himself, being native-born Canadians. Through the kindness of the former we are enabled to publish Lieutenant Parkinson's own simple and manly account of the Raid on the Mole at Zeebrugge. Lieutenant Parkinson's brother Harry, himself a law-student in Toronto, was recently called to the Bar in uniform, and is now a lieutenant with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 66 VOL. XXXVIII. C.L.T.-24 |