Gordon Brett lied to enlist in the navy in January 1915 at age sixteen and became the forty-eighth Canadian to enlist for naval service. He served both on submarines and aboard the ships HMCS Niobe, HMCS Rainbow, and HMCS Armentières. An engine he was fixing aboard the Niobe exploded and he spent two years in a hospital in Port Royal, Jamaica. He was discharged in February 1919 and served in the Second World War with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He later lived in British Columbia, where he died in 1993 at the age of ninety-six.

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