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John MacMorran "Jock" Anderson
Chaplain to the Highland Light Infantry of Canada. Landed at Normandy
on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Received two Military Crosses for courage and
initiative in evacuating casualites under heavy enemy fire. [ Image Details ] | William James Archibald
Flight Sergeant with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Buried at Dunkirk,
France, September 30, 1941. William is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll
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Edwin Lusk Ashbury
Flight Lieutenant (pilot) with #521 Squadron. Killed in action
October 28, 1944, at the age of 22. He is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | George Carman Atkins
Leading Aircraftman (pilot) with #11 Service Flying Training School,
Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Killed October 15, 1943, at the age of 19. He is
commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour
Roll.
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Peter Barnicke Pilot
Officer (air gunner) with #138 Squadron. Killed in action November 9,
1944, at the age of 19. He is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar
High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | Harry Barrett
Gunner for the 4th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, on leave in Brussels, Belgium in April, 1945.
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Don Bastead
Sergeant, Middle Upper Gunner with the Royal Canadian Air Force from
1943 to 1945 with the 432 Leaside Squadron, stationed at East Moore,
Yorkshire. [ Image Details ] | James Beattie
Corporal with the Lorne Scots at Heathfield, Sussex, 1941.
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James H. Bedlington
Lieutenant Cpl. with #1 Provost Coy, Canadian Provost Corps. Killed
April 30, 1943, at the age of 28. He is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | John Patrick Blackham
Lieutenant with the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps. Killed June 29,
1944. He is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School
1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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William T. Bowles
Staff Sargeant with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, 1st Canadian Division, in Italy, 1944.
[ Image Details ] | Charles Lorne Bray
Flight Sergeant (pilot) with #103 Squadron. Killed in action April 25,
1942, at the age of 21. He is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar
High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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Sid Brown
Gary Kress, Chuck Hamilton, Sid Brown, and William Holbrook (left to
right)at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, before going overseas with the
Lorne Scots 2nd Division of the Royal Canadian Army, 1941. [ Image Details ] | Canboro Browne
Served overseas with the Queens Own Battalion. [ Image Details ] |
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Brothers Garfield "Gar" and Canboro "Can" Browne
Brothers "Can" (left)and "Gar" (right), with the Queens Own Battalion Band at the sport stadium in Berlin.
[ Image Details ] | Nat. Buchanan
Cadet killed in World War II. He is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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Roland Montgomery Bull
Flying Officer (observer) with #410 Cougar Squadron. Killed in action
April 10, 1943, at the age of 24. He is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | Arthur Bullied
Leading Writer for the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. Served from December 1942 until demobilized in April 1946.
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Alvin Bumby
Joined the Royal Canadian Signal Corps in Hamilton the first week after
war broke out in 1939, and was overseas from 1939-1946. Met and married
his wife, Irene, a registered nurse in England, in 1942 during the war.
[ Image Details ] | Irene Bumby
Registered Nurse in England, worked "on relief" wherever needed,
1939-1944. Met Alvin Bumby during the war in 1942, married him, and
came to Canada after the war. [ Image Details ] |
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Arthur Herbert Butler
Ordinary Seaman, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. Served on the
H.M.C.S. Shawinigan. Killed November 24, 1944 at the age of 20.
Commemorated on the Oakville High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | John Caird
Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, 1942-1947; sometimes jointly
attached to the Royal Canadian Air Force. John moved to Canada in 1957,
and to Oakville in 1961. [ Image Details ] |
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John and Marjorie Callingham (left) [ Image Details ] | Robert and Evelyn Callingham, 1942 [ Image Details ] |
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Ken Chambers
Flying Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Served initially as a mechanic then as a pilot, from 1940 to 1945.
[ Image Details ] | Charles Daniel "Dan" Chisholm
Served as Staff Officer with the Lorne Scots in Ottawa, London,
England, Italy, and Holland. Promoted during the war from Captain to
Major. [ Image Details ] |
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Emelda Chisholm
Served as a military nurse during both world wars for the United States
[ Image Details ] | Frank Herbert "Herb" Chisholm, Jr.
Served with the Lorne Scots in North Africa as Canadian personnel attached to British 5th Army.
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Served in the Canadian Armoured Corps, 1941-1946.
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William I. Cook
Private with the Royal Canadian Ordinance Corps, Regiment B-147744, 1942-1946.
[ Image Details ] | Jackson Chartis Cooke
Flight Sergeant (pilot) with #103 Squadron. Killed in action November
29, 1944, at the age of 20. Commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High
School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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John Cooper Pilot (right) standing under a Halifax III Bomber Aircraft. [ Image Details ] | Alan G. Cutmore
Enlisted, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, 1942. Assigned to the
Royal Navy as Petty Officer. Sailed on Royal Mail ship Camaronia to
Glasgow, then aboard HMS Ferret and HMS Weston. [ Image Details ] |
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William (Bill) Charles Cutmore
Volunteered for the First Special Service Force. Bill was with the
Force from its mission in Kiska, Alaska, to its last mission in Menton,
where he was killed in action, 1944. [ Image Details ] | George W. (Bud) Daikens
Joined the Royal Canadian Navy, serving on anti-submarine patrol in the
North Atlantic, and on minesweeping patrol off Halifax, 1943-1945. [ Image Details ] |
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Rose Daikens
Formerly Rose Cutmore. Employed at the "Small Arms" plant in Long
Branch from early World War II until volunteering with the Royal
Canadian Navy WRENs, in late 1942. [ Image Details ] | Brothers Edward M. Davis and Robert W. Davis
Edward M. Davis (left) joined the Royal Navy and was posted to HMS
Illustrious as a Torpedo Bomber Pilot. Robert W. Davis (right) joined
the Shipwright Branch of the Royal Canadian Navy. [ Image Details ] |
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William E. Davis
Served in North Africa, Holland and Germany until 1946.
[ Image Details ] | Allan W. Day
Flying Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force in the position of Wireless Air Gunner, 1943-1946.
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Richard Boyd Dowding
Flying Officer (wireless operator air gunner) with #426 Thunderbird
Squadron. Killed in action December 5, 1944, at the age of 21. He is
commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour
Roll.
[ Image Details ] | Don Dowdle
Don Dowdle (right) and Frank MacCuden (left)with the Lorne Scots in Holland, 1944.
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Alvin Duncan Radar
Operator in the Royal Air Force, "on loan" from the Royal Canadian Air
Force. Alvin trained as a Radar Operator following Winston Churchill's
call to Ottawa to recruit Canadian men to learn this new technology. [ Image Details ] | Charles Laurie Dynes
Leading Aircraftman with #10 North Atlantic Squadron. Killed in action
October 20, 1943, at the age of 21. He is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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Tommy Ewing
In Toronto Scottish Dress Uniform. Taken at training camp in England.
[ Image Details ] | Harry P. Farr
Flying Officer (navigator) with #434 Bluenose Squadron. Killed in
action October 23, 1943, at the age of 28. Harry has no known grave. He
is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour
Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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Ralph Emerson Featherstone
Flying Officer (air gunner) with #5 Ferry Unit. Killed April 8, 1945,
at the age of 23. He is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High
School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | Grenville Roy Finch-Noyes
With the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Onshore service in Halifax.
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George Forbes
Corporal with the 48th Highlanders. [ Image Details ] | Lockie Forbes
Private with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry.
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Roy Thomas Forbes
Private with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry.
[ Image Details ] | Agnes Forster
Captain, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
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W.B. Forster
Served with the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve in Regiment V63301, 1943-1945.
[ Image Details ] | M.C. Forster
Served with the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1943 to 1948 in Regiments R-270249 and -26065.
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John Bruce Fox
Flight Sergeant (navigator) with #1659 Heavy Conversion Unit. Killed
February 12, 1944, at the age of 26. He is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | "Jimmie" William James Andrew Gibb
Gunner for the Second Canadian Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery, First Division. Served in Italy 1943-1945.
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William Grammell
Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Served as a tailor a the #1
Equipment Deport in Toronto. During World War I, Grammell served as a
Corporal in the 15th London Regiment (British Army). [ Image Details ] | Charles Duncan Bremner Green
Awarded the Croix De Guerre. Squadron Leader, D.F.C., Royal Canadian
Air Force. Killed October 3, 1941, at the age of 44. He is commemorated
on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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Chuck Hamilton
Gary Kress, Chuck Hamilton, Sid Brown, and William Holbrook (left to
right) at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, before going overseas with the
Lorne Scots 2nd Division of the Royal Canadian Army, 1941. [ Image Details ] | John Oliver Hart
Served with the United States Marine Corps. [ Image Details ] |
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| Nancy Hart
In military uniform of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service.
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Douglas Heath
Staff Sergeant, Corps Military Staff, Ottawa.
[ Image Details ] | Francis Heath
Staff Sergeant, Corps Military Staff, Ottawa.
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Edward Heath
Sergeant with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. Edward was slightly wounded and taken prisoner of war at the Dieppe Raid.
[ Image Details ] | Harry Heath
Sergeant with the Lorne Scots Regiment. Served in England as an instructor.
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William Heath
Went overseas with a reinforcement unit. Served in Italy, France, and Holland.
[ Image Details ] | Charles Herson
Lieutenant, killed in World War II. Charles is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll.
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Albert Douglas "Doug" Hitchcox
Flying officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force; later attached to the
Royal Air Force. In the position of Navigator, Doug flew on 41
bombing missions over France and Germany including D-Day, June 6, 1944.
[ Image Details ] | "Teddy" Charles Edward Hillmer
Flight Sergeant (wireless operator air gunner), #405 City of Vancouver
Squadron. Killed in action November 30, 1941, at the age of 23. He is
commemorated on the Oakville High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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William Holbrook
Gary Kress, Chuck Hamilton, Sid Brown, and William Holbrook (left to
right)at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, before going overseas with the
Lorne Scots 2nd Division of the Royal Canadian Army, 1941. [ Image Details ] | Grant O. Hughes
Private, 1939-1945.
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Jim Hughes
Royal Canadian Air Force.
[ Image Details ] | Margaret F. Huges
Sergeant, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Hughes
Private in World War II.
[ Image Details ] | Les Hunt
With the Queens Own Battalion Band.
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Audrey Johnson
Civil Defence Ambulance Driver in England, 1942. Worked with the Mobile Hospital in Banstead, Surrey from 1940 to 1944.
[ Image Details ] | Handel Johnson
Corporal and then Sergeant with the Royal Air Force from 1940 to 1945.
Attached to Royal Canadian Air Force #6 Bomber Command in the Medical
Division. [ Image Details ] |
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William Edmund Norman Keller
Flying Officer (pilot) with #99 Squadron. Killed in action October 13, 1940, at the age of 22. He is commemorated on the [ Image Details ] | Roy Kelley
Served with the Lorne Scots, obtaining rank of Sergeant in 1936. In
1940 received commission and was the platoon officer for Milton area.
Went overseas in June 1941, served in England and on the Continent
until the end of the war. [ Image Details ] |
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John Beverley Kemp Flight
Sergeant (pilot), #22 Operational Training Unit. Brother to Kenneth
Donovan Kemp. Killed July 6, 1942, at the age of 21. He is commemorated
on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | Kenneth Donovan Kemp
Flight Lieutenant (bomb aimer), #405 City of Vancouver Squadron.
Brother to John Beverley Kemp. Killed in action in August 1944 at the
age of 24. He is commemorated on the Oakville [ Image Details ] |
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William Joseph Lawrence
Flight Sergeant (engineer) with #75 New Zealand Squadron. Killed
December 16, 1942, at the age of 22. William is buried in the Newmarket
Cemetery, Suffolk, England. He is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High Sch [ Image Details ] | John Nelson Secord King
Flight Sergeant (observer), #1654 Conversion Unit. Killed in action
September 17, 1942, at the age of 21. He is commemorated on the
Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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Gary Kress
Gary Kress, Chuck Hamilton, Sid Brown, and William Holbrook (left to
right)at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, before going overseas with the
Lorne Scots 2nd Division of the Royal Canadian Army, 1941. [ Image Details ] | Donald Elmore Leaver
Lieutenant in the Lorne Scots, serving as an infantry reinforcement
officer. Joined the Algonquin Regiment and fought as a platoon
commander in France, Belgium, and Holland. He was wounded in Holland,
1944.
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Rosseau Kitchener Leaver
Lance Corporal with the 48th Highlanders from 1941 to 1945. Served in England, North Africa, Italy, and Holland.
[ Image Details ] | John Gordon Leonard
Corporal with the Royal Regiment of Canada, Third Canadian Battalion. He had previously served in the First World War. [ Image Details ] |
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May Lothian
Nursing Officer from 1942 to 1945 with Queen Alexandra's Imperial
Nursing Service. Moved to Oakville with her husband, Tom, in 1988.
[ Image Details ] | Tom Lothian
Captain (later Major) in the Royal Army Ordinance Corps
(Ammunition) serving from 1939-1947. Commanding Officer of Beach
Landing Brigades and of Ammunition Depots. Worked behind enemy lines in
Anzio, Italy.
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Jack Markey
Sergeant with the Lorne Scots from 1941 to 1945.
[ Image Details ] | Frank MacCuden
Don Dowdle (right) and Frank MacCuden (left)with the Lorne Scots in Holland, 1944. [ Image Details ] |
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William Markey
Pilot Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1942 to 1945. Awarded the French Croix de Guerre.
[ Image Details ] | Brothers Ken (left) and Peter (right) Marlatt.
Private Peter Marlatt enlisted with the Canadian Infantry and
transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force after the war. Ken Marlatt,
Ward Officer, 1st Class, RCAF, served as a flying instructor [ Image Details ] |
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Bill Marshall
Pilot Officer killed in World War II. He is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | Dick Marshall
Served with the 48th Highlanders before enlisting in the Royal Canadian
Air Force in 1941. Sergeant "Air Frame Mechanic-Wood," and worked as
carpenter in aircraft repair. He was posted to Quebec, New Brunswick,
and Newfoundland. [ Image Details ] |
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Ivan Mavrinac
Staff Sergeant, Royal Canadian Engineers. Stationed at A5CETC (Canadian
Engineers Training Centre) in Petawawa from 1941 to 1945. Ivan and his
wife moved to Oakville in 1987. [ Image Details ] | James McArthur
Private with the Toronto Scottish and was with the first contingent of
Canadian soldiers to arrive in England. Attained rank of Company
Quarter-Master Sergeant before year's end in 1939. [ Image Details ] |
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Frank McCraney
Overseas during World War II.
[ Image Details ] | Malcolm McDonald
Served as Stoker I with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1943 to 1945. Met wife, Marie Lang, while in the service.
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Marie McDonald
Formerly Marie Lang. Leading Air Woman for the Royal Canadian Air
Force. Met husband Malcolm McDonald while in the service and returned
with him to Oakville following the war. [ Image Details ] | Jane Burnet McGillivray
Ambulance driver, "Madly Mobile" with the Canadian Red Cross, attached
to the British Red Cross, in England, 1945. Before (and after) going
overseas, Jane was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Jane [ Image Details ] |
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Douglas Granville Morris
Flight Lieutenant (pilot), #400 City of Toronto Squadron. Killed
February 8, 1942, at the age of 25. Douglas is buried in the Brookwood
Military Cemetery, Woking, Surrey, England. He is commemorated on the
Oakville Tr [ Image Details ] | Orville R. Neal
Attended Galt Aircraft School in 1940, joined the Royal Canadian Air
Force in 1941, stationed in Trenton until early 1945. Posted to
England, to #6 Bomber Group in Skipton on Swale, Yorkshire. Orville
moved to Oakville about 1 [ Image Details ] |
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Lloyd Nelson
Served as a Lance Corporal (Driver of the Bren Gun Carrier), Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, 1940-1945.
[ Image Details ] | Bill Newport
Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1942-1945. Stationed in Prince Edward Island at the Air Observer School.
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Eileen Newport
Served as Lance Corporal with the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Stationed in Ottawa, Kingston, and Montreal from 1942 to 1945.
[ Image Details ] | Walter Stone Nugent
Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the position of
Navigator/Bomber. First attached to Coastal Command #221 stationed in
Ireland and Iceland, then served in Malta in 1942. Later transferred to
Vancouver I [ Image Details ] |
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Zouch Palmer
Lieutenant, Canadian Field Artillery. Zouch and his wife, Peggy, moved to Oakville in 1947.
[ Image Details ] | Paul Parkin
Private with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry from March 20, 1940, to
August 27th, 1945. Prisoner of war at Dieppe on August 19, 1942, until
August 1945. [ Image Details ] |
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Robert Nelson Perdue
Flight Lieutenant (pilot) with #622 Squadron. Killed in action December
24, 1944, at the age of 26. He is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | Henry W. Peterson
Gunner in the 3rd Anti-Tank Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery,
3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Served from 1942 to 1946 in England,
France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. [ Image Details ] |
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Norman Percival Pickering
Served with the Royal Canadian Army, Driver Training. Stationed in Camp Borden, Ontario. [ Image Details ] | Wallace Pickering
Gunner killed in World War II. Wallace is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1940 Honour Roll.
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Ralph Prescott
Served with the Irish Regiment of Canada. [ Image Details ] | Ernie Price
With the Queens Own Battalion Band, overseas in Italy.
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Winnifred Price
Served in the Royal Canadian Air Force Womens' Division from January
1942 to February 1946. Entered as "general duties" and re-mustered to
clerk. [ Image Details ] | George Balfour Nicol Ramsey
Flight Lieutenant (pilot) with #3 Operational Training Unit, Patricia
Bay, B.C. Killed December 2, 1944. He is commemorated on the Oakville
Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |
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Alan G. Reith
Aircraftsman R.62686, with the Royal Canadian Air Force, in Egypt. Lived his last years in Oakville.
[ Image Details ] | Harry Ridley
Royal Canadian Air Force, 434 Squadron. Ridley was awarded a
Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts as a tail gunner on D-Day,
June 6 1944. [ Image Details ] |
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Charles Rivaz
Captain, killed in World War II. Charles is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll.
[ Image Details ] | Commodore O. Robertson
Appointed Commanding Officer of H.M.C.S. Fundy and Senior Officer of
the first Minesweeping Flotilla in 1939. In 1941 he took command of one
of Canada's Armed Merchant Cruisers, H.M.C.S. Prince Rupert. [ Image Details ] |
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James Cameron Sackfield
Enlisted with the Lorne Scots at the age of 16. Went overseas in 1941.
James died in 1944 at the age of 20, from wounds received in France. He
was survived by his wife and baby daughter in London, England. [ Image Details ] | Alfred Ernest Savage
Corporal with the RCAF. Served as a driver for the Mechanical Transport
Unit for Toronto Squadron #110, then joined Squadron #400 in England
and served in Bomber Command in North Africa with Squadron #420. [ Image Details ] |
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Andrew Millar Savage
Corporal with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Served from 1941 to 1945 in England, India, and Burma.
[ Image Details ] | Howard Gordon Savage
Flight Lieutenant, enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a
medical doctor in 1942. Posted to Halifax following classification in
Aviation Medicine. [ Image Details ] |
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Elizabeth Irene Thomson (Shields)
Private with the Canadian Women Army Corps, 1945-1946.
[ Image Details ] | John Shields
Private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada. Served in Jamaica, England, Scotland, and Belgium, 1940-1945.
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Thomas "Tim" Shields
Private with the Perth Regiment, 5th Division. Served in England, Italy, France, Holland, and Germany, 1942-1945.
[ Image Details ] | William N. Shields
Stoker, 1st Class, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, 1943-1945.
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William Bourne Sinclair
Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Engineers, later became Major. William and his wife, Margaret, moved to Oakville in 1951.
[ Image Details ] | Percy Spurgeon
Sergeant with First Canadian Division, Canadian Army Special Force. Served in England and France, 1940-1945.
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Kathleen F. Taylor
Served from 1943 to 1946 with the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service,
Ldg. Wren 2946, a member of the File Revision Unit, in Newfoundland and
other naval establishments across Canada. [ Image Details ] | Gordon Slater
Major, killed in World War II. Gordon is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll.
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Catherine A. Smith
Served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1939-1945. Stationed in the Toronto area.
[ Image Details ] | Margaret D. Taylor
Lieutenant Nursing Sister. Served in Canada, England, France, and Italy.
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Peter F. Taylor
Gunner, served with the 23rd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
Self Propelled, in England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. [ Image Details ] | Geoffrey W. Smith
Enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1941. Trained
as an ASDIC. Served in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the North Atlantic
in minesweepers and corvettes, promoted to Sub-Lieutenant in 1943. [ Image Details ] |
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Norm Thacker
Officer Commanding, Royal Canadian Air Force, at the #10 Bombing and Gunnery School in Mount Pleasant, Prince Edward Island.
[ Image Details ] | Joy (Dunham) Smith
Corporal Dunham later became Sergeant Smith after her marriage in 1944
to Geoffrey Smith in Halifax. She served with the Canadian Women's Army
Corps in Quebec and Newfoundland. [ Image Details ] |
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Harry Tomkins
Sniper, originally with the 48th Highlanders. Following World War II,
remained one year overseas with the Highland Light Infantry in the
occupation of Germany. [ Image Details ] | Joe Turnbull
Corporal in the 12th Canadian Tank Regiment. [ Image Details ] |
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Turnbull Brothers
From left to right: Joe, Bill, and Gordon Turnbull in Italy on the road
to Ortona. The brothers fought in the same regiment of the First
Canadian Tank Brigade overseas. [ Image Details ] | Cameron Barret Very
Served in Burma as Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Harold (left) and Edward (right) Waller
In England. Ed (right) first joined the 48th Highlanders, then
transferred to the Lorne Scots to go overseas. Harold also went
overseas with the Lorne Scots. [ Image Details ] | G.R. Watson
3rd Division Stormont, Dundas and Glengary Highlanders, D Company.
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Sergeant Maurice E. "Moss" Webb
Enlisted in the RCAF in 1942. Awarded Wireless Air Gunner's Wing in
1943. Died following an emergency operation. Maurice is commemorated on
the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] | Denis Whitaker
Served with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. Awarded two
Distinguished Service Orders. Appointed commander of the 3rd Canadian
Infantry Brigade, retiring with the rank of Brigadier-General in 1951. [ Image Details ] |
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John Wilson
Flight Sergeant killed in World War II. John is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll.
[ Image Details ] | Jack Wyndham
In Boucherville, Quebec, 1942. Radio Navigator for the Royal Air Force Ferry Command.
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John Maitland Young
Wing Commander (pilot) with #10 North Atlantic Squadron, Gander,
Newfoundland. Killed September 4, 1943, at the age of 31. School
1939-1945 Honour Roll. [ Image Details ] |