Trooper Josh Gordon Coutts joined the Fort Garry Horse regiment in Winnipeg, Manitoba on the 26th of June, 1917 and was discharged in Winnipeg on June 2, 1919. According to his daughter Dorothy’s recollections he said: “I never drew my sword or fired a shot” and also that “The only French I ever heard Dad utter was: ‘Voulez-vous […]
Willis Crooks was born on April 13, 1925 in Grenville Quebec. WWII: June 12, 1943 he enlisted in the Navy, trained as a seaman gunner for defensively equipped merchant ships in the North Atlantic. Spent his time as Gunner on Merchant ships in the Atlantic until the end of war. Passed away on November 3rd, […]
In Memory of Pilot Officer C. Alvin Elliott, 419 Sqn. RCAF. Killed while on operations over Germany, 21 March 1945. Lest We Forget
My grandfather, Henry Bramwell (Bram) Chandler served overseas in World War II with the Canadian Army. In 1945, following training he became an Intelligence Officer in the Canadian Infantry Corps and was assigned with the First Canadian Army on 3 May and the 2nd Canadian Corps on 9 May until 19 June. He subsequently was […]
Service dates 1984 – 2008 A supply tech, a Load master, a baseball player, an umpire, a hockey player, a referee, a husband, a brother, a father, and a friend. He often said he was on a CF sports scholarship yet his time at the Sqn was his most cherished because “I got to see […]
This a photo of my great uncle Dickie , Richard Clark (Sgt) and his sister my great aunt Tene, Christene (Lft.) Clark. They ran into each other in France in WW2. They did not know where each other was. So big surprise. There almost was some trouble when another officer saw this picture being taken […]
Our mother joined the RCAF during WWII and served as an Aircraftwoman at a radar station on Vancouver Island. She met our father Pilot Officer Cecil Baldwin DFC when they both, as veterans, attended the University of Saskatchewan after the war. Thanks to their service they attended university, met, married, had four children and many […]
Dr. John de Belle was a Surgeon Commander in the Royal Canadian Navy and served during World War II.
Sergeant James Leonard Townson went overseas in September 1942 with the 48th Highlanders of Canada. He first served in Italy as a “D-Day Dodger” and was later KIA during Operation CANNONSHOT, which included the liberation of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. He was killed on 13 April 1945, aged 25, just northeast of the town of […]
