Stuart was a good troop who succumbed to the demons that haunted him from his two tours. I will tend his grave when in Victoria this weekend. His Mum was the Silver Cross Mother at the Victoria Remembrance Day Ceremony over a few years and died of a broken heart last year.
Jonathan Couturier was a good childhood friend. We went to the same school, grew up together, and served together. He served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment (Vandoos), based in Valcartier, Québec. On September 17th, 2009, during his deployment on Roto 07 (1-09), while on patrol in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, his […]
I would like to enter a submission for my late Grandfather CWO William Rocky Lunan, who passed away this year on May 25th at the age of 96 years old. He enlisted in the Army on October 21st 1947 and served 37 years of service within the Royal Canadian Artillery. Some of his accomplishments to […]
Captain Hakan “Hawk” Haytaoglu dedicated 35 years to serving our country as a pilot in the RCAF of 426, 437, and 434 Squadrons, and also as Pilot Instructor. Proud husband to Maura-Jo Kennedy Haytaoglu and father to Drew and Hanna. We would like to honor him in the Remembrance Row because he has been a […]
Private John MacDonald served in with the Canadian Army during World War II, enlisting April 1943.
Clyde Sheppard was a veteran of the Second World War, having served with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as a medic and ambulance driver. He joined the Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 128 Whitney Pier) in 1948 and was president at the time of his death in 2012. Valour, responsibility, compassion, honour, dedication, gratitude – […]
Lt Maurice Jaques joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.) in 1915. He returned to France in 1916 with the 13th Battalion C.E.F., also known as The Royal Highlanders of Canada. On September 3rd, 1916, he led a small advance party on a reconnoitering mission of a German trench located at the Mouquet Farm in La […]
Master Corporal Donald Raymond Carver, CD Born in 1935 in Hamilton ON, MCpl Carver enrolled in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1953 and received postings to Chatham NB, Marville France, Comox BC, Ottawa ON, North Bay ON, Bagotville QC and finally, Greenwood NS, where after 24 years in the RCAF, he retired as a […]
Private 1st Class Malcolm Frederick Barnett, D Coy, North Shore Regiment Born in 1921 in Lancaster (Saint John), NB, Pte Barnett enrolled in the Canadian Army in 1940 and was a member of the North Shore Regiment from New Brunswick. As part of a 3-person mortar crew within D Coy, Pte Barnett trained in Scotland […]
My father eagerly enlisted as a teenager in 1942, completing initial training with the Royal Canadian Engineers, then receiving his army training, shipping out as a member of the Perth Regiment, with whom he served until 1946. While he talked little about his active time at the front, the stories he told were meant to […]
