Leading Aircraftsman CANR16151. He may have even serviced his future in future father in laws 💣 bomber in bomber command who was a tail gunner and shot down over Belgium.He married his daughter and brought her back to Canada.Read More

My Dad Enlisted June 1940 at Halifax in the Second Great European War. Halifax Rifles 23rd Army Tank Regt.Read More

David Henry Austin , my great uncle , was. Cpl in WW1 15 Battilion , Canadian Infantry , Central Ontario Regiment. Son of Harry and Lizzie Austin, of Croydon, Surrey. He was killed, May 21 1915 at the battle of Festubert . He was a stretcher bearer and was killed by enemy fire , taking...Read More

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Canadian since 1949, Mrs. Shirley Richardson, whose second brother Lt. Ralph Bonfoy Rooper DSC, RN was in a Motor Torpedo boat off the coast of Holland when it was destroyed by the German Navy in 1944. His body was washed up onto the beach of Bergen-Aan-Zee and was buried in the beautiful Commonwealth War Graves...Read More

Lt.-Col. Lockhart R. Fulton, who hailed from Birtle, MB., led his regiment, the 1st Battalion, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, in the Scheldt Estuary campaign. The Canadians who fought in the Battle of the Scheldt played a key role in the liberation of the Netherlands and the end of the Second World War in Europe.Read More

As a teenaged boy, my father, Bram Griffioen, led Jews and others in hiding to safe houses in and around Veenendaal for the Resistance during 1944-45. He would memorise addresses and people would follow at a short distance behind him. When he came to an address he would turn his head and nod. Those following...Read More