WWII Veteran Joyce Gwendyl Paynter (nee Andrews) of Charlottetown was a private in the Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Women’s Army Corps assigned to the 43rd company out of Canada’s military headquarters in London during the Second World War. She married Arthur Paynter in 1943 while volunteering with the British Red Cross and without yet setting...Read More

My mom survived the bombing in Rotterdam half he house was gone when she came home from work!Read More

Sargeant Ross Dickie was my uncle whom I never knew. He was an air gunner with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He died on August 30, 1944, along with three other crew members, when their Whitley bomber exploded and disintegrated over Scotland. He died five months before his older brother, Captain Richard Dickie, who was...Read More

Captain Dickie was my maternal uncle, an older brother to my mother. I never had the opportunity to know him. By supporting the Liberation 75 campaign, I am honouring his memory and service. He died on January 29, 1945 at the age of twenty-one. My uncle was killed in action while leading his company against...Read More