My mother was a teenager living in Hoek Van Holland during the war. She tells me stories of the hardship during the war and how her little town was inhabited by the German army. There was fear, hunger, and uncertainty about the future. When Holland was liberated by the Canadians, she tells me that there...Read More

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

Dad was a welder who worked in a small town in Nova Scotia on the Atlantic Ocean, heading a crew who repaired damage done to ships crossing the Atlantic with troops and supplies.Read More

Lieutenants William Edward O’Donnell and Wolf William Solkin of the Algonquin Regiment, R.C.I.C., helped liberate Holland in 1945. My dear friend, Lt. (Ret’d) Wolf Wm Solkin is in his 97th year and resides at Ste. Anne’s Hospital in Quebec. As Wolf no longer has a garden to tend to, I will be planting these Royal...Read More