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IN MEMORY OF
JOHN STANLEY WOODS, M.C.
CAPTAIN
PRINCESS PATRICIA'S CANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRY
DIED APRIL 7TH 1932
"EXSTINCTUS AMABITUR IDEM"

IN MEMORY
OF
HARRY PINNER, A.B.
H. M. S. EGERIA
DROWNED AT NANAIMO
8TH JUNE, 1899
AGED 23 YEARS.

ERECTED BY THE SHIPS COMPANY,
AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM AND RESPECT.

IN MEMORY OF
CAPT. JAMES RICHARDSON FRANCIS,
PRINCESS PATRICIA'S CANADIAN LIGHT INFANTRY
DIED 12TH DECEMBER, 1929

AT ONE TIME
WARDEN OF THIS PARISH

ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS
WORK POINT BARRACKS

British Columbia's Sacrifice

The BC Volunteer Effort
In per capital terms British Columbia's contribution to Canada's war effort of 1914-1918 was among the greatest of the provinces. More than 47,000 BC men and women volunteered for overseas service

James Richardson, 20

Many of the volunteers never returned home. One who remains forever part of the soil of France is James Richardson, 20, 0f Chilliwack, a piper who bravely rallied the men of the 16th Battalion at Regina Trench on the Somme in October 1916. Richardson was awarded the Victoria Cross for his valour but he never knew it: the piper's performance was his last. He was never seen again.

Gladys Wake, 34

It was not just men and boys who died in the war. Women did too. Nursing Sister Gladys Wake of Victoria was killed in May 1918 when enemy bombs fell on her hospital at Etaples on the French Coast.

Thomas Tombs, 16

At least 225 of the British Columbia fallen were teenagers. Thomas Tombs of Duncan was 16 when he was killed in action while on duty in the 50th Battalion, November 16.

Christina Campbell, 40

Christina Campbell of Vancouver was one of fourteen nurses who died in June 1918 when their hospital ship, the Llandovery Castle, was torpedoed by German U-Boat.

Alfred Gyde Heaven, 18
Awarded the Military Medal for gallantry, Alfred Gyde Heaven of Grand Forks was seriously wounded at Vimy Ridge and died of his wounds 21 April 1917. He was 18.

It was the intention of those who conceived the Shelbourne Memorial Avenue to plant a tree for every British Columbian who died in the war. Hundreds of London Planetrees were planted. But hundreds were not enough. More than 6,000 British Columbians perished in the war.

IN MEMORIAM
TO THOSE
OF H.M. NAVAL FORCES
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919

THEIR NAME LIVETH
FOR EVERMORE

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
GEORGE MERRITT,
MUSICIAN OF H. M. S. ICARUS,
ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED AT VANCOUVER
JULY 3RD 1898, AGED 46.
ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS & MEN
AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM & RESPECT.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.

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"This oak was planted to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee and in perpetual memory of the Old Contemptibles 1914-1974. We Will Remember Them."

Roll of Honour
November 17th, 1943
EX-PUPILS OF THIS SCHOOL WHOSE
LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST IN FORCES:

Peter Piddington, Royal Oak
Thomas Watt, Fraser
William Gagnon, Fraser
Jack Burnett, Margaree
David Frankham, Margaree
Victor Carter, Margaree
Jack Williams, Margaree
Stanley Day, Margaree
Donald Wilson, Ottawa
Robin Frame, Air Force
James Codville, Air Force
Jack Cunningham, Air Force
George Newman, Air Force
Ian Sutherland-Brown
Tom Redhead, Hong Kong
Bob Williamson, Died of illness contracted overseas
Douglas McIntyre Killed In Sicily
Reginald Gray, Lost at sea in Merchant Marine
Arthur Rycroft, Prisoner of War
Reginald Caffery
Daniel Edward Newell
Edgar Cookman, Athabaska
Charles Sweet, Athabaska (missing)
Forbes McIntosh
Ernest Mills, Athabaska (missing)
Joe Bailey
J. Piddington
D. Hopkins
J. Besonnette
J. Williams
M. Aylmer
J. Moncton
J. Auchterlonie

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Greater Love hath no man
than this, that a man lay down
his life for his friends
St. Johns XV.13

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1914 - 1918

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

A.W. AGNEW
S.D. ANDROS
A. ATKINS
N. BARLOW
J.C. BANKS
H. BELL
H. BROWN
H. BRAY
B. CAMPBELL
S. CHICK
J. COTTON
J.W.D. DOWLER
J. ERSKINE
A.A. GERON
J.W. GIBSON
A. GUEST
W.C. HAMILTON
C.M. HARDIE
C.T. HINCH
W. HOLE
J. HOLMAN
N. LYNE
R. McCALLUM
D.N. McINTYRE
A. MILLER
G. MILLER
J. MULLEN
H.J. NANKIVELL
J. PARSONAGE
H.J.S. PAUL
G. PETERS
J. PETERS
F.G. PEARCE
H. PRESCOTT
W.H. ROBERTSON
H.V. ROMBOUGH
H. SAVAGE
C. SEDGER
F.C. SLAVIN
A.E. SMITH
C. McF. STEWART
L. STEWART
G. STUBBS
A. WALTON
B. WEIR
W.D. WHEELER
J.P. WHEELER
A.V. WHITTIER
E.A. WILKINSON
H.C. WITMER

G.M.M. WAKE

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This Shrine was erected August 1917
by residents of Esquimalt and friends
in Grateful Remembrance, and in
Admiration of Gallant Men.

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MORE THINGS ARE WROUGHT
BY PRAYER THAN
THIS WORLD DREAMS OF.

[Lists of battles and names are listed, but are not clear in the photo./Les listes de batailles et de noms sont inscrits, mais ne sont pas claires sur la photo.]