Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Weldon Alexander Kidson
In memory of:
Leading Stoker Weldon Alexander Kidson
September 20, 1943
Military Service
A/1797
26
Navy
Royal Canadian Navy Reserve
H.M.C.S. St. Croix
Additional Information
Son of Harold F. and Maie Kidson, of Clam Bay, Nova Scotia; husband of Phyllis F. Kidson, of Victoria, British Columbia.
Commemorated on Page 177 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 7.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Photo of WELDON ALEXANDER KIDSON – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Cenotaph – In 1926, the Monument in Memory of Oyster Pond men who served in World War I was erected at the crossroads of the Main Highway and East Jeddore Road in Tangier, Nova Scotia. All members of the Orange Lodge approved of this Memorial. It was purchased from Alonzo Harpell. -
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Photo of Weldon Kidson – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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Photo – On 20 September 1943, while escorting convoy ON.202, south of Iceland, HMCS ST. CROIX was torpedoed and sunk by U-305. Sixty-five members of the ship's company perished. Five officers and seventy-six men were rescued by HMS ITCHEN, however, only two days later, the ITCHEN was also torpedoed by an enemy submarine. Only one ST. CROIX sailor survived.
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