Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Attestation paper (1) – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Attestation paper (2) – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Owen Sound Sun Times October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of Joseph Harry Smith

Biography

Photo of Joseph "Harry" Smith – "Harry" Smith was a member of the 1938 Kamloops Klippers, B.C.'s Intermediate Box Lacrosse Champions.

Smith Family Photo - Circa 1939 - 40 – Back Row left to Right - Joseph Harry , RCAF - Florence - Norman - Vincent , RCN - Frank - Eileen -Wilbur , RCA Front Row - Ina - Father , Captain John Joseph Smith - Mother , Malvina Smith ( Pombert ) - Marie ."

Battle Street Cenotaph Memorial – Battle Street Cenotaph Memorial in Kamploops, British Columbia.

Inscription – Battle Street Cenotaph Memorial in Kamploops, British Columbia.

Lockheed Hudson

Joseph Harry Smith's training and aircraft

Medals – Pilot Officer Joseph Harry Smith's Medals

Description – Description of his medals.

RAF Squadron # 353 Badge – A Bengal Tiger rampant " Fear Naught in Unity "

353 ( RAF ) Squadron History

353 ( RAF ) Squadron History page 2

Memorial Cross

Newspaper Clipping – Glen Cowley wrote this two part series for the Kamloops newspaper . It appeared starting in the " Kamloops This Week " on Wednesday June 07 , 1995 . Glen Cowley is a Kamloops based historian and free-lance writer . The 1938 Championship Team was reported in depth by the newspaper of the time - The Kamloops Sentinel and Harry Smith was widely reported in the articles covering the team in those late 1930 years.

Newspaper Clipping 2

Newspaper Clipping 2 (Page 2)

City of Kamloops Medal – Medal awarded to the team Members of the 1938 B.C Intermediate Lacrosse Champions by the City of Kamloops.

Inscription – Inscription on the 1938 B.C. Intermediate Lacrosse Champions medal awarded by the City of Kamloops.

Kamloops Klippers – Harry Smith played centre for the Kamloops Klippers, British Columbia Intermediate Lacrosse Champions 1938.

Newspaper Aticle on the death of Harry Smith. – Kamloops Sentinel newspaper announcement on the death of P/O Joseph Harry Smith , August 13 , 1942 appeared on September 24 , 1942.

Harry Smith Lacrosse Career – Harry Smith's lacrosse career was appreciated by his opponents as well as his team mates as described in this circa 1948 Kamloops Sentinel newspaper article.

Proclamation – B.C. Proclamation regarding the Geographic designation of Smith Cove at Kamloops Lake , British Columbia

Location of Smith Cove – The 2004 Remembrance List released by the British Columbia government on November 11 , 2004 included a British Columbia feature named in memory of our uncle Pilot Officer Joseph Harry Smith. Smith Cove is located on the north shoreline of Kamloops Lake at 50*43'50"-120*33'35" in Lac du Bois Provincial Park just west of the Kamloops City western boundary near Tranquille. Also released was a proclamation issued jointly by " The Province of British Columbia and The Geographical Names Board of Canada " signed by the Honourable Gordon Campbell Premier of British Columbia.

War Memorial – Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD.

Inscription – Kamloops Cenotaph, British Columbia. Detail of the Tablet listing names for World War II.

Biography

Biography

Biography

Photo of William Shovlin