Colombie-Britannique

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HMCS ESQUIMALT
BUILT IN SOREL, QUEBEC.  COMMISSIONED: 25,10,42.  PAID OFF: 16,04,45  LENGTH: 162 FT. BREADTH: 28 FT. DRAFT: 8 FT., 3 IN. DISPLACEMENT:
595 TONNES SPEED: 16 KNOTS ARMAMENT: 1-12 POUNDER, 2 OERLIKONS,
2 DEPTHCHARGE THROWERS, 1 RAIL, 1 POM POM. SHIPS COMPLEMENT:
6 OFFICERS, 77 RATINGS. SHE WAS SUNK BY THE U.190 ON THE 16TH DAY
OF APRIL 1945. THE LAST NAVAL SHIP TO BE SUNK IN W.W.II.

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BODIES NOT RECOVERED AND
LISTED ON THE CENOTAPH AT
POINT PLEASANT PARK MEMORIAL
HALIFAX, N.S.

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POOL RALPH B
BLAND JOHN B
CONN JAMES R
HUGHES DAVID A
LEROUX LEO J
PARKER JACK R
PEDDIE ROY N
WARE WILLIAM J

SMART JOHN

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GRANAHAN EDWARD J
BELLAZZIO JOSEPH F
CLANCY GREGORY J
FANNING HUNTLEY A
GALLAGHER ANTHONY
FITZPATRICK WILLIAM
HEDSTROM ARNOLD D
JACQUES CARLTON J
LEDREW FREDERICK

PARTINGTON RICHARD

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PORTER JOHN C
DEVINS JAMES E
KNOWLES JOHN C
ROBERTS JAMES E
SMITH KENNETH H
STANLEY JAMES C
STAFFORD JOHN H

TRUDEL JOSEPH R

SHAVE CHESLEY N

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SHIPS COMPANY OF
HMCS ESQUIMALT ON
APRIL 16, 1945.

SHIPS COMPANY OF
HMCS ESQUIMALT ON
APRIL 16, 1945.

LIST OF THE SURVIVORS:

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MAC MILLAN RC
KAZACOFF MIKE
SMITH FRANK W
HOOK WALTER
ROWE KENNETH
KIDD THOMAS
WARE JACK
SARGEANT JACK
MC GRATH KEN

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MAC DONALD DUNCAN T
CAMPBELL ALBERT
HENDERSON WILLIAM J
BEXRUD KENNETH
MANUAL TERRENCE
HILLIER NORMAN
MARCELLES ALLAN
RAMSEY WILLIAM
SCHWENGER ARTHUR

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DEMPSTER EDWARD
AITKEN ROBERT
WILSON JOSEPH
BRUCE CAMPBELL
THOMAS DONALD
RICHARDS FRANK
MURPHY HERBERT
MIMEE FRED
MEYERS MONTY

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DURING SIX HOURS OF
COLD, WET EXPOSURE, SIXTEEN
CREWMEMBERS PERISHED. THE
BODIES ARE INTERRED IN GRAVESITES
CHOSEN BY THE NEXT OF KIN.

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DOWNIE BRYAN
BERGE OLAF E
WHITE DONALD

ZBARSKY RALPH

KYMAN ALBERT

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MC CONNEL LAWRENCE
MC INTYRE THOMAS J
WHITE HEAD BRUCE M
DUCHARME JOSEPH R
DUNLOP RONALD E

MONAGHAM JOHN M

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CARLSEN HARVEY M
JOHNSTON HOWARD E
EADIE CLIFFORD J
EDWARDS CHARLES

KNIGHT HERBERT R

War: A Family Affair

Commemoration of soldiers and nurses lost in the Great War takes various forms: names inscribed on war graves and monuments in Flanders and France, names engraved on Memorial Crosses awarded in memory of the fallen, named carved on the face of community cenotaphs and family headstones from one end of Canada to the other.

Two stone monuments - the community war memorial at Kettle Valley, B.C., and a family marker in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria - reflect the price Canadian families paid for the combined war effort of fathers, sons and daughters.

Two families, six members lost to war: a toll familiar to families across Canada.

The Oliver Family

Just Thirty-one people are listed among the fallen of Kettle Valley but four surnames are repeated. One of those names is Oliver.

Some 549 Canadians died in the Battle of Second Ypres, April 24, 1915. Among those who fell that day was Sidney Oliver, 44. Killed the same day in the same action was William Oliver, 22. Sidney and William were father and son. Neither has a known grave: each is remembered on the great monument to the missing, the Menin Gate, Ypres.

Having lost her husband and son on the same dark day in 1915, Sophia Oliver would be bereaved again. On Easter Monday, 1917: a second son, James, 19, was killed in thebattle for Vimy Ridge.

The three Memorial Crosses awarded to Sophia Oliver would not make her unique: many other Canadian mothers received as many, some even more.

The Peters Family

A century of west coast weather has made the north-facing words inscribed on the Peters family marker at Ross Bay illegible. But memory endures. An early volunteer, John Franklyn 'Jack' Peters, 22, died in the same action - Second Ypres - that killed Sidney and William Oliver. Fourteen months later, in June 1916, Jack's brother Gerald, 21, died in the Battle of Mont Sorrel.

Like Sidney and William Oliver, neither Peters brother has a known grave. They too are commemorated on the Menin Gate.

A third Peters brother, 'Fritz', served with great distinction, being awarded both the Distinguished Service Cross and Distinguished Service Order. Unlike his brothers, Fritz survived the Great War. When its sequel erupted in 1939 Fritz volunteered again. He was awarded the greatest of all British gallantry medals, the Victoria Cross, but died in an air crash shortly afterward.

Women and the War

The Great War was not just a man's endeavour: Canadian women also played a vital role. Between 1914 and 1918 more than six hundred thousand men set aside their normal trades to serve as Canadian soldiers. In many cases it was women who took over the tasks soldiers left behind. Women worked in myriad roles previously considered men-only. In some cases these roles were directly related to war production: women helped manufacture munitions and military equipment.

Beatrice McNair

Some 2,800 nurses volunteered for war service; many worked in military hospitals close to the battlefields. Their work was demanding and dangerous. Courage was frequently demanded - and delivered. Beatrice McNair of Vancouver was one of nine nurses awarded the Military Medal for gallantry. Sixty-four nurses earned the Royal Red Cross First Class for exceptional devotion to duty.

Amelia Earhart

It wasn't just registered nurses who were keen to do their part for the war effort. Some two thousand Canadian women served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) as nursing assistants, cooks, war aides and the like.

One member of the Canadian VAD went on to world-wide fame: Amelia Earhart joined in Toronto and served until the end of the war.

Grace MacPherson

Most VAD women did their duty on the home front but some were determined to take a part closer to the front lines. Vancouver's Grace MacPherson succeeded in doing just that. She drove an ambulance, transported wounded soldiers and was as talented a mechanic as she was a driver.

Fifty-eight nurses - including two who served in the VAD - died in service during the war, twenty as a direct result of enemy action.

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CORONEL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF
MIDSHIPMAN  MALCOLM CANN            R.C.N.
MIDSHIPMAN  JOHN V.W. HATHEWAY  R.C.N.
MIDSHIPMAN  WILLIAM A. PALMER      R.C.N
MIDSHIPMAN  ARTHUR W. SILVER       R.C.N.

MEMBERS OF THE FIRST CLASS OF
THE ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE OF CANADA
LOST IN ACTION AT CORONEL
ON 1 NOV. 1914

OPENED BY THE HONOURABLE WALTER S. OWEN QC., LLD.
LT. GOV. OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
1 NOV. 1974

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TRUTH DUTY VALOUR

ROYAL ROADS MILITARY COLLEGE
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 1990

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H.M.C.S.
ROYAL ROADS

HMCS ROYAL ROADS
1940  1942

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R.C.N.C.

ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL COLLEGE
1942  1947

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RCN-RCAF COLLEGE
1947  1948

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TRUTH, DUTY, VALOUR

ROYAL ROADS MILITARY COLLEGE
1948

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TRUTH DUTY VALOUR

ROYAL ROADS MILITARY COLLEGE
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 1990

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MILITARY COLLEGES AT ROYAL ROADS
COLLÈGES MILITAIRES À ROYAL ROADS

HMCS ROYAL ROADS
1940 - 42

ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL COLLEGE
1942 - 47

RCN/RCAF JOINT SERVICES COLLEGE
1947 - 48

CANADIAN SERVICES COLLEGE ROYAL ROADS
1948 - 67

ROYAL ROADS MILITARY COLLEGE
1967 - 95

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MEMORY ROADS 

(2001 stone/pierre de 2001)

ROYAL ROADS
HOMECOMING
2001

TRUTH       LIVING
DUTY         OUR
VALOUR     LEARNING

ROYAL ROADS
UNIVERSITY

(2002 stone/pierre de 2002)

ROYAL ROADS HOMECOMING
Remember & Renew
in 2002
The Class of 1952

In Memory of Officers, Cadets, Learners,
Staff and Faculty of Royal Roads

May 24-26, 2002

(2003 stone/pierre de 2003)

ROYAL ROADS
HOMECOMING 2003

Confirming our
commitment
to education and friendship

Class of 1953   Class of 1963

ROYAL ROADS
UNIVERSITY

(2004 stone/pierre de 2004)

ROYAL ROADS
UNIVERSITY
HOMECOMING
2004

A Tradition of Leadership

CSCRR CLASS OF 1949      RRMC CLASS OF 1984
RRMC CLASS OF 1964       RRMC CLASS OF 1994
RRMC CLASS OF 1969   RRU MALT CLASS OF 1997

(2008 stone/pierre de 2008)

ROYAL ROADS
UNIVERSITY

HOMECOMING
2008

Past, Present, Future
Together Strong

ROYAL ROADS
NAVAL AND MILITARY COLLEGES

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ROLL OF HONOUR
1914-1918

GEORGE POWELL
MARTIN GOODALL
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
HARRY RICHARDSON
JOHN ERSKINE
CURTIS C. TRENCHARD
ALEC HUGHES
ISAAC GOUDIE
EMMOTT SNOWDEN
HARRY GORDON
A.J. NICKSON
LIONEL R. WALKER
MORRIS CULL

PHILIP B. SNAPE

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1939-1945

VICTOR BRAILSFORD
REGINALD CAFFERY
WILLIAM DUNCAN
JOHN GATES
ELMO GEDDES
STEWART KITCHING
GEORGE LORIMER
ROBERT MUGFORD
VICTOR SYRETT
JOHN WALKER

GEORGE WOODHAMS

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IN LOVING MEMORY
OF THE MEN FROM SOOKE
WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR

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CANADIAN MERCHANT NAVY
MARINE MARCHANDE CANADIENNE
1914-18  1939-45  1950-53
THE                       POUR LA
LIFE LINE               SURVIE
OF THE                 DU MONDE
WORLD                    LIBRE

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KOREA
1950-1953

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THE PEACEKEEPERS
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

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LEST
WE
FORGET

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IN MEMORY OF
THE FALLEN
1914-1918 1939-1945
WARS

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KOREA 1950-1953

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In Memory of
ROBERT HUGH HARRIS
8TH BATT.
DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S REGIMENT
WHO FELL IN ACTION AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
SEPT. 28, 1916