Mrs. Olive Rae (Jubb) from Edmonton, Alberta, was chosen 1976 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1976, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.

On June 25, 1944, her son, Pilot Officer Harold Oliver Rae, was shot down over France and killed while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

On March 16, 1945, a second son, Pilot Officer Leslie Elmer Rae, died when his Lancaster bomber disappeared over Germany while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

A third son, Albert Thomas Rae, served in the Royal Canadian Navy throughout the Battle of the Atlantic and survived the war.