1974 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother – Annie Margaret Rudd

(Photo: Smiths Falls Public Library)

(Photo: Library and Archives Canada 4887018)

Mrs. Annie Rudd of Stettler, Alberta, was the 1974 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1974, 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 October 9, 1943 her son, Sergeant Francis Rudd, was killed in Hanover, Germany while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

On September 19, 1944, a second son, Sapper Thomas William Rudd, was killed in France while serving with the Royal Canadian Engineers.

Mrs. Rudd married Thomas Rudd, Sr. He was an Imperial veteran, having served in the First World War with the British Forces. He was seriously wounded in 1917 and awarded a Military Medal. Their son, Albert John, served with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and was wounded in Italy in 1944. Their grandson, Jack, also served with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, years later.

List of National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mothers

(Information courtesy of the Royal Canadian Legion, Canadian War Museum and families of the National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mothers)

2010 - Present

Year	Name	City/Town
2024	Mrs. Maureen Anderson	Oromocto, New Brunswick
2023	Mrs. Gloria Hooper	St. Claude, Manitoba
2022	Mrs. Candy Greff	Lacombe, Alberta
2021	Mrs. Josée Simard	Les Mechins, Quebec
2020	Mrs. Debra Sullivan	Saint John, New Brunswick
2019	Mrs. Reine Samson Dawe	St-Prosper, Québec
2018	Mrs. Anita Cenerini	Winnipeg, Manitoba
2017	Mrs. Diana Abel	Brampton, Ontario
2016	Mrs. Colleen Fitzpatrick	Prince George, British Columbia
2015	Mrs. Sheila Anderson	Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
2014	Mrs. Gisèle Michaud	Edmundston, New Brunswick
2013	Mrs. Niki Psiharis	Laval, Quebec
2012	Mrs. Roxanne Priede	Grand Forks, British Columbia
2011	Mrs. Patricia Braun	Raymore, Saskatchewan
2010	Mrs. Mabel Girouard	Bathurst, New Brunswick

1990 - 2009

Year	Name	City/Town
2009	Mrs. Della Marie Morley	East Saint Paul, Manitoba
2008	Mrs. Avril Dianna Stachnik	Waskatenau, Alberta
2007	Mrs. Wilhelmina Beerenfenger-Koehler	Embrun, Ontario
2006	Mrs. Alice Murphy	Conception Harbour, Newfoundland
2005	Mrs. Claire Léger	Stittsville, Ontario
2004	Mrs. Agatha Dyer	Montreal, Québec
2003	Mrs. Charlotte Lynn Smith	Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
2002	Mrs. Doreen Coolen	Hubbards, Nova Scotia
2001	Mrs. Ina Galvin	Bolton centre, Québec
2000	Mrs. Carol Isfeld	Courtenay, British Columbia
1999	Mrs. Loyola Helen Park	London, Ontario
1998	Mrs. Anna Zuk (Prygroski)	Winnipeg, Manitoba
1997	Mrs. Alice Taylor	Ottawa, Ontario
1996	Mrs. Margaret Langille	River John, Nova Scotia
1995	Mrs. Elsie Wells	Edmonton, Alberta
1994	Mrs. Wilhelmina Baerr	Yorkton, Saskatchewan
1993	Mrs. Isabella Hutchings	St. John’s, Newfoundland
1992	Mrs. Ida Orser	Hartland, New Brunswick
1991	Mrs. Alice Taylor	Ottawa, Ontario
1990	Mrs. Elsie Pearce	Trenton, Ontario

1970 - 1989

Year	Name	City/Town
1989	Mrs. Rachel Morin	Rimouski, Quebec
1988	Mrs. Hazel Driscoll	Halifax, Nova Scotia
1987	Mrs. Secondina Di Persio	Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
1986	Mrs. Mabel Bateman	Richmond Hill, Ontario
1985	Mrs. Rose Bernst	Thunder Bay, Ontario
1984	Mrs. Olive (Rumball) Hunter	Summerland, British Columbia
1983	Mrs. Constance Wylie	Vancouver, British Columbia
1982	Mrs. Janet Fraser	Debert, Nova Scotia
1981	Mrs. Isabel Harrison	Bury, Quebec
1980	Mrs. Greta Steeves	Elgin, Albert County, New Brunswick
1979	Mrs. Eliza Beatty	Carlyle, Saskatchewan
1978	Mrs. Janet Cantley	Montreal, Quebec
1977	Mrs. Mary Boutilier	Niagara Falls, Ontario
1976	Mrs. Olive Rae (Jubb)	Victoria, British Columbia
1975	Mrs. Alta Wilkinson	Ottawa, Ontario
1974	Mrs. Annie Margaret Rudd	Stettler, Alberta
1973	Mrs. Margaret Santo	Bender, Saskatchewan
1972	Mrs. Mary Louise McLeod	Neyaashiinigmiing, Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation
1971	Mrs. Mary Anderson	Selkirk, Manitoba
1970	Mrs. Mary Josephine Meech	North Sydney, Nova Scotia

1950 - 1969

Year	Name	City/Town
1969	Mrs. Wilhemina Gray	Vancouver, British Columbia
1968	Mrs. Pearl Rich	Vancouver, British Columbia
1967	Mrs. Elsie Adams	St. Catharines, Ontario
1966	Mrs. Josephine Stephens	Toronto, Ontario
1965	Mrs. Nora Wagner	Teeterville, Ontario
1964	Mrs. Bernadette Rivait	Windsor, Ontario
1963	Mrs. Mary E. Stodgell	Norwood, Manitoba
1962	Mrs. Vitaline Lanteigne	Caraquet, New Brunswick
1961	Mrs. Sylvia Kimmel	Mission City, British Columbia
1960	Mrs. Julienne Cantin	McCreary, Manitoba
1959	Mrs. Dagnie Asta Anderson	Craigmyle, Alberta
1958	Mrs. Helen Forestell	Coniston, Ontario
1957	Mrs. Zylpha MacFarlane	Truro, Nova Scotia
1956	Mrs. Gertrude Edna Reynolds	Chatham, Ontario
1955	Mrs. Regina Leboldus	Vibank, Saskatchewan
1954	Mrs. Margaret Heeney	Ottawa, Ontario
1953	Mrs. Mary Casey	Ottawa, Ontario
1952	Mrs. Hannah McCann	Ottawa, Ontario
1951	Mrs. Alice Rochon	Ottawa, Ontario
1950	Mrs. Susan Beasley	Ottawa, Ontario

1936 - 1949

Year	Name	City/Town
1949	Mrs. Aline D'Aoust	Ottawa, Ontario
1948	Mrs. Catherine Helen MacDonald	Ottawa, Ontario
1947	Mrs. Martha Labarge	Ottawa, Ontario
1944 - 1946	Mrs. Jessie Isobel McCleery	Ottawa, Ontario
1943	Mrs. Edith Louisa Coldrey	Ottawa, Ontario
1942	Mrs. Sarah Wilkins Lamplough	Ottawa, Ontario
1937 - 1941	Mrs. Catherine Lewis	Ottawa, Ontario
1936	Mrs. Charlotte Susan Wood	Winnipeg, Manitoba

Date modified:: 2024-07-16