Military service
Service number:
E/30552
Age:
20
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 3, 1921
Midland, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 1, 1940
Sussex, New Brunswick
Death:
December 19, 1941
Lye Mun, Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 26.
Additional information
Son of John Oakley and Hannah Maud Halliwell, of Midland, Ontario.
He served in New Brunswick, in Newfoundland with Force W, in Québec, and in Hong Kong with Force C at the Regimental Aid Post à Lye Mun.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
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Photo of Raymond Oakley
In memory of the students from Midland High School who served during World War 11 and did not return. Photos submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me, on behalf of Midland Legion Branch 80 190 Queen St. Midland, Ontario. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Rifleman RAYMOND OAKLEY is one of 30 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. According to information compiled by Vincent Lopata and posted at the Hong Kong Veteran's Commorative Association website, Rifleman OAKLEY was murdered by the Japanese at the Salesian Massacre. http://www.cforce.hkvca.ca/battledeaths.htm -
Inscription
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Newspaper clipping
Rifleman RAYMOND OAKLEY was reported Previously Reported Wounded and Prisoner of War. Now Reported Missing in Action in the Canadian Army¿s 244th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 9, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Page from Orillia Soldiers Memorial Hospital's memorial binder
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Raymond Joseph Oakley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 40 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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