Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Paul Ford Keenleyside
In memory of:
Chief Radio Officer Paul Ford Keenleyside
June 15, 1943
Indian Ocean
Military Service
32
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Hoegh Silverdawn (Oslo, Norway)
Additional Information
June 3, 1911
Regina, Saskatchewan
Son of Clifford Benjamin Keenleyside and Emily Isbel Daly of Regina, Saskatchewan. Clifford served with the 95th Saskatchewan Rifles, the 7th London in Ontario and the 90th Winnipeg in Manitoba. In the First World War, he enlisted on 12 February 1916 with the 249th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served only in Canada and was demobilized on 13 February 1920 in Regina.
Commemorated on Page 164 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 23.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
Digital Collection
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Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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