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This stained glass window is dedicated to the members of RCAF Station Uplands who gave their lives in the Second World War.

This stained glass window is dedicated to the members who gave their lives in the First and Second World War.

This bronze and brass plaque is dedicated to Lieutenant Colonel John Franklin Kidd, C.M.G., M.D., L.L.D. It was originally unveiled at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, Veterans’ Pavilion in 1944. In 1976, it was presented to the Canadian Forces Medical Services when the Veterans’ Pavilion was closed and later placed at the National Defence Medical Centre (NDMC), Veterans’ Wing. With the amalgamation of the NDMC Veterans’ Wing, the Rideau Veterans’ Health Hospital and the Perley Home, the bronze plaque was transferred to the newly formed Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre in 1996.

This conference room in Major E.J.G. Holland, VC Armoury, named the Whitley Room, is dedicated to the memory of Officer Cadet W.J. (Bill) Whitley. Officer Cadet William James Whitley was born in May, 1964 in Calgary and joined 3 Field Engineer Squadron in Ottawa (renamed 33 Combat Engineer Regiment) in May, 1988.

On June 20, 1988, he was part of a group of 29 students of the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering (CFSME) in Chilliwack, who under the supervision of seven instructors, were completing their 3^rd day of explosives handling training at the Slesse Demolition Range. They were preparing cratering charges when something went terribly wrong, resulting in a massive explosion that killed six students, including Officer Cadet Whitley, and injured three others. Officer Cadet Whitley is interred at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa.

Billy Bishop Private was named in memory of Air Marshal William Avery “Billy” Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED. William Avery Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on 8 February 1894. During the outbreak of the Great War, he was a cadet at the Royal Military College, in Kingston. He enrolled in the 9th Mississauga Horse, Canadian Expedition Force, on 30 September 1914, and he later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps.

Bishop, who already had the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, became the first Canadian Airman to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his single-handed early morning attack on an enemy airfield near Cambrai, France. On 2 June 1917, he found seven aircraft on the ground; he attacked and destroyed three, and was later credited with the destruction of the remaining four aircraft. Bishop continued air operations until August 1917 and returned to the front in June 1918. He emerged as the British Empire’s second highest scoring ace, with 72 official victories.

In the Second World War Bishop was an Air Marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and assisted in recruiting. He later died in Palm Beach, United States, on 11 September 1956.

This woven tapestry is dedicated to Captain John Sheardown, CM.

John Vernon Sheardown was born in October 1924 in Sandwich, Ontario near Windsor. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at age 18 and flew scores of Lancaster bomber runs in the Second World War. After one run, he barely managed to limp his flack-riddled plane back to England. With the Lancaster losing power, he told his crew to bail out. He tried to wrestle the aircraft under control before opting to leap at the last minute. His chute barely had time to open and he broke both legs upon impact.

After the war, he joined Canada’s Foreign Service and worked for a short period in Ottawa before being posted to the Canadian High Commission in London, England. He had several overseas postings (Glasgow, New Delhi and Los Angeles) including Teheran, Iran (1978 – 1980) as a First Secretary at the Canadian Embassy at the time of the revolution. In November 1979, Mr. Sheardown played a crucial role in the rescue of six American diplomats and was awarded the Order of Canada in 1980. He died on December 30, 2012 at the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre in Ottawa.

The tapestry was donated to the Perley Rideau by Ron Hodgeson and Peter Dalton to the foundation Managing Director Daniel Clapin. Ambassador Ken Taylor during the 1979 "Canadian Caper" in Iraq later described John Sheardown: "He was a Canadian who not only was brave, heroic and an example of valour in the Canadian military during the Second World War, but then was a model public servant during peacetime."

This church organ was dedicated by the Holy Cross Parish in memory to those who gave their lives in service to their country.

This tree was unveiled on May 5, 1995 and is dedicated to Canadians killed in Second World War.

The school was erected by the City of Ottawa Public School Board, and was unveiled on November 21, 1963. It is dedicated to major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier PC, DSO, MC, CD. (1888-1967). Vanier was a Canadian soldier who served as Governor General of Canada. He was born and educated in Quebec. After obtaining a BA and a law degree, he served in the Canadian Army during the First World War on the European battlefields.

In 1918, while leading an attack on the village of Cherisy, he was shot in the chest and both legs, eventually losing one leg to his wounds. Subsequently, Vanier returned to Canada and remained in the military until the early 1930s, when he was posted to diplomatic missions in Europe. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Vanier rejoined toe military, commanding troops on the home front.

In 1942 he was promoted to the rank of major general, and made the Canadian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Yugoslavia, as well as the representative of the Canadian Government to the Free French all of which were governments in exile.

In 1959, he was appointed Governor General of Canada remaining in this post until his death in 1967. Vanier proved to be a popular governor general, with his war record earning respect from Canadians.

The City Of Ottawa erected Mountbatten Avenue in memory of Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS. Mountbatten was a British naval officer, who served in the Royal Navy as a midshipman during the First World War. He pursued his military career and education after the First World War and when war broke out in 1939, Mountbatten was appointed commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla.

In October 1941 Mountbatten became Chief of Combined Operations responsible for planning commando raids across the English Channel. He was, in large part, responsible for the planning and organization of the Raid at St. Nazaire in mid 1942 and pushed through the Dieppe Raid of August 1942. In October 1943, Mountbatten was appointed Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command (SEAC), a post he would hold until SEAC was disbanded in 1946. During this time, his command oversaw the recapture of Burma from the Japanese by General William Slim.

A Royal Canadian Sea Cadet corps (RCSCC #134 Admiral Mountbatten in Sudbury, Ontario) was named after him in 1946.