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Roll of Honour
November 17th, 1943
EX-PUPILS OF THIS SCHOOL WHOSE
LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST IN FORCES:

Peter Piddington, Royal Oak
Thomas Watt, Fraser
William Gagnon, Fraser
Jack Burnett, Margaree
David Frankham, Margaree
Victor Carter, Margaree
Jack Williams, Margaree
Stanley Day, Margaree
Donald Wilson, Ottawa
Robin Frame, Air Force
James Codville, Air Force
Jack Cunningham, Air Force
George Newman, Air Force
Ian Sutherland-Brown
Tom Redhead, Hong Kong
Bob Williamson, Died of illness contracted overseas
Douglas McIntyre Killed In Sicily
Reginald Gray, Lost at sea in Merchant Marine
Arthur Rycroft, Prisoner of War
Reginald Caffery
Daniel Edward Newell
Edgar Cookman, Athabaska
Charles Sweet, Athabaska (missing)
Forbes McIntosh
Ernest Mills, Athabaska (missing)
Joe Bailey
J. Piddington
D. Hopkins
J. Besonnette
J. Williams
M. Aylmer
J. Moncton
J. Auchterlonie

[stele – top/stèle, en haut]

Greater Love hath no man
than this, that a man lay down
his life for his friends
St. Johns XV.13

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1914 - 1918

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

A.W. AGNEW
S.D. ANDROS
A. ATKINS
N. BARLOW
J.C. BANKS
H. BELL
H. BROWN
H. BRAY
B. CAMPBELL
S. CHICK
J. COTTON
J.W.D. DOWLER
J. ERSKINE
A.A. GERON
J.W. GIBSON
A. GUEST
W.C. HAMILTON
C.M. HARDIE
C.T. HINCH
W. HOLE
J. HOLMAN
N. LYNE
R. McCALLUM
D.N. McINTYRE
A. MILLER
G. MILLER
J. MULLEN
H.J. NANKIVELL
J. PARSONAGE
H.J.S. PAUL
G. PETERS
J. PETERS
F.G. PEARCE
H. PRESCOTT
W.H. ROBERTSON
H.V. ROMBOUGH
H. SAVAGE
C. SEDGER
F.C. SLAVIN
A.E. SMITH
C. McF. STEWART
L. STEWART
G. STUBBS
A. WALTON
B. WEIR
W.D. WHEELER
J.P. WHEELER
A.V. WHITTIER
E.A. WILKINSON
H.C. WITMER

G.M.M. WAKE

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This Shrine was erected August 1917
by residents of Esquimalt and friends
in Grateful Remembrance, and in
Admiration of Gallant Men.

[old memorial inscriptions/anciennes inscriptions commemoratives]

MORE THINGS ARE WROUGHT
BY PRAYER THAN
THIS WORLD DREAMS OF.

[Lists of battles and names are listed, but are not clear in the photo./Les listes de batailles et de noms sont inscrits, mais ne sont pas claires sur la photo.]

[front/devant]

LEST WE FORGET
THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL COLLEGE
HMCS ROYAL ROADS
1941-1947
KILLED IN ACTION
1939-1945
LT. M.S. GRANT
SLT. R.H. McCONNELL
SLT. R.L. ROSS
LT. J.M. WALKLEY
LT. G.A. McLACHLAN
LT. M.D.S. RUSSELL
SLT. W.E. SHIELDS
LT. G.B. WRIGHTS

LT. R.I.L. ANNETT

DONATED BY
THE RCN COLLEGE
CLASS OF 1946
UNVEILED 1972

[left side/côté gauche]

THE RCN-RCAF
JOINT SERVICES
COLLEGE
1947 - 1948

[back/arrière]

THE CANADIAN
SERVICES COLLEGE
ROYAL ROADS
1948 - 1969

KOREA
1950 - 1953
LT. A.G. HERMAN

[right side/côté droit]

ROYAL ROADS
MILITARY COLLEGE
1969
1995

[large plaque/grande plaque]

ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL
SHIPS LOST DURING
"BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC"
1939-1945

SAILORS' WALK

[plaque]

FRASER
25.6.40

[plaque]

BRAS D'OR
19.10.40

[plaque]

MARGAREE
22.10.40

[plaque]

OTTER
26.3.41

[plaque]

LEVIS
20.9.41

[plaque]

WINDFLOWER
7.12.41

[plaque]

SPIKENARD
11.2.42

[plaque]

RACCOON
7.9.42

[plaque]

CHARLOTTETOWN
11.9.42

[plaque]

OTTAWA
14.9.42

[plaque]

LOUISBURG
6.2.43

[plaque]

WEYBURN
22.2.43

[plaque]

ST. CROIX
29.9. 43

[plaque]

CHEDABUCTO
21.10.43

[plaque]

ATHABASKAN
29.4.44

[plaque]

VALLEYFIELD
7.5.44

[plaque]

REGINA
8.8.44

[plaque]

ALBERNI
21.8.44

[plaque]

SKEENA
25.10.44

[plaque]

SHAWINIGAN
24.11.44

[plaque]

CLAYOQUOT
24.12.44

[plaque]

TRENTONIAN
22.2.45

[plaque]

GUYSBOROUGH
17.3.45

[plaque]

ESQUIMALT
16.4.45

No inscription/aucune inscription

[front plaque/plaque de devant]

TO THE MEMORY OF
THOSE RESIDENTS
OF ESQUIMALT WHO
LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
IN THE SERVICE OF
THE EMPIRE DURING
THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918

WORLD WAR II
1939-1945

KOREAN WAR
1951-1953

THE TORCH BE YOURS
TO HOLD IT HIGH


CANADIAN MERCHANT NAVY
1914-1918
1939-1945
1950-1953

LIFELINE
OF THE
WORLD

[WWI plaque]

IN MEMORY OF ESQUIMALT'S
WAR DEAD

1914-1919

[left column]

E.S. Wilkinson
A. Barton
J.W.D. Dowler
A. Guest
C.T. Hinch
N. Lyne
J. Mullin
G. Peters
H. Savage
A. Walton
A.V. Whittier
A.W. Agnew
W. Bray
J. Erskine
W.C. Hamilton
W. Hole

[right column]

A. Millar
H.J. Nankiveil
N. Prescott
C. Sedger
W.G. Wheeler
D. Wier
J.C. Banks
D. Campbell
J.W. Gibson
C.M. Hardie
J. Holman
G. Miller
F.G. Pearce
W.H. Robertson
A.E. Smith
J.P. Wheeler

[WWII plaque]

IN MEMORY OF ESQUIMALT'S
WAR DEAD

1938-1945

[left column]

J. Burnett
J. Auchterlonie
A. Crane
R. Frame
A. Knowles
E. Mills
R. Patterson
T. Redhead
E. Whitehouse
J. Williams
R.J. Williams
M. Aylmer
R. Caffery
J. Cunningham
D. Frankham
F. McIntosh
J. Moncton
A. Rycroft
B. Williamson
J. Bailey
V. Carter
S. Day
W. Gagnon
D. McIntyre
D.E. Newell
J. Piddington
P. Piddington
I. Sutherland-Brown
D. Wilson
H. Bischlager
J. Codville
N. Dunnett
R. Gray
P. McMaster
G. Newman
C.L. Potts
C. Sweet
M.C. Wood
J. Besonnette
E. Cookman
G. Elam
D. Hopkins
T. Melander
W.E. Nicholas
L. Prosser
T. Watt

[front/devant]

[upper plaque/plaque supérieure]

HMCS ESQUIMALT
BUILT IN SOREL, QUEBEC.  COMMISSIONED: 25,10,42.  PAID OFF: 16,04,45  LENGTH: 162 FT. BREADTH: 28 FT. DRAFT: 8 FT., 3 IN. DISPLACEMENT:
595 TONNES SPEED: 16 KNOTS ARMAMENT: 1-12 POUNDER, 2 OERLIKONS,
2 DEPTHCHARGE THROWERS, 1 RAIL, 1 POM POM. SHIPS COMPLEMENT:
6 OFFICERS, 77 RATINGS. SHE WAS SUNK BY THE U.190 ON THE 16TH DAY
OF APRIL 1945. THE LAST NAVAL SHIP TO BE SUNK IN W.W.II.

[lower plaque/plaque du bas]

BODIES NOT RECOVERED AND
LISTED ON THE CENOTAPH AT
POINT PLEASANT PARK MEMORIAL
HALIFAX, N.S.

[first column/première colonne]

POOL RALPH B
BLAND JOHN B
CONN JAMES R
HUGHES DAVID A
LEROUX LEO J
PARKER JACK R
PEDDIE ROY N
WARE WILLIAM J

SMART JOHN

[second column/deuxième colonne]

GRANAHAN EDWARD J
BELLAZZIO JOSEPH F
CLANCY GREGORY J
FANNING HUNTLEY A
GALLAGHER ANTHONY
FITZPATRICK WILLIAM
HEDSTROM ARNOLD D
JACQUES CARLTON J
LEDREW FREDERICK

PARTINGTON RICHARD

[third column/troisième colonne]

PORTER JOHN C
DEVINS JAMES E
KNOWLES JOHN C
ROBERTS JAMES E
SMITH KENNETH H
STANLEY JAMES C
STAFFORD JOHN H

TRUDEL JOSEPH R

SHAVE CHESLEY N

[left side/gauche]

SHIPS COMPANY OF
HMCS ESQUIMALT ON
APRIL 16, 1945.

SHIPS COMPANY OF
HMCS ESQUIMALT ON
APRIL 16, 1945.

LIST OF THE SURVIVORS:

[first column/première colonne]

MAC MILLAN RC
KAZACOFF MIKE
SMITH FRANK W
HOOK WALTER
ROWE KENNETH
KIDD THOMAS
WARE JACK
SARGEANT JACK
MC GRATH KEN

[second column/deuxième colonne]

MAC DONALD DUNCAN T
CAMPBELL ALBERT
HENDERSON WILLIAM J
BEXRUD KENNETH
MANUAL TERRENCE
HILLIER NORMAN
MARCELLES ALLAN
RAMSEY WILLIAM
SCHWENGER ARTHUR

[third column/troisième colonne]

DEMPSTER EDWARD
AITKEN ROBERT
WILSON JOSEPH
BRUCE CAMPBELL
THOMAS DONALD
RICHARDS FRANK
MURPHY HERBERT
MIMEE FRED
MEYERS MONTY

[right side/droit]

DURING SIX HOURS OF
COLD, WET EXPOSURE, SIXTEEN
CREWMEMBERS PERISHED. THE
BODIES ARE INTERRED IN GRAVESITES
CHOSEN BY THE NEXT OF KIN.

[first column/première colonne]

DOWNIE BRYAN
BERGE OLAF E
WHITE DONALD

ZBARSKY RALPH

KYMAN ALBERT

[second column/deuxième colonne]

MC CONNEL LAWRENCE
MC INTYRE THOMAS J
WHITE HEAD BRUCE M
DUCHARME JOSEPH R
DUNLOP RONALD E

MONAGHAM JOHN M

[third column/troisième colonne]

CARLSEN HARVEY M
JOHNSTON HOWARD E
EADIE CLIFFORD J
EDWARDS CHARLES

KNIGHT HERBERT R

War: A Family Affair

Commemoration of soldiers and nurses lost in the Great War takes various forms: names inscribed on war graves and monuments in Flanders and France, names engraved on Memorial Crosses awarded in memory of the fallen, named carved on the face of community cenotaphs and family headstones from one end of Canada to the other.

Two stone monuments - the community war memorial at Kettle Valley, B.C., and a family marker in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria - reflect the price Canadian families paid for the combined war effort of fathers, sons and daughters.

Two families, six members lost to war: a toll familiar to families across Canada.

The Oliver Family

Just Thirty-one people are listed among the fallen of Kettle Valley but four surnames are repeated. One of those names is Oliver.

Some 549 Canadians died in the Battle of Second Ypres, April 24, 1915. Among those who fell that day was Sidney Oliver, 44. Killed the same day in the same action was William Oliver, 22. Sidney and William were father and son. Neither has a known grave: each is remembered on the great monument to the missing, the Menin Gate, Ypres.

Having lost her husband and son on the same dark day in 1915, Sophia Oliver would be bereaved again. On Easter Monday, 1917: a second son, James, 19, was killed in thebattle for Vimy Ridge.

The three Memorial Crosses awarded to Sophia Oliver would not make her unique: many other Canadian mothers received as many, some even more.

The Peters Family

A century of west coast weather has made the north-facing words inscribed on the Peters family marker at Ross Bay illegible. But memory endures. An early volunteer, John Franklyn 'Jack' Peters, 22, died in the same action - Second Ypres - that killed Sidney and William Oliver. Fourteen months later, in June 1916, Jack's brother Gerald, 21, died in the Battle of Mont Sorrel.

Like Sidney and William Oliver, neither Peters brother has a known grave. They too are commemorated on the Menin Gate.

A third Peters brother, 'Fritz', served with great distinction, being awarded both the Distinguished Service Cross and Distinguished Service Order. Unlike his brothers, Fritz survived the Great War. When its sequel erupted in 1939 Fritz volunteered again. He was awarded the greatest of all British gallantry medals, the Victoria Cross, but died in an air crash shortly afterward.

Women and the War

The Great War was not just a man's endeavour: Canadian women also played a vital role. Between 1914 and 1918 more than six hundred thousand men set aside their normal trades to serve as Canadian soldiers. In many cases it was women who took over the tasks soldiers left behind. Women worked in myriad roles previously considered men-only. In some cases these roles were directly related to war production: women helped manufacture munitions and military equipment.

Beatrice McNair

Some 2,800 nurses volunteered for war service; many worked in military hospitals close to the battlefields. Their work was demanding and dangerous. Courage was frequently demanded - and delivered. Beatrice McNair of Vancouver was one of nine nurses awarded the Military Medal for gallantry. Sixty-four nurses earned the Royal Red Cross First Class for exceptional devotion to duty.

Amelia Earhart

It wasn't just registered nurses who were keen to do their part for the war effort. Some two thousand Canadian women served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) as nursing assistants, cooks, war aides and the like.

One member of the Canadian VAD went on to world-wide fame: Amelia Earhart joined in Toronto and served until the end of the war.

Grace MacPherson

Most VAD women did their duty on the home front but some were determined to take a part closer to the front lines. Vancouver's Grace MacPherson succeeded in doing just that. She drove an ambulance, transported wounded soldiers and was as talented a mechanic as she was a driver.

Fifty-eight nurses - including two who served in the VAD - died in service during the war, twenty as a direct result of enemy action.