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    District of Oak Bay Roll of honour 1939-1945

    view transcript here (Veterans' Affairs)

    Oak Bay Archives does not hold original photographs, personal papers, or other records of most of the subjects listed below. If you have a photo of anyone in the list that you are able to share, or information that would contribute to any of the categories below, the Archivist would love to hear from you.

    This page is very long. To search for a name, type Ctrl + F and enter your term in the search box.

    Eventually, we intend that this list should contain, for each subject as applicable/available, at least:

    Oak Bay's WW2 War Memorials

    click links below

    Discrepancies - click title for link

    Oak Bay War Dead

    • Willows School: Ian McDonnell Sutherland-Brown; William Beaumont Brown; Geoffry Byatt; George Henry Corbett; George Scott Fraser Coulson; Vernon Beverley Gilson; Daniel Macfarlane McLeod Reid; Peter James Arnold Huke Palin; Thomas James McIntyre; Leighton M. Manning; John Blandford Latta; John Duncan Ward; and Ernest William Scroggs. Of these, McIntyre is not listed on the Oak Bay War Memorial. Willows honours school’s Second World War dead - Oak Bay News 15 November 2016.
    • Oak Bay High School: correspondence of 1943 from DH Hartness, Principal of Oak Bay High School, to Arthur Musgrave, who headed the war memorial project as municipal engineer, lists: "IH Acland, TM Baker, RF Bradbury, GH Corbett, G Coventry, DM Lindsay, P Palin, JA Shepherd, I Sutherland-Brown, D Wilson, R Walls." He also notes "I know there are others of our boys who have given their lives in this country's service". The school's physical memorials are missing following the rebuilding in 2014/15. Many thanks to Jean Sparks, volunteer at Oak Bay High School Archives, for a reference copy of the longer memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook (November 2024).
    • Monterey School
    • St Michael's School (now the Junior School of SMUS)
    • St Christopher's School
    • Glenlyon School and Norfolk House School (now Glenlyon-Norfolk)
    • St Mary's Anglican Church
    • Our Lady of Lourdes (now St Patrick's)
    • Oak Bay United Church

    Roll of honour

    Names are listed alphabetically by surname. The 96 names on the cenotaph are numbered.

    1. Acland, Ion Hugh (1914-1941).

    2. Akam, Thomas (1906-1940).

    3. Bailey, William Benjamin Edward (1920-1942).

    4. Baker, Thomas Morley (1920-1940).

    5. Beard, Thomas Norman Kemp (1921-1941).

    6. Beedham, Maurice Michael (1919-1944).

    7. Bennett, Pamela Gladys (1915-1945).

    Birch, Ronald George (1920-1944).

    • name appears in the Unveiling Ceremony programme (1948) but not elsewhere in Oak Bay memorial records
    • Oak Bay address: 2172 Lafayette St (mother's address, service record)
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    8. Bird, John Stanbridge (1919-1942).

    • Misspelled in all District of Oak Bay records as BURD.
    • Oak Bay address: "His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Bird, live at 2481 Central Avenue, Oak Bay. "
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    Blenkinsop, Edward Weyman (Teddy) (1920-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: Son of Hubert Weyman Blenkinsop and Winsome Hazel Blenkinsop(nee Neroutsos), of Victoria, British Columbia (CVWM), check directories
    • attended Cranleigh House, Monterey and Oak Bay High Schools in Oak Bay, as well as Craigflower and Central in Victoria.
    • Oak Bay High School: class of 1938, included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - photo
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photos. NB attribution of Blenkinsop Rd name is incorrect.
    • Blenkinsop died while a prisoner of war at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, after the publication of the Oak Leaf. Not found on the community rolls because he moved to and signed up in Vancouver and his parents were not Oak Bay residents at that time. (information from Jean Sparks, OBHS Archives). This points to some inconsistency in inclusion criteria and/or communication at the time, as others in a similar position were included.
    • Biographical note by Peter Celis, and see his biography of Blenkinsop, One who almost made it back, 2008.
    • Blenkinsop family fonds at City of Victoria Archives

    9. Bourque, Theodore (Ted) Phillip (1923-1944).

    10. Bradbury, Richard Forrest (Dick) (1920-1942).

    11. Bradshaw, George Gordon (1912-1944).

    12. Brooks, James Harry (1921-1944).

    13. Brown, Ian McDonald Sutherland (1919-1941).

    • Oak Bay address: 1931 Bowker Pl (service record)
    • commemorated on Willows School memorial
    • Oak Bay High School: included as Ian Sutherland-Brown in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • Sutherland is clearly given as a middle name with BROWN as surname in service record but Sutherland-Brown seems to have been used as surname unofficially.
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ] as Sutherland-Brown
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    14. Brown, Louis Kresse (1911-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: 3320 Weald Rd (parents' home, service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ] - as "Louis Kreese Brown"
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    15. Brown, William Beaumont (1920-1942).

    16. Bruce, Robert Emerson (1923-1944).

    17. Button, Frederick (Fred) Sidney (1921-1944).

    18. Byatt, Geoffrey (1917-1944).

    19. Carmichael, Brian Withers (1912-1943).

    • Oak Bay address: 1932 St Ann St (mother's address, service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    20. Christy, Richard Roland Thomas (1923-1942)

    21. Cooney, Patricia Jane (1922-1942).

    • Oak Bay address: not found (yet). 809 Linden Ave (City of Victoria) is given on Cooney's CWAC enrolment form in 1941; the city directories list the family of George Alexander Cooney & Jane Anne Cooney, including an entry for Patricia who was living at home, at 1246 Fairfield Road in 1937 and 517 Harbinger in 1941.
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • BC death record 1942-09-607646, no image available - [ source ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ WW2 Canadian Women's Project ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    22. Corbett, George Henry (1919-1940).

    23. Cornwall, James Anthony (1923-1944)

    24. Coulson, George Scott Fraser (1916-1944)

    25. Coventry, Henry Reginald (1915-1943)

    • Oak Bay address: check directories
    • [ Service record ] - served with Royal Air Force 102 Sqdn. (UK)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ CVWM ] - photos
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photos
    • Brother of Robert Coventry.

    26. Coventry, Robert George (1913-1940).

    • Oak Bay address: check directories
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • Service record not available, served with Royal Air Force (UK)
    • [ CVWM ] - photo
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo
    • Brother of Henry Reginald Coventry.

    27. Curtis, Edward Lea (1907/8-1941)

    28. Davey, John Vernon (1918-1942).

    • Oak Bay address: 680 Oliver St (parents' home, service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photos

    29. DeFreitas or De Freitas, Percival Francis Mayow (1900-1943)

    30. Doe, James Harrington (Harry) (1922-1944).

    31. Dyson, William John (1907-1942).

    32. Eley, Douglas Raymond (1922-1944).

    33. Ellis, Henry George.

    34. Field, Everilda Violet, later Yurke (1919-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: 1422 Newport Ave (aunt's home).
    • 1921 Canada Census: aged 2, living with parents James William and Everilda Agnes at 229 W. 26th Ave in Vancouver. Violet's mother died in 1927, when Violet was 8. Her father continued to live in Vancouver, and died there in 1958. Violet must have been sent to Oak Bay to live with the Philp family. A list of invitees to the war memorial unveiling ceremony in 1948 lists all the surnames of those commemorated and the number of guests expected to attend for each. "Field" on this list list is crossed out and replaced by "Philp". Francis EL Philp worked for "police BC Govt" (1936 city directory) and lived at 1422 Newport Avenue. His wife Nellie Faith, nee Dundas, was Violet's maternal aunt.
    • attended Monterey and Oak Bay High Schools (VDT obit)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • Service record not available - served in WRCNS, no longer on active service at time of death
    • British Colonist. Attended Monterey School in 1932 and Oak Bay High School in 1936/7, same class as Pierre Berton (b. ca. 1919/20) here.
    • [ Find A Grave ]
    • Victoria Daily Times obituary 4 May 1945, p.6 col. 3 - photo

    35. Fortt, Edward William Ronald (Bill) (1920-1942).

    36. Frame, Robert (Robin) Hicks (1914-1942).

    37. Fraser, Gordon (1915-1944).

    • Oak Bay address: 737 Monterey (widow & children's address, service record); 790 Linkleas (parents' address, service record)
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    38. Gilson, Vernon Beverley (1922-1944).

    • Oak Bay address: 2562 Cavendish (mother's address, service record)
    • commemorated on Willows School memorial
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    39. Grogan, Jack Armstrong (1919-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: 2580 Bowker Ave (service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    40. Harman, Frederic (Fred) Cuthbert (1912-1944).

    41. Harness, Arthur Creedon (1913-1941).

    • Oak Bay address: check directories
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - served in Canadian Merchant Navy
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave and also here]

    42. Harper, James Russell (1924-1944).

    Henigan, Clarence Francis

    43. Hind, Arthur Desmond (1924-1941, d. aged 17).

    • Oak Bay address: 2439 Currie
    • 1931 Census, see lines 35-36 - Desmond aged 7, his recently widowed mother Mildred, and younger brother Philip are living with French-born maternal grandmother Gertrude Zwinger at 2439 Currie. Mildred Hind is still living there in 1940; in 1948 the directory lists Philip Hind, now aged 21, as a helper at Robert Mayhew's Sidney Roofing Co.
    • Father John Arthur Lewis Hind died aged 29 in 1930 at Port Alberni, BC death reg. no. 1930-09-433130.
    • attended Monterey School, passed high school entrance exam, British Colonist 20 July 1938, p.3. col. 6.
    • in the same class at Monterey as Vincent Knox; Gordon Macfarlane was in the class below: Victoria Daily Times, 2 July 1932, p.12 col. 2
    • [ Service record ] - served in Canadian Merchant Navy
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ] n/a
    • [ Find A Grave ] not found
    • He died of smallpox in isolation at the Basra Hospital, Morocco. (CVWM)

    44. Horsfield, Robert Wilberforce (d.1941 aged 20).

    • Oak Bay address: check parents Alan G & Helen, formerly of Cadboro Bay Road, moved to Duncan/Cobble Hill
    • [ Service record ] - served in Royal Air Force (UK)
    • [ CVWM ] n/a
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]
    • British Colonist obit notice - 11 Nov 1941 p.2 col.4. Photo.

    45. Hunter, Raymond Henry (1919-1943).

    • Oak Bay address: born Victoria, check pre-war directories for Henry and Dorothy Hunter. Mother remarried, moved to Vancouver. (service record)
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    46. Johnson, Nora (1915-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: 2063 Marrion St
    • NB some sources spell forename Norah, but it is spelled Nora in military records, death certificate, and memorial correspondence. There is no H on the cenotaph.
    • died in the same plane crash as Pamela Bennett, above.
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ BC death certificate ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]
    • [ Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum ] - this site states that Nora Johnson and Norman Marshall Johnson, who died on the same flight, were siblings, but it is clear from information in their service records that this is not the case. Nora's parents were Edward and Alice Johnson, English immigrants living in Victoria BC; Norman's parents were Ole and Augusta Johnson, Norwegian immigrants farming in Alberta.

    47. Knox, Vincent Cooke Lindsay (1924-1943).

    • Oak Bay address: 2239 Oak Bay Ave (mother's address, service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - photo
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    48. Latta, John Blandford (1914-1941).

    • Oak Bay address: 2653 Dalhousie (1938 city directory, listed at parents' home)
    • commemorated on Willows School memorial
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - served with Royal Air Force (UK)
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • Battle of Britain monument - photo
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    49. Lawrie, James William (1920-1944).

    50. Leese, William Hewison (1924-1944).

    • Oak Bay address: 668 Island Rd (service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list (as W.B. Leese) in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - photo
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    51. Lindsay, Douglas Maxam (1922-1942).

    • Oak Bay address: 1828 Monteith St. (parents' address, service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    N.B. older lists tend to follow the Scottish convention of grouping all surnames beginning with Mc or Mac together at the top of the Ms. Nowadays Macs and Mcs are listed in strictly alphabetical order, because it's what computers understand. This means that if you are not sure whether a surname begins with Mc or Mac, you should look under both.

    52. MacNeill, Philip George Collie (1918-1942).

    • Oak Bay address: 2276 Cadboro Bay Rd (mother & siblings' home address, service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included as P. McNeil in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    53. Maconachie, James Roy Alexander (1910-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: 2195 Guernsey St (service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included as J.R.A. MacOnochie in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    54. Manning, Leighton McMicking (1918-1942)

    • Oak Bay address: 1556 Monterey Ave (mother's address, Missing Marines)
    • commemorated on Willows School memorial
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] served with RCAF then flew as a radioman and gunner with US Marines in Pacific theatre
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo
    • Missing Marines entry - photo

    55. May, Robert Seayears (d.1943).

    • Oak Bay address: Son of Robert Seayears Oliver and Mary Jane McKechnie Lindsay May, of Victoria
    • [ Service record ] - served with RAF (UK)
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    56. Mayer, Harry Edward (1921-1943)

    • surname misspelled Meyer on war memorial
    • brother of HLG Mayer, below
    • Oak Bay address: 2180 Pentland (father's address, service record)
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    (Mayer, Herbert Lee Gisborne, 1918-1977)

    • included here to clear up confusion with his brother HE Mayer, above - probably one of the reasons H.L.G. Mayer/Meyer is erroneously included on some of the draft lists and the Roll of Honour document.
    • "Sgt. H. L. G. Mayer, flight engineer" with RCAF [ source ]
    • "Sgt. H.L.G. Mayer RCAF R225219, flight engineer" - this source notes that Mayer and others in the air crew "parachute[d] to safety becoming POWs for the next two chaotic months before war’s end", so it may be that this name was added to draft lists while Mayer had been reported missing, but in fact he did not end up as a casualty of war after all. [ source ]
    • municipal engineer's correspondence notes he was reported "missing: presumed dead"; aunt also lived at 2180 Pentland Rd
    • see name confirmation here
    • BC death certificate here

    57. Mayhew, Charles Alan (1916-1943).

    58. McDermott, Irving Frederick (Fred) (1901-1941).

    McIntyre, Thomas James (1912-1945)

    • Oak Bay address: (check directories 1920s - service record gives mother's address on Lillian, City of Victoria near Gonzales Bay)
    • commemorated on Willows School memorial
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find a Grave ]

    59. McMullin, Francis (Frank) Hugh (1909-1942).

    • Oak Bay address: Son of Colonel John Hugh McMullin and Mrs. McMullin, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    • [ Service record ] (record images not available)
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave: Royal Oak and Runnymede] - photo

    60. Mellander, Ernest William Terence (1923-1944).

    • Oak Bay address: 964 1/2 Byng St. (parents' address, service record) Son of Ernest George Gustaf and Margaret Mellander, of Victoria, British Columbia.
    • [ Service record ] - photos
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    61. Meredith, Richard Charles (1918-1943).

    62. Moore, Thomas Walton ( 1920-1941).

    63. Palin, Peter James Arnold Huke (1919-1942).

    64. Palmer, William Sydney (1912-1941).

    • Oak Bay address: Son of Captain William Quinn Palmer and Mary May Howard of Victoria, British Columbia.
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - served in Canadian Merchant Marine.
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    Pangman, B.

    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • cf directories, Charles & Eileen Pangman, 912 Newport Ave
    • no Canadian service record available

    65. Parker, George Frederick (1915-1941).

    • Oak Bay address: 1720 Hampshire Rd. (parents' address, service record) Son of Charles Harris Parker and Mabel R. Parker, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    66. Pattinson, Roy (1919-1944).

    67. Peasland, Charles Willox (1921-1943).

    • Oak Bay address: 1052 Newport Ave (The Guest House), 1329 St Patrick St, 2644 Cavendish Ave (mother's addresses, service record). NB middle name is WILLOX not WILLCOX.
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - photo
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ] NB middle name misspelled
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    68. Phillips, William Edward (1913-1941).

    69. Pidcock, Charles Trevor Leighton (1917-1944)

    • Oak Bay address: 977 Victoria Ave (service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - photo
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    70. Reid, Daniel MacFarlane McLeod (1920-1944).

    71. Robbins, Edward Gorton (1920-1941)

    • Oak Bay address: 1044 South Hampshire Rd
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave and here ] - photo

    Robinson, E.

    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook

    72. Robson, James Thomas (1918-1944).

    Rose, Stephen Gregory (d.1940)

    • included in early drafts of Oak Bay roll of honour lists but not on the Beach Drive memorial or the Roll of Honour document.
    • Oak Bay address: Son of Dr & Mrs William Rose of Uplands Lodge, Thorpe Place (#3, 2612 Thorpe Pl); attended St Christopher's & St Michael's schools (Vic Times obituary); included in MS list from Rev. Nunns at St Mary's Anglican Church.
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - served with RAF (UK)
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]
    • Victoria Daily Times obituary notice, 16 May 1940 - photo

    73. Rycroft, Arthur Martyn (d. 1943).

    • Oak Bay address: Son of Lt.-Col. John Gordon Rycroft and Alice Rycroft, of Oak Bay, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
    • [ Service record ] - served with Royal Artillery, Signals (UK)
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    74. Scharff, William Kenneth (1920-1944).

    • Oak Bay address: 1245 Hulett (i.e. Hewlett) Place (service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    75. Scroggs, Ernest William (1916-1943).

    • Oak Bay address: 2417 Estevan Ave (service record)
    • commemorated on Willows School memorial
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    76. Shearing, Robert Rufus (1912-1945).

    77. Shepherd, John Adamson (1915-1940)

    • Oak Bay address: 831 Linkleas. An MS note in municipal records (Archives) notes "P.O. John Shepperd, Linkleas Ave, RAF"
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ] - served with RAF (UK)
    • [ CVWM ] "Son of Reginald Shepherd and May Corbett. Brother of Reginald Alaistair [sic] Shepherd who was killed in action on April 5, 1944 while serving with the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment."
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    78. Shepherd, Reginald Alastair (1914-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: 831 Linkleas Ave (service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    79. Sills, John Loring (1921-1943).

    80. Stevens, John Frank (1920-1943).

    • Oak Bay address: 1539 Monterey Ave. check for John Slade and Mary Stevens living in Victoria ca. 1930, see service record.
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    81. Stewart, Douglas Bute (1919-1945).

    82. Stoney, George Edward Bowes. (1911-1940)

    • Oak Bay address: Son of E. Bowes Stoney and K. M. Stoney; husband of Aileen Hilary Beresford Stoney, of West Derby, Liverpool.
    • [ Service record ] - served with RAF (UK)
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    83. Syme, James David (1923-1944).

    • Oak Bay address: father John Syme was chief of Oak Bay Police, check directories. Willows School, Oak Bay High, Victoria High.
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    84. Symons, Charles Michael Brooke (? - 1942).

    • Oak Bay address: Son of Kyle Charles and Edith A. Symons, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; husband of Margaret Jane Symons, of Victoria.
    • [ Service record ] - served with RAF (UK)
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Canadian Fallen ]
    • [ Wings of War ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    85. Taylor, Selby Fred (1924-1943).

    • Oak Bay address: 2732 Thompson Ave (parents' home, service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    86. Trace, Jack Richdale (1915-1943).

    87. Trudel, Paul Arthur (1916-1943).

    • Oak Bay address: 1084 St David St (mother's address, service record)
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ] - photo

    88. Tull, Lloyd Henry (1924-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: 2856 Cadboro Bay Rd (parents' home, service record)
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    89. Verley, Edward Worrell Graham (1914-1943)

    • Oak Bay address: attended Willows School (service record - check Victoria directories 1920s)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    90. Walls, Raymond (Ray) Ben (1920-1942).

    • Oak Bay address: 1798 Lee Ave, later 1725 Oak Bay Avenue (mother's address, service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • [ Service record ]
    • [ CVWM ]
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    91. Ward, John Duncan (1919-1944).

    • Oak Bay address: listed on the Willows School memorial - the rest of this research is thanks to Willows including his middle name.
    • commemorated on Willows School memorial
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
    • John Duncan Ward was born in England and the family moved to Canada in 1928 (1931 census)
    • A JE Ward is listed at 1840 Newton St in the 1930 directory. Could this be an error for JS Ward? 1840 Newton is not in Oak Bay, but it's not far from Willows School.
    • at the time of the 1931 census (see line 30), one John Duncan Ward, aged 13, was living at 3127 Balfour Rd (Gorge) Victoria BC, with his parents James Sydney Ward, a heating engineer with the Hudson's Bay store, and Mabel Ward, and older brother Reginald Greaves Ward, aged 16.
    • The family moved to Australia, and John Duncan Ward served with the Royal Australian Air Force.
    • [ Australian Virtual War Memorial ] - photo
    • [ CWGC ]
    • [ Find A Grave ]

    92. Whiting, Frank Harlow (1917-1944)

    • Oak Bay address: 2183 Windsor Rd (mother's address, service record)
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    93. Williams, Edwin Mountford (1917-1945).

    • Oak Bay address: 311 Foul Bay Road (parents' address, service record)
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    94. Wilson, Donald Alexander Kenneth (1921-1942).

    • Oak Bay address: 2517 Margate St (service record)
    • Oak Bay High School: included in memorial list in the 1945 Oak Leaf yearbook
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    Wilson, Richard Alexander

    • this name does not appear on the Oak Bay cenotaph, but R.A. Wilson does appear on the hand written decorated Honour Roll displayed in the lobby of Municipal Hall until 2019, which is now in the Archives. A framed facsimile is displayed in the main foyer of Municipal Hall next to the Archives display case.
    • Oak Bay address: Richard Alexander Wilson (d.1943) is listed in several places but ultimately was not placed on the memorial. Service records shows only Vancouver addresses incl PW High. Check father's name in VIctoria during Richard's elementary school years. More research pending...
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    95. Wood, Matthew (1912-1944).

    96. Wood, Stanley Edmondson. (1919-1940)

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