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Oak Bay war memorials - cross references

19 November 2024

Oak Bay War memorials : cross references (under construction)

  • 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).
  • Victoria High School: see Victoria Daily Times, 1 May 1948, p.1 of Magazine section (following p.24), and repeated Daily Colonist 2 May 1948.
  • 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

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- Post by Anna Sander November 2024-