Oakville at War

    Lance Corporal with the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Stationed in Ottawa, Kingston, and Montreal from 1942 to 1945.

    April 1941, Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the position of Navigator/Bomber. First attached to Coastal Command #221 stationed in Ireland and Iceland, then served in Malta in 194

    Lieutenant, Canadian Field Artillery. Zouch and his wife, Peggy, moved to Oakville in 1947.

    Private with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry from March 20, 1940, to August 27th, 1945. Prisoner of war at Dieppe on August 19, 1942, until August 1945.

    Flight Lieutenant (pilot) with #622 Squadron. Killed in action December 24, 1944, at the age of 26. Robert was buried in Grevenbroich, Germany, exhumed, and reburied in the Reichswald Forest War Ceme

    Gunner in the 3rd Anti-Tank Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Served from 1942 to 1946 in England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. Henry and his wife mo

    Service number: B133801. Served with the Royal Canadian Army, Driver Training. Stationed in Camp Borden, Ontario.

    Gunner killed in World War II. Wallace is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1940 Honour Roll.

    Served with the Irish Regiment of Canada.

    With the Queens Own Battalion Band, overseas in Italy.

    Service number: W301968. Served in the Royal Canadian Air Force Womens' Division from January 1942 to February 1946. Entered as "general duties" and re-mustered to clerk.

    Flight Lieutenant (pilot) with #3 Operational Training Unit, Patricia Bay, British Columbia. Killed December 2, 1944, at the age of 30. George has no known grave. His name is inscribed on the Ottawa

    Aircraftsman R.62686, with the Royal Canadian Air Force, in Egypt. Lived his last years in Oakville.

    Royal Canadian Air Force, 434 Squadron. Ridley was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts as a tail gunner on D-Day, June 6 1944.

    Captain, killed in World War II. Charles is commemorated on the Oakville Trafalgar High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll.

    Enlisted with the Lorne Scots at the age of 16. Transferred to the 48th Highlanders and then to the Queen's Own Rifles to go overseas in 1941. James died in 1944 at the age of 20, from wounds receive

    Service number: C13187. Flight Lieutenant, enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a medical doctor in 1942. Posted to Halifax following classification in Aviation Medicine.

    Service number: R114188. Corporal with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Served from 1941 to 1945 in England, India, and Burma.

    Corporal with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Served from March 1941 to July 1945. Served as a driver for the Mechanical Transport Unit for Toronto Squadron #110, then joined Squadron #400 in England a

    Private in the Argyle and Sutherland Regiment. Served in Jamica, England, Scotland, and Belgium, 1940-1945.