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Those known to have served with Royal Canadian Artillery during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Anstruther-Gray MC William John St Clair. Mjr.
- Bailey Ernest.
- Bailey Ernest.
- Bannerman Gordon. Sgt Major
- Bolton Walter Gladwin.
- Breithaupt Arthur L.. Lt.
- Brooke Harold. WOII.
- Chapman Jack.
- Clayton Thomas F. P. .
- Doheny Daniel O'Connell. Lt.
- Doohan James. Lt.
- Dowden Walter Roy. L/Sgt. (d.9th Jun 1944)
- Harcourt Bruce. Gunner
- Johnson Vernon.
- Kearney Joseph Francis Kieran.
- Killingback Stanley Harold. 1st.Lt.
- Larson Gerald Peter. Gnr.
- LeMesurier MC James Ross. Lt.
- Mackay John. Pte.
- Mahoney VC John Keefer. Mjr
- McGuire George Taylor. Gnr.
- Morley Leonard. Rflmn. (d.15th Sep 1941)
- Morrow George Dixon. Capt. (d.30th Mar 1941)
- Osborn VC John Robert. Sgt.Major (d.December 19 1941)
- Parker Richard. Pte. (d.13th Dec 1942)
- Payne Orme.
- Richards John Leonard. Pte.
- Robinson John T..
- Savage James R.. Sgt. (d.10th July 1943)
- Smith MID. Wilmot Aubrey. Gnr.
- Sopp Roy Harry Watson.
- Spencer Jack. Capt.
- Spencer Jack. 2nd Lt.
- Walker Stanley James. F/Lt.
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Walter Gladwin Bolton I am trying hard to find my mother's father, Walter Bolton she never saw him nor knows much about him. Her mother was a nurse in WW2 in London and was in the Royal Canadian Artillery .all I've got to go on is what is on my mum's birth cert. He is down as Walter Gladwin Bolton bdr 28052 Royal Canadian Artillery {steel worker}.I can only find one Walter Bolton and he died in 1944 and is buried in Moro, Italy. On one paper it gives date of his death and said he has a one year old daughter he had never seen. The dates match my mother's birth. How can I be sure?
Editor's note: Walter Bolton buried at Moro has a different middle name, regiment and service number so is unlikley to be the same person. Check our Family History Hints & Tips for more sources to search.
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Ernest Bailey 59th Newfoundland heavy Royal Artillery My father, Ernest Bailey, came from Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. I'm trying to find anyone who knew my father or heard anyone mention his name when talking about their time in the war. My father went to northwest Europe with his regiment on the 4th July 1944.
My husband and I went to Trinity and donated his medals to Trinity War Museum. As his uniform was in the museum there I felt it was the place for his medals to be.
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Ernest Bailey 59th Newfoundland heavy Royal Artillery My father, Ernest Bailey, came from Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. I'm trying to find anyone who knew my father or heard anyone mention his name when talking about their time in the war. My father went to northwest Europe with his regiment on the 4th July 1944.
My husband and I went to Trinity and donated his medals to Trinity War Museum. As his uniform was in the museum there I felt it was the place for his medals to be.
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Gnr. George Taylor McGuire 7th Medium Artillery Regiment George McGuire was my grandfather. He served in Europe with the 7th Medium Artillery Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, 2nd Army Group RCA, 1st Canadian Army. He saw action in Normandy, the Seine, Boulogne, Calais, the Scheldt, Bergen op Zoom, and Nijmegen. In 1945 in Ems, the Rhineland, he was transferred to the 14th Armoured (Calgary Tank) Regiment.
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Lt. Arthur L. Breithaupt Calgary Tanks My father Art Breithaupt was taken prisoner at the raid at Dieppe on 19th of August 1942.
He had been in charge of several tanks in the Calgary Tanks Division. He referred to his tank as Betty.
He said very little to his family and friends about his imprisonment at Oflag VII B in Eichstatt, Bavaria. However, he did return to Canada in 1945 post war with a wonderful needlepoint that he had done at the camp. It is a scene of Oflag VII B.
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Lt. James Ross LeMesurier MC Scout Platoon Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders James Ross LeMesurier was born in Montreal on Nov. 26, 1923, the son of a law professor who went on to become Dean of Law at McGill. In spite of the family’s French name, they were very much English Canadian. The LeMesurier family traced its roots to the Channel Islands, off the British mainland.
Young Ross grew up in Westmount and went to Selwyn House, going on to boarding school at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ont. A tall, muscular boy, he was a first-rate athlete and captain of the cricket, football and hockey teams as well as a keen squash player.
Straight out of high school he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Artillery. By March of 1943 he was promoted to lieutenant. He spent months training in Canada before being shipped to Europe in 1944 on loan to the British Army. The British Army was short of junior officers at the time, many of them having been killed in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy.
Lieut. LeMesurier was one of 673 “Canloans,” as they were called, young Canadian officers who volunteered for service in the British Army. The Canloans were all sent into battle, and thus suffered much higher casualty rates than the rest of the Army: Of 673 officers, 75% were killed or wounded, as opposed to regular losses of 50%.
Ross LeMesurier joined the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, part of the famed British 51st Highland Division, which had defeated Rommel in North Africa. He was commander of the scout platoon. It was a dangerous appointment, as his men had to probe enemy defences before an attack or gauge whether the enemy was preparing a counterattack. Lieut. LeMesurier was wounded by rifle fire once, then by mortar fire in the Battle of Hochwald Forest in Germany in February, 1945. His leg was amputated below the knee at a field hospital. He was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery.
After the war he went on to become a highly successful businessman, finally retiring in 1983.
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Gnr. Gerald Peter "Larry" Larson 23rd Field Regiment, 83rd Bty. Royal Canadian Artillery Gerald Larson served as a Gunner in the Royal Canadian Artillery for 2229 days between September 1939 and October 1945.
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Capt. George Dixon Morrow 2nd LAA Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery (d.30th Mar 1941) Captain George Morrow was the Son of William and Esther Ann Morrow.
He was 56 when he drowned.
He is buried in the Ballinakill (St. Thomas) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Ballinakill, Co. Galway, Ireland.
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Rflmn. Leonard Morley 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.15th Sep 1941) My great-uncle Len Morley was killed serving with 1st KRRC in the Western Desert. He was 21 years old. He is buried at Sollum in Egypt, near the Libyan border. His younger brother John was wounded on 7th June 1944 in France but survived the war, despite regular returns to hospital, until he died in 1991.
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WOII. Harold Brooke Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers My father, Harold Brooke, joined the R.A.O.C. on 5th August 1940 and then the R.E.M.E. on its formation on 1st October 1942 and served until he was demobilised on 23rd January 1946. He was an electrician by trade.
I know very little about his service except that he was stationed in or near Dover in 1944 as he met and, in December, married my stepmother that year. His first wife, my mother, had died of cancer in December 1943.
During his service in Dover he worked on radar installations and the cross-channel guns.
I know he was in (West?) Africa at some time, probably pre-1944, and was stationed in Holland for a period following the D-Day invasion. Regrettably I have no other information about his service.
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