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Ruth Kinread Lewis (Primary Source)
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Ruth Kinread Lewis (Primary Source)

During the Second World War, Ruth Kinread went to Nova Scotia to work for a company that supplied Navy ships. 

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Ruth Pauline Michener (Primary Source)
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Ruth Pauline Michener (Primary Source)

Ruth Pauline Michener joined the Women’s Division of the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. She served in clerk operations, plotting aircraft in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

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Ruth Shirley Johnson Lavers (Primary Source)
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Ruth Shirley Johnson Lavers (Primary Source)

Ruth Shirley Johnson served as a dietitian in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the Second World War.

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Ruth Gwendolyn Phyllis Aitken Windus (Primary Source)
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Ruth Gwendolyn Phyllis Aitken Windus (Primary Source)

Ruth Aitken (née Windus) served with the Royal Canadian Air Force Women’s Division during the Second World War.

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Abel Allain (Primary Source)
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Abel Allain (Primary Source)

Abel Allain served in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps. in the Second World War. Read and listen to Abel Allain’s testimony below.

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William Elliott (Primary Source)
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William Elliott (Primary Source)

William Elliott served with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps during the Second World War.

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William Barrett (Primary Source)
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William Barrett (Primary Source)

William Barrett served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

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William Cockburn (Primary Source)
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William Cockburn (Primary Source)

William Cockburn served with the Royal Canadian Artillery during the Second World War.

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William Booth (Primary Source)
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William Booth (Primary Source)

William Booth served with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals during the Second World War. He was responsible for maintaining communication equipment, working in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.

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William Kilbourne (Primary Source)
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William Kilbourne (Primary Source)

William Kilbourne served in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry during the Second World War.

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William McGee (Primary Source)
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William McGee (Primary Source)

William McGee served in the First Special Service Force of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Second World War. He served in the Armed Forces from 1941 until 1964.

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William Husson (Primary Source)
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William Husson (Primary Source)

William Husson served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

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Adélard Raymond
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Adélard Raymond

Adélard Raymond, pilot, businessman and politician (born 10 July 1889 in Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, QC; died 23 February 1962 in Montreal, QC). Raymond was a French-Canadian pilot who served in the First World War and then in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) from 1934 to 1945. He was the second French Canadian to be appointed air vice-marshal. Raymond was also involved in the hotel industry and in various commercial operations. He was elected mayor of Senneville, on the west island of Montreal, serving from June 1951 to June 1959.

William Parker (Primary Source)
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William Parker (Primary Source)

William Parker served as an assistant cook in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War.

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Leonard Braithwaite (Primary Source)
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Leonard Braithwaite (Primary Source)

"I started to go down to Bay and Wellington. That’s where the recruiting station was. The first time the guy, the recruiting officer, just said, "No, sorry, we don’t take you people.""

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Bertha Annie “Bertie” Hull (née Herr) (Primary Source)
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Bertha Annie “Bertie” Hull (née Herr) (Primary Source)

"And it was rather a sad time for us because so many of the officers that came back that were wounded, they’d probably been ones we’d danced with."

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Ernest Alec Bagstad (Primary Source)
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Ernest Alec Bagstad (Primary Source)

"I was entirely alone. There was no one around me that was, that was alive and able to give me moral support or help, or anything else. The third counterattack was just one too many. I wound up being a prisoner of war."

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Florian Roy (Primary Source)
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Florian Roy (Primary Source)

"I took a walk through many of the rows of tombstones at the Pusan cemetery to find some of my close friends who were there. I told myself that I would see that once in my lifetime."

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Tom Naphtahli “Little Chief” Settee (Primary Source)
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Tom Naphtahli “Little Chief” Settee (Primary Source)

"I was running from one slit trench to the other; and they started peppering us, you know. I was running back and I got hit in the leg. I couldn't move, the shrapnel is still here."

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Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.