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    Collected by Alvin Duncan, a radar operator in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    Collected by Alvin Duncan, a radar operator in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

    With the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Onshore service in Halifax.

    Served with the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve in Regiment V63301, 1943-1945.

    Service number: V80268. Served as Stoker I with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1943 to 1945. Met wife, Marie Lang, while in the service.

    Among other duties, William Shields served on the H.M.C.S. Trentonian, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the English Channel near Falmouth on February 22, 1945.

    Enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1941 as an Ordinary Seaman and trained as an ASDIC (Anti-Submarine Detector). Served in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the North Atlantic in min

    Known locally in Oakville as "The Commodore," Robertson was appointed Commanding Officer of H.M.C.S. Fundy and Senior Officer of the first Minesweeping Flotilla in 1939. In 1941 he took command of on

    Ordinary Seaman, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. Served on the H.M.C.S. Shawinigan. Killed November 24, 1944 at the age of 20. Commemorated on the Oakville High School 1939-1945 Honour Roll.

    Enlisted, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, 1942. Assigned to the Royal Navy as Petty Officer. Sailed on Royal Mail ship Camaronia to Glasgow, then aboard HMS Ferret and HMS Weston. Did convoy d

    Married to Rose Daikens.

    Edward M. Davis (left) joined the Royal Navy and was posted to HMS Illustrious as a Torpedo Bomber Pilot, serving early on in Sumatra, Sabang and Java. Robert W. Davis (right) joined the Shipwright B

    Toronto Daily Star, November 3, 1941. Articles leading up to HMCS Oakville's dedication.

    Nancy Hart in military uniform of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service

    Newspaper clipping describing the sinking of the H.M.C.S. Trentonian, a Royal Canadian Navy corvette, off the French coast.

    HMS Weston, a Royal Navy sloop, Falmouth class, saw service in the Second World War. Photo may have been taken by Alan G. Cutmore, formerly of Oakville, who served on board.

    Served from 1943 to 1946 with the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, Ldg. Wren 2946, a member of the File Revision Unit, in Newfoundland and other naval establishments across Canada.

    Married to George W. (Bud) Daikens.

    Print - Do Not Write Name Hart, John Oliver Address Box 622 Oakville City Ontario Canada Parents' Name Mrs. H.C. Mathews Local Newspaper Trinity College School Port Hope Ontario Canada Photo by HALL