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Vader, James Daniel Edwin
Date of Birth: 23 Feb 1922
Date of Death: 01 Oct 1944
Rank: Private
Unit: Calgary Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Force: Army
Service Number: M50508
Son of Daniel and Ethel May Vader, of Spirit River, Alberta.
Valin, Elmer
Van Natter, Elwood Lee
Vannebo, Norman
Vannebo, Palmer
VanSickle, Alan
VanSickle, Grace
VanSickle, Maurice
VanSickle, Ralph
Velie, George
Velie, Reginald
Velve, Lawrence Orvald
Birth Date: 5 Jul 1923
Birth Place: Ulbee, South Dakota, U.S.A.
Residence: Valhalla Centre, Alberta
Service Number: M7988
Force: Army
Regiment: Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Rank: Private
Killed in Action: 8 Mar 1945
Notes: Mother - Lilly Velve
Verreault, Achille
Versailles, Peter
Date of Birth: 24 Oct 1912
Place of Birth: St Albert
Service Number M17181
Force: Army
Regiment: Loyal Edmonton Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Rank: Private
Death Date: 23 Dec 1943
Next of Kin: Father Louie Versailles
Vetch, William
Vicklund, Assar
Viens, Joseph
Date of Birth: 1916
Vinet, Frank
Vinet, George
Vipond, Asa Ivan
Vipond, Stanley Lorne
Visscher, John
Volden, Hans
Voshall, Harold "Tiny"
Date of Birth: October 31, 1918
Place of Birth: Cle Elum, Washington, USA
Served in Calgary
Source: "Bridges to the Past" pg. 210
"Across the Smoky" pg. 41
Voshall, Howard Clifford
Birth Date: 23 Dec 1916
Birth Place: Cle Elum, Washington, USA
Residence: DeBolt, Alberta, Canada
Service number: M1134
Force: Army
Regiment: Royal Canadian Artillery
Rank: Gunner
Date of Enlistment: 1939 in Calgary
Date of Death: January 20, 1941
Burial: Canadian Military Cemetery in Brookwood, England
Source: "Bridges to the Past" pg. 210
"Across the Smoky" pg.41
Voz, Albert
Waddell, Arvid
From Albright
Waddell, William
Wade, Chester
Wade, Robert
Wagar, Max
Wagar, Mel
Wagner, Ferdinand
Source: Pioneer Round-Up pg. 100
Wagner, John
Source: Pioneer Round-Up pg. 100
Waldie, Raymond Arthur
Wales, John Arthur "Jack"
Date of Birth: 24/06/1916
Walker, Art
Walker, Clem
Walker, Greg
Walker, Jack
Date of Birth: 18/09/1900
Walker, John
Wallace, Carman Cecil
Walmsley, H.A.
Walsh, Paddy
Walters, Mary
Ward, Cliff
From Hythe
Ward, Harold
Warden, Howard .R.
From Sexsmith
Wardill, John
Wardill, Tom
Wartenbes, Foster
Watherston, Olive O.B.E.
Olive Watherston was born in Hinckley, England, the youngest of 10 children born to Reverend Alexander Law Watherston, headmaster of Hinckley Grammar school. She received her training in nursing and midwifery in England and graduated in 1913. Shortly after World War I broke out, she enlisted with Queen Alexandra’s Military Service and served as a nurse at a Casualty Clearing Station in France, where she was mentioned in despatches several times in 1918.
In 1921, Olive came to Canada and on December 12, joined the Alberta Department of Health. She was appointed district nurse at Halcourt (southwest of Grande Prairie). She was district nurse for Valleyview from 1930 to 1936.
Olive was in Britain on holiday leave when World War II broke out. She offered her services as a nurse and midwife in London and worked there during “The Blitz.”
She returned to Alberta and resumed work as a district nurse at Lindale and Tangent until her retirement in 1950. She moved to Victoria, BC, where she passed away on November 29, 1969.
Watson, Andrew "Roy"
Watson, John Finlay
Birth Date: 16 Sep 1892
Birth Place: Belfast, Durham, Ireland
Residence: Wembley, Alberta
Service Number: M56292
Force: Army
Regiment: Veterans Guard of Canada
Rank: Private
Killed in Action: 2 Feb 1945
Notes: Served in WWI Service Number: 437637, 51st Battalion, Aug. 1915 - Mar. 1919
For King and Country poster in Wembley
Watson, Jim
Watson, Ray
Watson, Robert "Bert"
Robert Watson was born in County Down, Northern Ireland on July 19, 1894. Bert, as he was known, came to Canada with his parents in 1908 and settled in the Bonny Doon area of Edmonton. Bert went the high school in Strathcona and then attended the McTavish business college. He worked for Killen and Gilbert Real Estate for several years.
Bert enlisted in the 202nd Battalion in World War I and transferred to the artillery overseas. He was awarded a medal for saving a machine gun from burning. After the war he came to Grande Prairie and worked at the Beaverlodge Experimental Station.
In World II he was stationed at the Sergeant’s quarters and ordered supplies for the soldiers stationed there. After the war, Bert worked in the Land Office in Grande Prairie, then for the Government Appraisers for the Prairie Farm Assistance.
Bert passed away November 30, 1974.
(See also his entry in World War I)
Sources:
Along the Wapiti (p. 403)
Pioneers of the Peace (p. 119)
Lake Saskatoon Reflections (p. 32)
Watt, Alexander
Watt, D.M.
Weaver, Arthur
Settled in Grande Prairie after the war.
Date of Death: June 24, 2005
Weaver, Charles L.
From Glen Leslie
Weaver, Margaret Stanton
Margaret Stanton was born in St. Alban’s, England and joined the Field Army Nursing Yeomanry in 1938. She drove an ambulance and ration truck during the War and later was employed taking away gun emplacements and transporting prisoners of war. She met Art at a USO show put on by the American army and they were married in Aldershot on January 23, 1946. Their son, Ken, was born that same year and after Art left for Canada, she and Ken boarded the Queen Mary with thousands of other brides and children for their trip to Canada. They lived near Cadogan, Alberta and later moved to Grande Prairie. She never went back to England.
Webb, Harold
Regimental Number: M39942
Date of Birth: 07/04/1922
Smoky Peace Triangle p. 398
Webb, Herbert J.
Webb, Joseph
Webb, Max G.
Webster, Jock
Webster, John
Wedell, A.R.
Wedell, C.
Wedell, E.H.
Weeks, Howard
Date of Birth: 13/12/1924
Weeks, Robert
Weiss, Alvin E.
Date of Birth: 8 Apr 1922
Birth Place: Jansen Saskatchewan Canada
Residence: Hythe Alberta Canada
Service Number: M104114
Force: Army
Regiment Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (M.G.), R.C.I.C.
Rank: Private
Killed in Action: 31 Oct 1934
Weiss, E.E.
Weiss, Henry
Weitzel, Henry
Weller, Donald
Source: Pioneer Round-Up pg. 100
Weller, James
Source: Pioneer Round-Up pg. 100
Wellman, Edwin
Wells, Delbert "Sonny"
Wells, Ralph
Welsh, Jimmy
Welter, Jack
Welter, William
Date of Birth: 1919
West, Sheppard
Westad, John
Birth Date: 2 Aug 1917
Birth Place: Molde, Molde, Norway
Residence: Hythe, Alberta
Service Number: M56260
Force: Army
Regiment: Lake Superior Regiment (Motor), R.C.I.C.
Rank: Private
Killed in Action: 2 Mar 1945
Wetmore, Harmon Hillis
Whalen, Charles Jacob
Whalen, Robert "Bob"
Wheatley, Robert
Wigmore, Earl Chester
Wilburn, Edward Joseph
White, Charles
White, Colin Fred
White, Douglas
For King and Country poster in Wembley
White, Ernest Albert
White, J.D.
Whiteside, Pte.
Whitlock, Wilfred J.
From Grande Prairie
Whittaker, J.J.
Whyte, David
For King and Country poster in Wembley
Wiebe, David
Wiebe, Jake
Wiegel, Victor
Wigelsworth, Pte.
Wigmore, Earl Chester
Rank: Corporal
Wilburn, Donald J.
Signed up in Grande Prairie in 1940
Wilburn, Edward
Wilde, Arnold
Willard, Frank
Willis, Leslie
Date of Birth: 1917
Wills, Alex
Wills, Frederick H.
Lived in Windsor Creek.
Source: Pioneer Round-Up pg. 100
Wills, Roland
Source: Pioneer Round-Up pg. 100
Wills, Walter C.
Lived in Windsor Creek
Source: Pioneer Round-Up pg. 100
Willsey, Daniel
For King and Country poster in Wembley
Willsey, John "Jack"
For King and Country poster in Wembley
Willsey, Melvin
For King and Country poster in Wembley
Wilson, Doug
Branch: RCAF
Wilson, Elmer A.
Wilson, Harold
Wilson, Harry
Wilson, James
from Grande Prairie
Wilson, Ken
From Sexsmith
Wilson, Ludwick
Windram, Kenneth Alexander
Winiewskie, John
Winterford, Hank
Wise, John Arthur
Wishart, Hank
Withers, Howard
Witwicki, William
Wityshen, William
Wityshyn, Tony
Wold, Lenny
Wold, Paul
Woloszyn, Kasmir
Wood, Bill
Wood, Don
Woodcock, Elvin R.
Woodcox, Harry John
Woodward, Cecil
Woods, Brent
Date of Death: 1967
Pioneer Round Up pg.323
Woolsey, Harold
Woolsey, Raymond
Wortman, Bill
Wozniak, William
Date of Birth: 23/07/1923
Wright, Allen
Wright, Clifford
Wright, Kelly
LAC
Branch: RCAF
Wright, Roy
AC2
Wyman, Dean
b. 1919 in Oklahoma, USA
Branch: Forestry Corps.
Yanczura, John
York, Leonard
Young, Allen
Young, Bert
Young, Fielding
Young, Hellen
Young, John
For King and Country poster in Wembley
Young, Reuben Erland
Regimental Number: M56552
Rank: Guardsman
Killed in Action: 21-Oct-44
Young, Roland
For King and Country poster in Wembley
Young, Steve
Young, Wilfred
Yurychuck, John
Date of Birth: 21/03/1921
Zaichkowsky, Joe
Date of Birth: 1923
Zaichkowsky, Nick
Date of Birth: 02/05/1905
Zaichkowsky, Ted
Date of Birth: 14/04/1916
Zelling, Hugo
b. 2 Dec 1919 in Malinowka, Poland
Lived in Wembley
d. April 17, 1991 in Grande Prairie
Source: obituary in Grande Prairie Daily Herald 18 April 1991
Zeyha, George
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1914
Birth Place; Gardenton, Manitoba
Residence: Grande Prairie, Alberta
Service Number: M31382
Force: Army
Regiment: Calgary Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Rank: Private
Killed in Action: 26 Oct 1944