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  • Memory Project Archive

    Harry "Acky" Acton

    TranscriptFirst of course in Mountain View, just out of Trenton, Ontario. From there I went to [Royal Canadian Air Force Station] Fingal and we flew, the base flew, I was an armourer, on Bolingbrokes [trainer aircraft], which probably very few people have heard of. And we did training exercises for air crew over the lake, particularly operating turrets and firing machine guns. And I finished a tour there and I was transferred overseas. And part...

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/The-Memory-Project/image/2594_original.jpg Harry "Acky" Acton
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    Harry Andrews Roberts (Primary Source)

    Harry Andrews Roberts served in the Canadian Army with the Canadian Scottish Regiment during the Second World War.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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/The-Memory-Project/image/5360_original.jpg Harry Andrews Roberts (Primary Source)
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    Harry Robert Bob Eager (Primary Source)

    Harry Eager served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/The-Memory-Project/image/2889_original.jpg Harry Robert Bob Eager (Primary Source)
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    Harry Schmuck (Primary Source)

    Harry Schmuck served as an air gunner with a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber crew during the Second World War.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.

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    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Harry Schmuck (Primary Source)
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    Harvey Douglas Burns (Primary Source)

    "I think they should know, the younger people, what we really did. Because if you don’t tell a story, they don’t know what we really did sacrifice, and what we’d done."See below for Mr. Burns' full testimony.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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/The-Memory-Project/image/2075_original.jpg Harvey Douglas Burns (Primary Source)
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    Hazel Wylie (Primary Source)

    The Memory Project interviewed Hazel Wylie, a veteran of the Second World War. The following recording (and transcript) is an excerpt from this interview. Born in 1924 in Quebec, Wylie served overseas in England with the Royal Air Force, where she worked as an equipment assistant. She helped train incoming girls, and kept track of supplies such as clothing, nuts and bolts, and bigger aircraft parts. In this testimony, Wylie describes her duties as equipment assistant, as well as some of her experiences at Training Command in Newton, Nottingham. She also describes her bicycle accident during a blackout, and the segregation of white and Black American soldiers at one of the camps. Wylie died on 18 December 2013 at age 89 in Carleton Place, Ontario. 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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/The-Memory-Project/image/8876_original.jpg Hazel Wylie (Primary Source)
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    Helen Jean “Jean” Crawley (Primary Source)

    "As Mr. Winston Churchill said in one of his last speeches after the war, he said “without the women, we may have lost the war.”" See below for Ms. Crawley's entire testimony. 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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/MemoryProject/HelenJeanCrawley/171_original.jpg Helen Jean “Jean” Crawley (Primary Source)
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    Herbert Lim (Primary Source)

    Herbert Lim was one of around 150 Chinese Canadians to serve with Force 136 of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. After completing his basic training with the Royal Canadian Engineers he was asked to join to join the SOE, working as wireless operator.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.

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    Howard Chan (Primary Source)

    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.

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    Howard Laatsch (Primary Source)

    Howard Laatsch served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War.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.

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    https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/images/tce_placeholder.jpg?v=e9dca980c9bdb3aa11e832e7ea94f5d9 Howard Laatsch (Primary Source)
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    Howard Sinclair Anderson (Primary Source)

    Howard Sinclair Anderson was under age when he enlisted in the army after the chief of George Gordon Reserve, a veteran of the First World War, went around looking for volunteers. Anderson became a Lance Corporal in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps during the Second World War. Discover his story of serving in France after D-Day and the discrimination he faced after returning.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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/MemoryProject/HowardSinclairAnderson/2006_original.jpg Howard Sinclair Anderson (Primary Source)
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    Hugh Bartley (Primary Source)

    "Mainly you’re so busy you don’t have time to get scared. You’re trying to get out of whatever kind of a problem you got into, and in this case the airplane made it simple for us."Hugh Bartley served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. See his full testimony below.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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/mpsb/vimy/HughBartley/567_resize.jpg Hugh Bartley (Primary Source)
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    Hugh Murray (Primary Source)

    Mr. Hugh Murray enlisted in July 1943 in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve and served aboard the cruiser HMCS Uganda, the only Canadian warship that saw action in the Pacific. This interviews focuses on two main episodes, one involving combat against the Imperial Japanese Air Force and also a vote aboard HMCS Uganda regarding the potential involvement of its sailors in the Pacific theater.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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/The-Memory-Project/image/10460_original.jpg Hugh Murray (Primary Source)
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    Hyman Chudnovsky (Primary Source)

    TranscriptMy name is Hy Chud, Chud. Served under the name of Hyman Chudnovsky, with the 17th Duke of York Royal Canadian Hussars, which was a reconnaissance regiment, armoured corps reconnaissance. It’s a Montreal outfit. We were added as reinforcement troops to this regiment [7th Reconnaissance Regiment]. It was overseas. When we went over, that’s the method I suppose, the army didn’t send full regiments over, I don’t know. But before action, we were sent in...

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/The-Memory-Project/image/6842_original.jpg Hyman Chudnovsky (Primary Source)
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    Ian Inglis (Primary Source)

    Ian Inglis joined the Royal Navy in 1941 on the Y Scheme. While still in training, he was sent on a convoy to Murmansk, Russia. Following his return he was immediately sent to North Africa to support the landings at Tripoli. He received his commission, and was transferred to a motor gunboat. While serving on the gunboat, he escorted landing craft into Juno Beach on D-Day. After the landings, the gunboat was tasked with patrolling the mouth of the Seine River. It was during one of these patrols that they captured a German explosive gunboat; Mr. Inglis was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. Mr. Inglis was then transferred to the Far East, where he served on motor gunboats in Burma until he returned to England in 1946.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.

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    https://d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net/The-Memory-Project/image/14136_original.jpg Ian Inglis (Primary Source)