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Memory Project Archive
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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Harry Fogel (Primary Source)
Harry Fogel served in the Canadian 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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Harry Hurwitz (Primary Source)
"Being Jewish, you know, Hitler, he murdered six million Jews, and I felt it my duty to join up and fight the Axis Powers." See below for Mr. Hurwitz'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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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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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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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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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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Helen Arbuthnot (Primary Source)
Helen Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, a Nursing Sister that served in England and in Italy. When we arrived in Alton after landing in Scotland... and then train trip right across the countryside and then down into Hants, England, we were billeted out with English families. I was rather upset at that point. I hated going into a new home and not knowing the people too well. But it all turned out great. We worked very hard. Never...
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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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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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Horace "Gerry" Gerrard (Primary Source)
Horace "Gerry" Gerrard served in the Royal Canadian Army 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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Howard Cameron (Primary Source)
In 2003, The Memory Project interviewed Howard Cameron, a veteran of the Second World War. The following recording (and transcript) is an excerpt from this interview. Cameron enlisted in the Royal Canadian Artillery (see Canadian Army) in September 1939, in his hometown of Sarnia, Ontario. He went overseas in June 1940 and, after training in England, became a lieutenant; in 1944, he joined the 19th Field Regiment, which was then stationed in the Netherlands. In this testimony, Cameron describes several anecdotes from his service in the Netherlands and Germany, including his unit’s celebrations when they learned the war was over. After his return from Europe, Cameron attended medical school at Western University and became an orthopedic surgeon, eventually becoming the Chief of Orthopedics at St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he remained for 25 years. Cameron died in London, Ontario, on 4 September 2019. 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)
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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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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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