Gunner Redvers Albert Adair Royal Canadian Army. Killed on August 31, 1944 in Italy at age 24. Son of
Hugh and Rose Adair. Buried at the MONTECCHIO WAR CEMETERY in Italy.
Click here to learn more about Redvers Adair and a picture of his War medals
Mervin Brampton Army, killed in the Netherlands on April 5, 1945. Burried at the HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY in the Netherlands. The great majority of Canadians burried in the Holten Canadian War Cemetery died during the last stages of the war in Holland. At the end of the war, the remains of over 1,300 Canadian soldiers were brought into this cemetery. Please click here to see more information about Cpl. Brampton and to see many pictures of this young man
Roy Evans Click here to see a picture of Roy Evans and to learn about him
Frank James Click here to learn more about Officer Frank James
F/O Leonard Charles Robert Leach , Royal Canadian Air Force, killed in 1942. After a crewman reported ill, Leonard volunteered to take the crewman's place on a bombing mission over Europe. The plane crashed upon returning to England and Leonard Leach was killed. Click here to learn more about Leonard Leach and to see a picture of him
Pilot Officer Alexander Russell McIntyre . Child of Lorraine and Alexander "Sandy" McIntyre. Royal Canadian Air Force, killed in 1943 at age 20 in a training flight over northern England. Buried in BATH (HAYCOMBE)cemetery in Sommerset, United Kingdom. Please see Russell's graduation photo in the class of 1942 on this web site. Click here to read the complete profile
CQMS James William McMonagle . Click here to read a biography of James McMonagle contributed by Mrs. Thea McMonagle
Francis Robert McMonagle Click here to read a biography of Francis Robert McMonagle
Frank Levi Olsen Child of Christian and Mathilda Olsen of Dryden. Air Force. Killed on November 10,1942. Click here to see a picture of Frank Olsen
James Thomas Reid Royal Canadian Air Force. James went missing on September 13, 1942. Enlisted as a navigator,
James left on a plane with two or three other airman and the plane never returned to England. Of the 17,000 Canadians
who gave their lives in the Canadian Air Force, one-third of all who died have no known grave. James' name is commemorated
at the RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL cemetery in Surrey England. Above the entrance way to this cemetery is the following
inscription:
Gordon Allan Smith Child of Francis Theadore Smith and
Emma Jane Smith of Wabigoon. Killed on
December 6, 1943. More information to follow. Click here to see a picture of Gordon
and to see a picture of the cemetery where his name is commemorated
Frank Trist: Killed in active duty in Italy William Van Koughnett Killed by a land mine in Holland
in 1944 at age 26. Brother of Clifford Van Koughnett. Click here to see a
picture of
William Van
Koughnet and to learn more about him
Private John Heath Vost. Killed on October 30th, 1944. Click here to learn more
about John including pictures of John with other Dryden boys.
Click here to
learn about how Dryden High contributed during World War II
Click
here to read a number of newspaper articles of Dryden serviceman.
Contributed by Mrs. Vi (Schneider) Stansfield
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
THEY DIED FOR
FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF
NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
Click here to see a picture of James
Thomas Reid and to learn more about him
Click
here to see a few pictures of Frank Trist and to learn
more about this young man.
A picture of Dryden men who
served
during WW1.
Pictures of the 94th Battalion
in Dryden
Contributed by Barb Toskovitch
2 photographs from WW1. Provided by
Barb Toskovitch
A picture of a typical post card
sent to an enlisted soldier
Pictures as a
paratrooper
by Harry Dzeoba of Dryden
Picture of an unknown
Canadian
Soldier
Pictures of Berlin
Before World War II
Picture of Nazi Flag through Dryden
Story about Esther Ernewein
Story about Maudi Lundmark
The story of two
Holocaust Victims
Map of Jewish people in World made by Nazis
Picture of Jewish People forced to report to
police
Click here to learn more about
World War
2
May they always be remembered