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WWII Records and Photos

1.  Auxiliary Territorial Service, WWII

2.  Merchant Navy, WWII

3.  Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit, WWII

4.  Royal Air Force, WWII

5.  Royal Navy / Merchant Navy, WWII

6. Royal Newfoundland Artillery / Royal Newfoundland Regiment, WWII

7. Halstead Gosse recalls his days in the navy

8. Every Loss a bitter one (Wilson Avery)

9. Time doesn’t heal (Wilson Avery)

10.  Veteran recalls the dark days of Second World War (Leander Drodge)

11. Archibald Frederick Drover – Royal Rifles of Canada

 

(Note: Special thanks to the Royal Canadian Legion, Clarenville for providing us with many of the pictures you will see on this page.)

 

Avery, Chester_Long Beach
Avery, Ernest_Long Beach
Avery, Nicholas_Hillview Clement Peddle_Hodge's Cove
Avery, Wilson_Long Beach
Barfitt, Heber Harvey
Benson, Thomas_Long Beach
Bishop, Noah_Hatchet Cove
Blundon. John K_Hatchet Cove (Windsor)
John Blundon WW2 Royal Navy, Hatchet Cove 001
Butt, Cyril Elijah_St. Jones Within
Butt, William George_Queens Cove
Churchill, Caleb_Hodge's Cove
Churchill, Charles_Hillview
George Churchill, Hodge's Cove, Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit, WWII
Churchill, Kenneth_Hillview
Churchill, Walter_Hillview
Dean, Arthur Fredrick_Southport
Dodge, Archibald (Archer)_Little Hearts Ease
Dodge, Joseph_Little Hearts Ease
Drodge, Leander_Little Hearts Ease
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New Items

- Donations to War Memorial Fund
- Lay the keel of a 60-ton schooner
- Obituary for Eldred Goobie, 1999
- Glad he joined the Royal Naval Reserve
- A Fire Alarm, 1916
- Child Fires House, 1916
- Little Heart's Ease Solid for Govt.
- Photos Northern Bight Station
- Heart's Ease Notes, 1917
- Obituary for Mary M. (Smith) Avery, 2010
- Obituary for Rita (Smith) Houlahan
- Wedding Bells, Smith-Spurrell, 1920
- Obituary for Ida Marguerite (Stoyles) Newman Reynolds
- A Soldier's Cousin Writes
- A Mother's Sacrifice
- SUF Parade 1925
- Obituary for Leander Drodge, 2010
- Obituary for Ethel Frances Jacobs
- Heart's Ease Notes, January 28, 1919
- Obituaries for Thomas Smith, 1918 and Amelia (Langer) Strowbridge, 1919
- Incidents of Winter Travel, 1911
- Poem "In Memoriam" written by William Henry Smith, 1936
- Simeon Vey and George Peddle receipts from Ryan Brothers
- Memorial to Leander Drover
- Autobiography of a Salvation Army Teacher in 1955
- 15 photos of Butter Cove
- The Halifax Explosion: A Reservist Writes Home, December 1917
- Master Boatbuilder [Eleazer Hiscock]
- Tragic Loss of HMS Laurentic
- Obituary for Nehemiah Stringer
- Obituaries for Allan Dean, Mildred Smith, and Marguerite Stringer
- War Memorial
- The Soldier Behind the Statue [Leander Green]
- Sarah Francis
- Back Where he Belongs
- Prisoner of War, The shocking true story of Private Andrew Shaw
- Two photos added to People of Little Heart's Ease
- Two photos added to People of Butter Cove Collection
- Obituary for Alex Strowbridge, March 1991
- Two new photos of People of Caplin Cove
- Seven new photos of People of Little Heart's Ease
- Three new photos of People of Butter Cove
- Added image to Midwife Jessie (Benson) Strong Price page
- Obituaries for Anne Barfett, Gordon Loder, James Roy Parsons, Gerald Price, Allison Spurrell, Marie Stringer, Ross Vivian, and Karen Whalen
- School desk added to Virtual Museum
- 13 photos of Butter Cove
- New photo of Butter Cove children

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