KILLED IN ACTION
Lance Cpl.
Charles Munroe Schooley
Essex Scottish Regiment
Dieppe, France - August 19, 1942
To Those who Served
Seaman
Frederick F. M. Taylor
HMCS Ottawa - Atlantic Convoy
September 13, 1942
Flight Sgt.
Wesley Bethel Croft
420 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force
No. 6 Bomber Group
England - October 14, 1942
Private
Thomas Lennox Quick
Carleton and York Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Ortona, Italy- December 13, 1943
Lance Corporal
Joseph Traise Fuller
Lanark & Renfrew Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C
Mezzano, Italy- December 13, 1944
Major
Alvah Miller
Darby’s US Rangers
Cisterna, Italy- January 30, 1944
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THE MCINTAYLOR TAYLORS
EARLY MILITIA
WORLD WAR I
WORLD WAR II
AUSTRALIA
Wm Montgomery Rockliff, MM, MC
Thomas Chase
CANADA
Joseph Gilboe
Clifford J. Dunphy
Joseph LaMarsh
William Henry Gibbons
Sgt. John Markle, Butlers Rangers
Frederick Gibbons, Sapper
Peter Thomas
Ann Kendrick, Nursing Sister
Thomas Wesley Kendrick
WAR OF 1812-14
Roy Everett Oakey
Joseph Lamarsh, 19th Regt. Niagara Frontier
Archibald Dewer Oakey
Sgt. John Markle, Butlers Rangers
Thomas Quick
Thomas McCreery US Army
John Sadler
Corporal William Rockliff
Frank Edison Taylor, 70th Battalion
40th Regt of Foot (England)
Grover Cleveland Taylor, Albert Regt.
David Thomas, 2nd Battalion
1837 REBELLION
John Howard Warren, Army Medic
Robert Taylor, Canada
John Wintermute, 43rd Cameron Highlanders
Thomas McCreery, Canada
UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS
Bruce Taylor, Railway Corp
Donald Taylor, Paratrooper, RCR
Jack D. Taylor, 4th Reece Regt.
Alexander G. Taylor
W. Ray Taylor RCAF
William W.S. Taylor RCAF
Barclay Bennett, P.O. RCAF
Albert S. Cunningham
L.G. Cunningham
Burns Ellis RCN
Albert Ellis RCN
Earl Fairbairn
Stanley Fairbairn
William Gibbons, Algonquin Regt.
Willard "Bud" Locke US Army
Bill Dutot, Grenadier Guards
Maxwell Miller RCAF
Robert E. Miller, RCAF
Hugh Newman, RCAF
Florence Newman, RCAF WD
Shirley Oakey RCAF
Ted Fuller
Fred Fuller
Norman Fuller
Doug Fuller
US CIVIL WAR
George Mustard
FENIAN RAIDS 1861
James Robinson, Canada
POST WORLD WAR II
COLD WAR
AUSTRALIA
Cpt. Andrew Larkey, SAS
Cpt. Benedict Larkey SAS
Twin Brothers who have just retired from
the SAS (Special Air Service Commando
Unit)
CANADA
Frank Taylor, RCN
Loretta Joyce Taylor RCAF
Arthur W. Jewer RCAF
Daman Sadler, RCN (currently serving)
Richard Taillieu, RCAF (Bosnia, currently
serving)
Sgt. Scott Mulcaster (Bosnia, Afganistan,
currently serving
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Gary Taylor, US Army
Harold Taylor, USN
Robert Edward Taylor, USAF
John Taylor, USN
Thom Locke, USN
The names listed are those connected to the Taylor Family by birth and marriage. They likely do not include all of
those who served. Apologies to any family member missed.
RCR
RCAF
RCN
USAF
USN
Royal Canadian Regiment
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Canadian Navy
United States Air Force
United States Navy
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
Robert Taylor -1837 Rebellion
Annie Kendrick - WW1- Nurse in
France
Thomas Wesley Kendrick –
WW1
Samuel Lamarsh (father of Joseph):
Lived in Montreal Quebec, Kingston,
Amhersburg, Gosfield. Fought in the
war of 1812. Source: Canadian
Genealogy Index
Joseph LaMarsh - 19th
Regt. Niagara Frontier
1813- according to UEL
documents.
USA WW1 (unknown)
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Archibald Dewar Oakey WWI
THE MCINTAYLOR TAYLORS
William Montgmery Rockliff, MM, MC
William enlisted under the name William Rockliff Montgomery, 2nd
Lieutenant in the 3rd Infantry Brigade, 10th Battalion which was known
as the All-Australian Brigade, (3rd Australian Light Trench Mortar
Battery). The use of his mother’s name is presumed to be due to
family pressure not to enlist for political reasons, mainly strong antiBritish feelings still running keen amongst Scottish immigrants.
William was thirty-one years old when he enlisted and having been a
miner and amateur boxer possessed an impressive physique.
The 10th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF
during WW1. The Battalion was recruited in South Australia, and
together with the 9th, 11th and 12th Battalions, formed the 3rd
Brigade. The Battalion was raised within weeks of the declaration of
war in August 1914 and embarked for Gallipoli two months later, then
to Egypt after a strategic withdrawal from the Dardanelles in early
December. In March 1916, they sailed for France and the Western
Front. From then until 1918, the Battalion took part in bitter trench
warfare. The Battalion’s first major action in France was at Pozieres, a
small village. It was the scene of bitter and costly fighting. The village
was captured initially by the 1st Division on 23 July 1916. The
Division clung to its gains despite almost continuous artillery fire and
repeated German counter-attacks but suffered heavily. By the time it
was relieved on 27 July it had suffered 5,285 casualties. After Pozieres
the Battalion fought at Ypres in Flanders before returning to Somme
for winter.
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
CITATIONS
GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN
(TURKEY) - William Rockliff
Montgomery
Recommended for the MILITARY
MEDAL
“As he has shown great courage
and resource during the recent
operations and has successfully
led his men against great odds by
example and devotion to duty.”
The Gallipoli Campaign which
was a military disaster is
considered to be the coming of age
of Australia as a nation in its own
right due to the gallantry of its
soldiers against great odds and
despite disastrous leadership by
the British Officers.
It is
remembered to this day with a
public holiday on 25th April.
Australian Archives – Military Records World War 1
FRANCE
William Rockliff Montgomery
Recommended for the Military Cross by the Commanding Officer of the 3rd Aust. LTM for events of 28 September 1916 – at Ypres and 21-25 July 1916
- at Pozieres, France. (Published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1917, page 1338, and the London Gazette 21 December 1916, page 12435.)
YPRES :
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“For gallantry and devotion to duty in that he when in the trenches at YPRES
on 28th September 1916 during a duel between our Stokes Mortars and the enemy’s
minemwerfers and light mortars, one of our covered mortar emplacements was
blown in by a minemwerfer shell burying 2nd Lt. Montgomery and two men. “
“He extricated himself with difficulty being severely bruised and shaken, but at once
set to work to get the buried men out giving directions to those assisting him, after
two hours work the men were got out one of them dead. All this time 2 nd Lieut.
Montgomery directed the fire of two other mortars and kept them firing, to draw the
hostile fire. Most of the time hostile shell and trench mortar fire was maintained on
our position causing several casualties. 2 nd Lieut. Montgomery has been evacuated
wounded with shock, bruises and etc., since the above date.”
ALSO –
“At Pozieres, France, from 19th July to 26th August 1916, 2nd Lieut. Montgomery did
consistent good work in the firing line, especially during the active operations at
Pozieres from 21 - 26th July 1916 when he commanded his section under heavy shell
fire, and when his supplies of ammunition for his mortars were expended, rendered
material assistance by bombing, at which he is an expert.”
It was after the fighting at Pozières and Ypres that 2 nd Lt. William Rockliff
Montgomery was recommended for a Military Cross. It appears that the effect on
him was so severe that he was taken to hospital in England with injuries, both
physical and emotional then called “Shell Shock.”
He was repatriated to Australia and used by the Army in recruiting campaigns.
William stood for Parliament in 1917 representing the mining area of Broken Hill but
failed to gain a seat. He spent the remainder of his days as a Club Manager for the
Returned Soldiers League.
Australian Archives – Military Records World War 1
In 1918 he married Olga Pietriche, who was a sister of a fellow soldier, but the
marriage did not last. He had no children.
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
Frank Edison Taylor, son of Alexander Duncan Taylor and Carrie Dewhirst Taylor, moved to Essex in
1910 and when war was declared he enlisted in the 70th Battalion in London, Ontario in 1915.
On April 19, 1915 a party of 75 people was held at the home of Duncan Taylor to say goodbye to the boys
going overseas. In the battlefields of the Somme he was reported missing on September 18 th 1916 and had
been captured. He spent twenty-six months as a Prisoner of War in Germany. A letter from Frank to his
parents in early 1918 mentions a brave attempt to come home for Christmas (an escape attempt) which
failed five minutes short of it’s goal. The Town of Essex held a reception / party for the boys returning home
in 1919. He served the Royal Canadian Legion as Secretary and was presented with a chair for his service in
1943 in organizing the Legion Overseas Smoke fund for the WWII boys overseas. He died March 19, 1980 at
the age of 84.
Essex Free Press - April 16, 1916 – 70 th
Batt.
Essex Free Press - November 17, 1916
Frank Taylor POW
Pte. Frank Taylor - Safe in England
A.D. Taylor and wife received the joyful news on Saturday
last that their son Pte. Frank E. Taylor was safe in England.
Pte. Taylor enlisted on October 4th 1915 in the 70th Battalion
at London, went overseas shortly after, and being
transferred to another battalion went to France in 1916. On
Sept. 16, 1916 he was taken a prisoner by the Germans, and
has been in a prison camp in Germany since then being at
Fredriceasfield for some time past. Pte Taylor arrived in
England on November 23rd, and will likely be returned to
his home shortly.
Essex Free Press – December 6, 1918.
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Irwin Sadler - WW1 Transferred
to the 29 th Battalion and
wounded September 28, 1916
Roy Oakey
John Wellington Wintermute
Enlisted at Winnipeg, Manitoba into the 43rd Cameron Highlanders on
May 29, 1917 and overseas September 29, 1917. In England he was on
the Rifle team and scored second making 98 out of 100 shots at the Dibgate
Camp – Thorncliffe Hyton, Folkstone, England 11th Reserve.
This
Picture was taken at Cheriton, Kent, England He may have been used as a
sniper when he went to France March 17, 1918. After 7 months in
France he was subjected to a Gas attack and wounded and sent back to
England October 23, 1918 for treatment and recovery at Epsom
Convalescent Camp Hospital. He left the hospital and returned to Canada
January 12, 1919 and discharged February 12, 1919 . (source: Attestation
Papers and family history held at Kingsville Historical Park.)
Fred Sadler – WW1
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
Front - Fred Sadler, Joe Percival, William Crozier back -Mansel and
Gerald Robinson – WW1. photo taken in England 1918
(Photo courtesy of Marsha Sadler)
99th Battalion trained in Essex. Above photo would be on Talbot Street
at Laird Avenue. Some of the local boys there might include - Fred
Gibbons, Harry Gibbons, T.W. Kendrick, Tom Quick, J.F. Sadler, Irwin
Sadler, Frank E. Taylor, J.H. Warren (photo courtesy of Marsha Sadler )
T.W. Kendrick - back left
(Photo courtesy of Eleanor (Kendrick) Robinson)
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Donald Taylor, son of Florence (Switzer) Taylor and
William Walter Taylor (Gosfield North) enlisted in the
Canadian Army. Royal Canadian Regiment,
Paratroopers when he was 16 years old.
Don trained in Shiloh Manitoba where he received his
paratrooper wings and when he turned 18
volunteered for experimental chemical testing. These
men were sworn to keep the testing a secret. That
secret he kept and took to his grave.
After receiving his Paratrooper
Wings
Don in uniform with his future
wife Pauline Grondin
If it wasn't for the fact his mother remembered treating
his many sores when he came home on leave, Don’s
service would have gone unknown and never
acknowledged. He suffered many health problems
after being discharged and for the remainder of his
life. After his death, his daughter Marie searched for
answers regarding his military service and
information regarding this testing. After 15 years of
research and government requests, the Canadian Donald W. Taylor WW2 Paratrooper in the Royal
government finally acknowledged that he along with Canadian Regiment
many others took part in Top Secret Government (Photos, documents and information courtesy of
Chemical Warfare Laboratories program using Marie (Taylor) Nesbitt)
mustard gas and other chemical agents that took place
at a location near Ottawa. To this day the Department of National Defence of Canada has refused to
give any details regarding which chemicals were used. In 2004 a posthumous thank you and
acknowledgement was received from the Government of Canada signed by General Hillier for the
sacrifices Private Donald Taylor made for his country
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
2004 – Acknowledgment by Departmnt of National Defenc e of
Chemical Testing done on soldiers during World War Two. 60
years after the soldiers were sworn to secrecy and 15 years
after the death of Donald Taylor.
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THE MCINTAYLOR TAYLORS
"The Joker(Wm Taylor), Cumming, Cox 1945 in
Hagersville,
William F. Gibbons
Algonquin Regiment
(WW2 - Belgium, Holland,
Germany).
Letter to Wenonah Taylor (left)
written August 9, 1945 while Bill
was in Holland. Wenonah was his
aunt, the mother of William Taylor
and close friend of his wife Mary.
William Walter Scott Taylor, LAC,
Royal Canadian Air Force
Electrician 1943-46
(right) William "Ike" with his mother,
Wenonah (Chase) Taylor
Bill, also known as Ike and “the Joker”, volunteered and was accepted into
the RCAF when he was 19. After training a #1 Manning Depot, Toronto
he was stationed in Hagersville, Uplands, Ontario and St. Jean, Quebec.
He was accepted into the RCAF because of education & experience he had to
work as an electrician. He would work repairing the electronics in the
aircraft used for training in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
He received additional training while in the Air Force and would often need
to go on testing flights (which he didn’t like) and or course pilot’s then
enjoyed making his trip a little scary. He was released from service in 1946
under Reserve Class 1 and never received a full discharge.
Before enlisting Bill married Mary
Zelenak (top left)in December 1942.
After training Bill was sent
overseas and landed in Europe just
after D-Day. His regiment spent
time in Holland and Belgium and
then moved into Germany.
(Photo courtesy of Pearl
Cunningham)
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
Jack Donald Taylor riding in side car in
England
Bill Dutot - WW2 Grenadier
Guards (Photo courtesy of Orpha
(Warren) Dutot)
Shirley Oakey, RCAF - WW2 – photo
with father Archie Oakey in his WW1
Uniform (Photo courtesy of Lucille Oakey)
William Arlington Taylor, USArmy
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Bud Locke – WW2 – US Navy
(Photo courtesy of Madonna
(Taylor) Locke)
THE MCINTAYLOR TAYLORS
Frederick Francis Monroe Taylor - lost at
sea
In Memory of
Able Seaman
FREDERICK FRANCIS MONROE
TAYLOR
V/19524, H.M.C.S. Ottawa.,
Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve
who died age 22
on 13 September 1942
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Taylor,
of Essex, Ontario.
Remembered with honour
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
At 02.05 hours on 14 September 1942 the German submarine U-91(Walkerling) fired a
spread of two torpedoes at a destroyer and observed a hit. Then they saw another
destroyer, made a full circle and fired at 02.15 hours one torpedo, which hit amidships and
caused the ship to blow up and sink immediately. Walkerling thought that they had sunk
two destroyers, but in fact HMCS Ottawa (A/Lt.Cdr. Clark Anderson Rutherford, RCN),
escorting convoy ON-127, was hit twice and sank in position 47º55'N, 43º27'W (German
naval grid BC 6191) with the loss of 114 crew. There were 67 survivors.
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
SCHOOLEY, CHARLES MUNROE
In Memory of
LANCE CORPORAL CHARLES MUNROE SCHOOLEY,
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Originally reported missing
Reported killed on the 216th List of Causalities at Dieppe
Service Number: A22015
Son of William and May Schooley; husband of Marguerite Schooley,
of Windsor, Ontario.
Cemetery: Dieppe Canadian War
Cemetery Hautotsurmer
Country: France
Area: Seine Maritime
Rank: Lance Corporal
Official Number: A/22015
Unit: Essex Scottish Regiment RCIC
Force: Army
Nationality: Canadian
19th August 1942 Age 26
Son of William and May Schooley;
husband of Marguerite Schooley of
Windsor Ontario
Photograph and details by volunteer/s:
David Milborrow on http://twgpp.org
Charles Munroe Schooley was the son of William Joseph Schooley and
Margaret May Riley. His father, William Joseph Schooley died when he
was only 5 years old. at the home of his Aunt Hannah (Schooley) Taylor
in 1918 from pneumonia. Hannah was the grandmother of Frederick
Francis Munroe Taylor. Charles married Marguerite Darling and they had
two children. Charles Munroe Schooley was a cousin of Frederick
Francis Munroe Taylor, who died the month following Charles on
September 13, 1942. The loss of these two young men less than one
month apart in 1942 must have been a devastating loss to this close family
in a small town.
The Dieppe Raid of 18-19 August 1942 was the first large scale daylight
assault on a strongly held objective on the Continent since the Allied
withdrawal of 1940. The largely Canadian military force undertook the
main assault on Dieppe itself, with flanking assaults by Commando units
and additional Canadian battalions to the east and west of the town
intended to neutralise batteries that commanded the direct approach. Support was provided by more than 250
naval vessels and 69 air squadrons. Only the assaulting parties on the extreme flanks came within reasonable
reach of their ambitious objectives and casualties were very heavy, with more than 3,600 of the military force of
6,100 killed, wounded, missing or captured. Naval casualties numbered 550. Many of those who died in the raid
are buried at Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery.
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Alvah M. Miller,
Commander 3rd Battalion, Major
Ranger of the Darby’s Rangers fame.
Trained at Achnacarry Castle,
Spean Bridge, Lochaber, Scotland
Died in Cisterna, Italy on January 30, 1944.
Among the KIA was the 3rd Battalion CO, Major Alvah Miller, and the 1st
Battalion CO, Major John Dobson, was wounded. The tragic loss of the 1st
and 3rd Battalions combined with the heavy casualties the 4th Battalion
sustained, however, was not entirely in vain, for later intelligence
revealed that the Ranger-led attack on Cisterna had helped spike the
planned German counterattack and thwarted Hitler's order to "Push the
Allies into the sea.". Alvah was an original Ranger from the first days in
Scotland (at Achnacarry Castle)
He was killed in action at Cisterna, Italy on the night of January 30, 1944,
the 1st and 3rd Battalions infiltrated 5 miles behind the German Lines
while the 4th Battalion fought to clear the road toward Cisterna, a key 5th
Army objective. But preparing for a massive counterattack, the Germans
had reinforced their lines the night before, and both the 1st and 3rd were
surrounded and greatly outnumbered. The beleaguered Rangers fought
bravely, inflicting many casualties but ran out of both ammunition and
time.
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
In Memory of
Warrant Officer Class II,
WESLEY BETHEL CROFT,
R/83002,
420 Sqdn. Royal Canadian Air Force,
who died age 20 on 14 October 1942
Son of Bethel T. Croft and Ellen Kendrick Croft, of
Maidstone,, Ontario, Canada.
Remembered with honour at the Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire, UK (source Commonwealth War Graves
Commission)
October 13, 1942: Attack on Kiel: In poor visibility the plane overshot flare path and runway at
Leeming. The pilot tried to go around for another attempt but at low altitude and engine was
heard to quit resulting in the plane crashing into a house. Fire consumed the crash site. DE636
"S": WB Croft; REE Curd; AM Wardrop, WJ Jones, HJT Gray.
Operations of October 13/42: Ten aircraft (Vickers Wellington) on ops. Three successfully bombed
target. One was damaged slightly when it crashed into another. One had a forced landing causing
injuries to two crew members. One aircraft crashed into a house while landing at Leeming in poor
weather. All five crew were killed. On route to the target BK295 "H", flown by P/O Hynam, was in
collision with an unidentified aircraft at 14000 feet near the Danish coast. The crew jettisoned the
bombs and turned for base. The collision cut off about 1 foot of the tail and rudder as well as
October 30, 1942 Essex
damaging the port wing. Only "O" and "N' reached the primary target. The target was illuminated
Free Press
by PFF. Large fires were developing as the result of the attacks. "J" attacked a concentration of
search lights near Kiel and "U" attacked a town. X3963 "D" crashed at Docking with no serious
injuries to the crew. The pilot, P/O Adilman, tried to overshoot but the engines cut out and the
Windsor Star 1942
aircraft stalled. DE636 "S" piloted by WB Croft with crew members, REE Curd; AM Wardrop, WJ
Jones, HJT Gray crashed at Leeming killing all aboard. On this night Bomber Command targeted
Kiel with 288 planes. Half the force was tricked by decoy fires to bomb countryside. Extensive damage was reported to roofs. The mix of bombs used
by Bomber Command included large blast bombs, which were supposed to blow the roofs off building. Once the roofs were damaged incendiaries
would be able to fall into the roofless structures enabling fires to start more easily. Only about 140 casualties were reported.
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In Memory of
Private THOMAS LENNOX QUICK
In Memory of
THOMAS LENNOX QUICK
A/116242,
Carleton and York Regiment, R.C.I.C.
who died age 21 on 13 December 1943
Son of Thomas Seymour Quick and
Lena Florence Quick, of Essex, Ontario.
Remembered with honour
MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR
CEMETERY
Essex Free Press – December 31 , 1943
Essex Free Press - December 24,
1943
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
In Memory of
Lance Corporal
JOSEPH TRAIES FULLER
Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C
Service No: A/118065
Age 19
Born 18 February 1925
Died on 13 December 1944
Shortly after landing in Italy
Son of Frederick John and Eva Traies Fuller, of
Kingsville, Ontario.
VILLANOVA CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Country: Italy. Villanova lies in the Commune
of Bagnacavallo in the Province of Ravenna. Historical Information: On 3 September 1943 the Allies invaded the
Italian mainland, the invasion coinciding with an armistice made with the Italians who then re-entered the war on the Allied side. Following the fall of
Rome to the Allies in June 1944, the German retreat became ordered and successive stands were made on a series of defensive lines. In the northern
Appenine mountains the last of these, the Gothic Line, was breached by the Allies
during the Autumn campaign and the front inched forward as far as Ravenna in the
Adratic sector, but with divisions transferred to support the new offensive in France,
and the Germans dug in to a number of key defensive positions, the advance stalled as
winter set in. The site of this cemetery was chosen by the 5th Canadian Armoured
Division for battlefield burials. It was in the vicinity of Villanova that troops of this
Division succeeded in establishing a bridgehead over the River Lamone in the night
10/11 December 1944. West of this bridgehead there was heavy fighting in the
following days, when attempts were made to cross the three canals that run from
Faenza to the sea. From 12 to 15 December, the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment
and the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards suffered heavily in these attempts, and 85
of the burials in the cemetery come from these two regiments. Others include those Ted Fuller (father) & Fred, Norman, Doug, Joe KIA)
killed in the advance to the final line held by the Canadians on the River Senio before (photo courtesy of Kingsville History Park collection)
they left Italy in February 1945. Villanova Canadian War Cemetery contains 212
Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.
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POST WWII – COLD WAR
Frank Taylor,
Royal Canadian Navy 1958.
Photo taken at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia
during training.
Frank served on the HMCS Kootenay,
Algonquin and Assiniboine. On the “Newfie
Patrol” looking for Russian Submarines
during the Cold War.
HMCS Kootenay (DND photo)
HMCS Algonquin (DND photo)
HMCS Assiniboine (DND photo)
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TO THOSE WHO SERVED
POST WWII
COLD WAR – MARVILLE, FRANCE
Loretta Joyce Taylor, RCAF was born in Kingsville, Ontario in 1938, followed in the
footsteps of her father, Jack Donald Taylor who served in WW2 and her grandfather - Ted
Fuller, and uncles. Fred, Norman, Doug & Joe Fuller. Joe was killed in Italy 13 December 1944.
Loretta Joyce Taylor, LAW Group 3z,
Medical Assistant, Royal Canadian Air
Force. (LAW Leading Air Woman equivalent of
army corporal)
Arthur Winston Jewer, LAC LTecA,
Royal Canadian Air Force, (LAC-Leading
Aircraftman – equivalent to army corporal)
The family left Kingsville and moved to Windsor August of 1946. Joyce attended Walkerville
Collegiate Institute taking the Commercial Courses to lead to a clerical career. After graduation
she worked as a clerk at Motor Products Limited on Walker Road near Seminole Street from
May 1953 until May 1958 when she joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. Basic Training at St.
Jean Quebec began the first week in June 1958 and then on to RCAF Station Hospital Trenton,
Ontario to await a transfer to RCAF Station Aylmer for training in the RCAF Medical Corps
with post grad training
at
RCAF
Station
Rockcliff, Ottawa. She
was then transferred
RCAF
Station
Greenwood,
Nova
Scotia, a major base in
Maritime Command, to
join the base hospital
staff. May 1960 Joyce
was transferred to 1 Air
Division,
RCAF
1
Fighter Wing, Marville,
France
until
she
mustered
out
in
November 1962.
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On the personal side of service life; Joyce met Winston Jewer when they were both at St. Jean, Quebec for Basic Training but Joyce, who
was in the Medical Corp, would go to Trenton, Aylmer, and Rockliff for medical training and Win would go to Clinton, Borden and
Gimli, Manitoba for training as an Aircraft Electrician. Four years later in 1962 they discovered they were both stationed at 1 Fighter
Wing, Marville, France when they met while on a Nuclear Training Course. They were married by the Mayor of Marville, Montmedy,
Meuse the 24 September 1962 and were married again in the Protestant Church at RCAF 1(F) Wing Marville, France the 26 September
1962. Joyce mustered out of the RCAF and their daughter Dara-Jane was born in 1963 at RCAF 1(F) Wing Marville, France in the base
hospital. Joyce & Win then lived in Lamorteau, Belgium and Dara Jane became a landed dependent entering Canada for the first time
12 October 1965 with her parents Joyce and Winston Jewer. Winston mustered out of Air Force from RCAF station Uplands, Ottawa,
Ontario in 1966 and moved to their home on Elinor Street, Windsor, Ontario he started working at Ford Motor Company first starting on
the line, then Plant Production, and then took his
USA -VIETNAM ERA
apprenticeship through Ford Motor to become an
electrician. At that time the Air Force training was
not recognized on “civi street”. Win retired from
Ford Motor year 2000.
Joyce went to work in 1965 for the Metropolitan
General Hospital working as a cashier and
Admitting Clerk until 1974. In 1974 Joyce was hired
by IODE hospital aka Windsor Western Hospital
Centre aka Windsor Regional Hospital. Joyce
started IODE as a clerk in the Emergency
Department she was later promoted to Director of
Admitting, Health Records Supervisor then
Director of the Health Sciences Library after
attending classes at Wayne State University. Joyce
retired in the year 2000 and both Joyce & Win still
reside in their home on Elinor Street in Windsor.
Gary Taylor US Army
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Tom Locke, US Navy
TO THOSE WHO SERVED
AUSTRALIA
CANADA –BOSNIA-AFGHANISTAN
CURRENTLY SERVING
Afghanistan 2010 Sgt. Scott Mulcaster, Royal Canadian Dragoons
(Bosnia, Afghanistan, currently serving )
Twins- Larkey brothers from Australia
Captain Andrew Larkey & Captain Benedict
Larkey -SAS (Special Air Service) which is based on the
model of the British Commandos. Both have recently
retired and run private businesses
Daman Sadler,-Royal Canadian Navy, graduated
from training 2011
Aircraft technicians from
8 Wing Trenton's 424
Transport and Rescue
Squadron, Sergeant Rick
Taillieu, Master
Corporal Bill Shanessy,
MCpl Steve Williams,
Corporal Mike Azpiroz,
and Corporal Brad
Stewart (not seen in
Photo) remove the blades
from CH 113 Labrador
11301. Which will be part
of the Canada. Ceremony
was held there on 27 July
2004. CF Photo by Warrant
Officer Serge Peters
Sergeant Rick Taillieu (front right) facing helicopter
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THE MCINTAYLOR TAYLORS
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