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COULTER w@ca.on.middlesex_county.london 1939-1945 memorial
"Members of Wesley United Church, London, Ontario who volunteered for Active Service with Canada's Fighting Forces"
Located in Wesley-Knox United Church, Askin Street, London, Ontario
COULTER
Bernard
204 names indexed Sep 2001 by Bob Logan of
OGS London-Middlesex Branch
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COULTER w@ca.on.simcoe_county.mara.brechin 1939-1945 memorial
plaque at township offices:
"our fallen heroes of the two World Wars"
COULTER
Everett,
"Dedicated by the Township of Mara"
transcribed 1998 by Bernice Fawcett of Brechin
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COULTER w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury 1939-1945 memorial
COULTER
E.
M. air force died WW2
COULTER
Hubert air force died WW2
Book of Remembrance at Sudbury City Hall
indexed 1997 by
John Allan of OGS Sudbury Branch
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COULTER w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury 1939-1945 volunteer_list
COULTER
J.
Wesley air force
"For King and Country - Members of St Andrew's United Church
who have volunteered for active service with Canada's fighting forces"
358 names on painting by
Alfred Joseph Casson
indexed at October 1998
OGS Sudbury Branch meeting
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COULTER w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury.sudbury_star 1948-10-09 published
COULTER E. M. Royal Canadian Air Force missing presumed dead
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COULTIER w@ca.on.algoma_district.sault_sainte_marie 1939-1945 memorial
COULTIER A. E. Royal Canadian Air Force
names and cenotaph photos by Peter and Lynne Miller published
Sault This Week 2000-11-11
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COUPE w@ca.on.sudbury_district.chelmsford 1939-1945 memorial
COUPE S
wall plaque at Royal Canadian Legion Chelmsford Branch 553
indexed 1998 by
OGS Sudbury Branch
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COUPER w@ca.on.peterborough_county.peterborough 1939-1945
COUPER
J.
S.
"In memory of the chivalry of our men and women who fought and died
defending humanity against agression" "Their name liveth for evermore"
Peterborough City Hall Book of Remembrance and cenotaph and Legion Branch 52 list
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COUSINEAU w@ca.on.nipissing_district.north_bay 1939-1945
rebuilt memorial wall - names on right side of main arch
COUSINEAU
Alfred
E.
T.
indexed 2012 by John and Lynda Allan of OGS
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COUSINS w@ca.on.muskoka_district.huntsville 1939-1945
COUSINS
E.
D.
Corporal served WW2
COUSINS
K.
Sapper served WW2
COUSINS
N.
E. co served WW2
COUSINS
W.
G. served WW2
"Honour Roll" 390 names at Huntsville Post Office indexed Aug 2001 by
OGS Sudbury Branch
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COUTER w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury.sudbury_star 1948-10-09 published
COUTER Hubert Royal Canadian Air Force killed in Mediteranean area
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COUTURIER w@ca.on.simcoe_county.medonite.coldwater 1939-1945
COUTURIER G.A.
"The Last Post" list on wall of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 270 Coldwater
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COVELL w@ca.on.lanark_county.smith's_falls 1939-1945 cenotaph
COVELL
Lorne
We Will Remember Them
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COWAN w@ca.on.muskoka_district.bracebridge 1939-1945 cenotaph
COWAN
Walter▼
"Lest we forget - In memory of the men of Bracebridge and District who made
the supreme sacrifice"
indexed 1999 by
John Allan of OGS Sudbury Branch allanj@eastlink.ca
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COWAN w@ca.on.muskoka_district.bracebridge.saint_thomas_anglican 1939-1945
"Those who served from this Parish in the war of 1939-1945"
COWAN
William▼
Royal
Canadian
Air Force
wall plaque and list indexed Aug 2001 by
OGS Sudbury Branch
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COWAN w@ca.on.muskoka_district.muskoka_lakes.port_carling 1939-1945
"Honor Roll 1939-1945" plaque on wall at Port Carling Legion Branch 529
COWAN
Norman
E.
COWAN
Walter▲
S.
COWAN
Wilfred▲▼
S.
85 names indexed Aug 2001 by
John Allan of OGS Sudbury Branch
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COWAN w@ca.on.simcoe_county.medonite.coldwater 1939-1945
COWAN
L.
"The Last Post" list on wall of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 270 Coldwater
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COWAN w@ca.on.wellington_county.guelph 1939-1945 memorial
Roll of Honor In Memoriam list at Guelph Memorial Gardens (municipal arena)
COWAN
David L
COWAN
William▲
Macd
indexed 1998 by
OGS Wellington County Branch
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COWAN w@holland.wilnis 1943
o@ca.on.york_county.globe_and_mail 2002-11-27 published
Town salutes Canadian heroes
60 years later, Dutch community recalls how three airmen died
to save lives
By Roberta
COWAN
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, November
27, 2002 -- Print Edition, Page A1
Amsterdam -- By the hundreds, with wreaths of red orchids and
white roses, they came to pay respects to the Canadians who saved
their town.
Young and old, they came to the Dutch Reform Church in Wilnis
to honour the three men who, in 1943, chose to go down with their
plane rather than risk many more lives in the Dutch community.
They came to pay thanks to the Canadian relatives -- 18 next
of kin -- who also were among the mourners. And after six decades,
they came to help put to rest one of the great mysteries of Canadian
military history.
Just about everyone in Wilnis turned up last night to view three
caskets that were draped in Canadian flags and bore the remains
of three airmen, whose Vickers Wellington bomber was shot down
by a German fighter on May 5, 1943.
Amazingly, the aircraft and the remains of Sergeants Adrien
THIBAUDEAU
and Joseph
WHITE/WHYTE sank in a bog and were discovered just two months
ago by a special search team. Some of the remains of a third
crew member, Warrant Officer Robert
MOULTON, were also found
in the plane.
The men will receive a full military funeral this morning at
Wilnis cemetery, presided over by two Canadian ministers and
a bagpiper, before all eyes in the town turn to a flypast of
Dutch military planes in the "lost man" formation -- three ahead
and one behind.
A military guard, representing all parts of the Canadian Forces,
will lead the procession, followed by Dutch war veterans and
many of the townspeople who remember the night the bomber crashed
in a nearby field rather than in their town.
In the town of 10,000 people, just south of Amsterdam, all schools
will also be closed so that children carrying Canadian flags
can line the route to the cemetery.
"Usque ad finem," a banner in the church reads. "Until the very
end."
For decades, the heroism of the Canadian crew that stayed with
their plane until the very end has been part of Wilnis lore.
Two of the five crew members parachuted out of the plane after
it was attacked during its return from a night raid in which
600 Allied planes raided Dortmund, just across the German border.
Although the two were taken prisoner by German forces and released
at the end of the war, they never knew what happened to the rest
of their crew. The two men, Sergeant Gordon
CARTER and Sergeant
Howard HODDINOTT, died many decades later.
Britain's Royal Air Force made efforts to recover the plane when
the war ended, but failed to do so, and the investigation was
put to rest. The families endured years of not knowing what happened
to their airmen.
Some of Warrant Officer
MOULTON's remains were found and buried
in the local cemetery decades ago. But with no evidence of Sgts.
THIBAUDEAU and
WHITE/WHYTE, they were listed as missing in action until
this year.
"My father went to Holland after the war to try and figure what
the hell happened to my brother," Sgt.
THIBAUDEAU's younger brother
Jean-Claude, now 70, said yesterday. "We were told he was lost
in flight, which means his plane crashed, but nobody knew where."
The renewed bid to find the bomber began several years ago, when,
prompted by a grandson's history lesson, an older Wilnis man
came forward to say how he had watched the burning bomber crash
into a nearby farmer's field. With the country under Nazi invasion,
the lad snuck out of the family home and ran to find that the
plane had landed in a peat bog and was sinking quickly. The next
morning, only water remained.
A local teacher and others founded a group that fought reluctant
officials and red tape to have the plane excavated, a process
that concluded last September.
"Remarkably, the bomber, its contents and most importantly, the
remains of Sgts.
THIBAUDEAU and
WHITE/WHYTE, were fairly well preserved
in the peat," said Robert DE
JONG, head of the Dutch Royal Army's
excavation effort.
The Canadians planning to attend the service were of mixed emotions
yesterday -- nostalgic for times long past, sad for their lost
relatives and Friends, appreciative of the effort made in Wilnis.
Mr. THIBAUDEAU was moved by the discovery of his brother's remains,
calling it "painful" that it happened after the death of his
parents, who knew Adrien best.
Peggy CARTER, a Winnipeg woman whose navigator husband Sgt.
CARTER
died in 1990, hopes to be given her husband's ruler, which was
found in the wreckage. She and Jan
HODDINOTT, the widow of the
other PoW, were hoping to pay their respects on behalf of their
husbands.
"Although my husband rarely talked about the war or being a PoW,
and he never wanted to come back to Europe after the war ended,
he would have wanted to be here today to pay respect to his Friends,"
Mrs. CARTER said.
"It's so very sad that all this information came out after Gordon
died, because he really believed the plane crashed in the North
Sea," she added.
According to her husband's debriefing report, which he later
filed to Allied forces in Britain, Warrant Officer Moulton told
them to bail out two minutes after the bomber was hit. Sgt.
CARTER
woke up in a field, where a farm family found him and took him
in before handing him over to the Germans.
Mrs. CARTER's son Kevin, 51, said his father never faulted the
family who handed him over since Nazis were killing people for
harbouring Allied airmen.
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COWEY w@ca.on.northumberland_county.haldimand.vernonville.saint_andrew's_united 1939-1945 memorial
"For King And Country - Members of the Community Of Vernonville
Who Have Volunteered For Active Service with Canada's Fighting Forces"
COWEY
Cecil
plaque with 36 names indexed 2002
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COWIE w@ca.on.sudbury_district.creighton.creighton_mine 1939-1945
members of Creighton Mine Public School served WW2
COWIE
Albert▼ killed
COWIEE
Eric▼
list of 127 names at Anderson Farm Museum indexed 2000 by
OGS Sudbury Branch
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COWIEE w@ca.on.sudbury_district.creighton.creighton_mine 1939-1945
members of Creighton Mine Public School served WW2
COWIE
Albert▲ killed
COWIEE
Eric▲
list of 127 names at Anderson Farm Museum indexed 2000 by
OGS Sudbury Branch
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COWLEY w@ca.on.carleton_county.ottawa.saint_andrew_presbyterian 1939-1945
"To the Glory of God and his Sacred Memory of Those from this Church Who
Died on Active Service that we Might Live and
in Gratitude for Those Whom
it Pleased God to Bring Home Again"
COWLEY
Alan served WW2
COWLEY
Edwin died WW2
COWLEY
Robert served WW2
transcribed by Mike Schryer July 2000
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COWLING w@ca.on.peterborough_county.peterborough 1939-1945
COWLING
J.
W.
"In memory of the chivalry of our men and women who fought and died
defending humanity against agression" "Their name liveth for evermore"
Peterborough City Hall Book of Remembrance and cenotaph and Legion Branch 52 list
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COX w@ca.on.middlesex_county.london 1939-1945 memorial
"Honour Roll Knox United Church"
Located in Wesley-Knox United Church, Askin Street, London, Ontario
COX
Donald
120 names indexed Feb 2002 by Bob Logan of
OGS London-Middlesex Branch
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COX w@ca.on.muskoka_district.huntsville 1939-1945
COX
F.
C. private served WW2
"Honour Roll" 390 names at Huntsville Post Office indexed Aug 2001 by
OGS Sudbury Branch
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COX w@ca.on.peterborough_county.peterborough 1939-1945
COX
L.
P.
"In memory of the chivalry of our men and women who fought and died
defending humanity against agression" "Their name liveth for evermore"
Peterborough City Hall Book of Remembrance and cenotaph and Legion Branch 52 list
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COX w@ca.on.wellington_county.guelph 1939-1945 memorial
Roll of Honor In Memoriam list at Guelph Memorial Gardens (municipal arena)
COX
William
B.
E. M
indexed 1998 by
OGS Wellington County Branch
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COYNE w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury 1939-1945 memorial
COYNE
Joseph▼
L.▼
A.▼ army died WW2
COYNE
Linus
J.
A.▼ air force died WW2
Book of Remembrance at Sudbury City Hall
indexed 1997 by
John Allan of OGS Sudbury Branch
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COYNE w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury.sudbury_star 1948-10-09 published
COYNE
Joseph▲
L.▲
A.▲ army killed in Normandy
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COYSTON w@ca.on.perth_county.stratford 1939-1945
COYSTON
Lieut
A.
R.
book The Fighting Perths by Stafford Johnston published 1964 by
Perth Regiment Veterans Association
reprinted and available $15 at Stratford Archives and
OGS Perth County Branch
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