Many Ontario cenotaphs used initials instead of given names. An excellent site with full names and details is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
contact John Allan if you are willing to transcribe a cenotaph or other war memorial for OGSPI
WHALE
WHALEN
WHALLEY
WHEATLEY
WHEELER
WHITEDUCK
WHITEHEAD
WHITESIDE
WHITFIELD
WHITHAM
WHITMARSH
WHITMORE
WHITNEY
WHITE/WHYTE
WHITTEMORE
WHYMARK
WHALE w@ca.on.perth_county.stratford 1939-1945 memorial
"Honor Roll - to the glory of God and in honor of the men of this congregation
who made the supreme sacrifice in World War 2 for truth and freedom"
BAILLIE
Thomas
MILLMAN
Thomas
Ralph
SANDERSON
HALL
Grant
WHALE
Raymond
"Erected by the members and adherents of Knox Presbyterian Church"
Plaque at entrance of Knox Presbyterian Church Stratford
transcribed 2001 by
OGS Perth County Branch
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WHALEN w@ca.on.nipissing_district.north_bay 1939-1945
rebuilt memorial wall - names on right side of main arch
WHALEN
Theodore
indexed 2012 by John and Lynda Allan of OGS
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WHALLEY w@ca.on.nipissing_district.calvin_township 1939-1945
WHALLEY
E.
H.
WHALLEY
E.
C.
WHALLEY
G.
Roll of Honour in Calvin Township Office:
"We record with pride and gratitude the names of members of Calvin Township who are serving their King and Country”
indexed 2004 by Garth Wunsch of Lively Ont
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WHEATLEY w@ca.on.perth_county.stratford 1939-1945
WHEATLEY
R.
H.
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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WHEELER w@ca.on.peterborough_county.peterborough.saint_james_united 1939-1945 volunteer list
"For King and Country - Members of St James United Church
who have volunteered for active service with Canada's fighting forces"
WHEELER
W.
R.
116 names on painting by
Casson A. J.
transcribed 2000 by
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHITEDUCK w@ca.on.nipissing_district.north_bay 1939-1945
rebuilt memorial wall - names on right side of main arch
WHITEDUCK
Lawrence
K.
indexed 2012 by John and Lynda Allan of OGS
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WHITEHEAD w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury 1939-1945 memorial
WHITEHEAD
John
Alfred air force died WW2
Book of Remembrance at Sudbury City Hall
indexed 1997 by
John Allan of OGS Sudbury Branch
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WHITEHEAD w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury.sudbury_star 1948-10-09 published
WHITEHEAD John Royal Canadian Air Force
missing over Germany presumed dead
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WHITESIDE w@ca.on.durham_county.manvers_township.bethany 1939-1945 cenotaph
"In memory of the men from Manvers Township who died defending freedom in two World Wars"
WHITESIDE
Roy
indexed 2012 by
John Allan of OGS
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WHITESIDE w@ca.on.kenora.kenora 1939-1945 memorial
WHITESIDE
E.
E. Kenora Legion cairn
WHITESIDE
E.
E.
R.▼ Kenora town cenotaph
WHITESIDE
E. Kenora Saint_Alban's Cathedral (Anglican)
indexed 1998 for OGSPI by Robert H. Gray of Kenora
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WHITESIDE w@ca.on.muskoka_district.huntsville 1939-1945
WHITESIDE
M.
K. law served WW2
"Honour Roll" 390 names at Huntsville Post Office indexed Aug 2001 by
OGS Sudbury Branch
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WHITESIDE w@ca.on.ontario_county.scugog_township.port_perry 1939-1945 cenotaph
WHITESIDE
L.
A.
C.
R.▲
indexed 2012 by
John Allan of OGS
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WHITFIELD w@ca.on.victoria_county.fenelon.fenelon_falls 1939-1945 memorial
"Lest we forget. Erected in memory of those who fell and
in Honour of those who served"
WHITFIELD
Bert served WW2
WHITFIELD
Clark served WW2
WHITFIELD
George served WW2
WHITFIELD
William served WW2
"Pride in our past - Faith in our Future"
"Erected by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 238 Fenelon Falls"
"In co-operation with the citizens of Fenelon Falls, Fenelon and Verulam Townships"
184 names indexed May 2002 by John and Lynda Allan of
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHITHAM w@ca.on.nipissing_district.north_bay 1939-1945
Honour Roll - North Bay Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
In Proud remembrance of the students who gave their lives in the Second World War
WHITHAM
L.▼
L.▼
erected by the staff and students
indexed 2012 by John and Lynda Allan of OGS
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WHITHAM w@ca.on.nipissing_district.north_bay 1939-1945
rebuilt memorial wall - names on right side of main arch
WHITHAM
Lyle
L.▲
indexed 2012 by John and Lynda Allan of OGS
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WHITMARSH w@ca.on.sudbury_district.chelmsford 1939-1945 memorial
WHITMARSH
Elmer
wall plaque at Royal Canadian Legion Chelmsford Branch 553
indexed 1998 by
OGS Sudbury Branch
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WHITMORE w@ca.on.grey_county.glenelg.durham 1939-1945
source: Cenotaph at Veteran's Memorial Park - Mill Street
WHITMORE
G.
CARSON
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WHITNEY w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury 1939-1945 volunteer_list
WHITNEY
J. army
"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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WHITNEY w@ca.on.victoria_county.fenelon.fenelon_falls 1939-1945 memorial
"Lest we forget. Erected in memory of those who fell and
in Honour of those who served"
WHITNEY
E. served WW2
"Pride in our past - Faith in our Future"
"Erected by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 238 Fenelon Falls"
"In co-operation with the citizens of Fenelon Falls, Fenelon and Verulam Townships"
184 names indexed May 2002 by John and Lynda Allan of
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.algoma_district.bruce_mines 1939-1945 memorial
Front: "Lest We Forget - Their name and fame shall be an echo and a light
to all eternity"
West Side:
ALEXANDER B. ,
ANSLEY W. ,
BEILHARTZ R. ,
BLACK J. ,
CUTHBERTSON H. ,
PRATT J. ,
SHAULE L. ,
SMITH C. ,
STURGEON J. aka TURGEON ,
TAILOR/TAYLOR B. ,
TEES A. ,
WILSON S. ,
WHITE/WHYTE A.
"Who gave their lives in World War 2 1939-1945"
"Valliant in Life" "Triumphant in Death"
indexed by
OGS Sault Sainte Marie Branch
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.algoma_district.sault_sainte_marie 1939-1945 memorial
WHITE/WHYTE
T.▼
J.▼
A.▼ army
WHITE/WHYTE
W.▼
A.▼ army
names and cenotaph photos by Peter and Lynne Miller published
Sault This Week 2000-11-11
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.carleton_county.goulbourn.stittsville 1939-1945
Stittsville and Area Honor Roll - World War 1
WHITE/WHYTE
Lorne
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.dufferin.east_luther.grand_valley 1914-1918 and/or 1939-1945 memorial
cenotaph at north west corner of Main Street and Amaranth Street
Veterans Passed on Since the Wars (to November, 1998)
WHITE/WHYTE
William▼
Dufferin County indexing by Randy McClelland 1998 randymac@beeline.ca
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.kenora.kenora 1939-1945 memorial
WHITE/WHYTE
F. Kenora Lakewood School
WHITE/WHYTE
F.
T.▲ Kenora Legion cairn
WHITE/WHYTE
F.
T.▲ Kenora town cenotaph
indexed 1998 for OGSPI by Robert H. Gray of Kenora
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.lanark_county.perth 1939-1945 memorial
(Tablet in front of Memorial Hospital, Drummond Street)
"In perpetual memory of these men from Perth and surrounding district who
gave their lives in defence of liberty and honour 1939-1945"
WHITE/WHYTE
R.▼
J.▲▼
WHITE/WHYTE
G.▼
A.▲▼
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.nipissing_district.north_bay 1939-1945
Honour Roll - North Bay Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
In Proud remembrance of the students who gave their lives in the Second World War
WHITE/WHYTE
C.▼
M.▼
erected by the staff and students
indexed 2012 by John and Lynda Allan of OGS
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.nipissing_district.north_bay 1939-1945
rebuilt memorial wall - names on right side of main arch
WHITE/WHYTE
C.▲▼
M.▲
WHITE/WHYTE
H.▼
W.▲▼
WHITE/WHYTE
Murray
indexed 2012 by John and Lynda Allan of OGS
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.nipissing_district.north_bay 1939-1945
rebuilt memorial wall - names on right side of main arch
WHITE/WHYTE
Sidney
James▼
C.▲▼
indexed 2012 by John and Lynda Allan of OGS
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.northumberland_county.hamilton.coburg.victoria_park 1939-1945 memorial
WHITE/WHYTE
Lloyd
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.perth_county.stratford 1939-1945
WHITE/WHYTE
H.▲
A.▲
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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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.peterborough_county.lakefield 1939-1945 memorial
"to the Glory of God and in memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice"
WHITE/WHYTE
D.▼
village cenotaph indexed 1999 by
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.peterborough_county.peterborough 1939-1945
WHITE/WHYTE
Donald
WHITE/WHYTE
Dominic
WHITE/WHYTE
E.
G.▲
WHITE/WHYTE
J.▲▼
D.▲▼
D.▲▼
"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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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.peterborough_county.peterborough.all_saints_anglican 1939-1945 memorial
"For King and Country" "Members of All Saints Church who have volunteered for active service with Canada's fighting forces"
WHITE/WHYTE
R.▲ navy
150 names on painting by
Alfred Joseph Casson
indexed 2000 by volunteers at
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.peterborough_county.peterborough.immaculate_conception_rc 1939-1945 memorial
"For King and Country" "Members of Immaculate Conception Church who have
volunteered for active service with Canada's fighting forces"
WHITE/WHYTE
James▲
Navy 1942
156 names on painting by
Alfred Joseph Casson
transcribed 2002 by
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.simcoe_county.medonite.coldwater 1939-1945
WHITE/WHYTE
B.
"The Last Post" list on wall of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 270 Coldwater
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.sudbury_district.sudbury 1939-1945 volunteer_list
WHITE/WHYTE
C.▲
D.▲
W.▲▼ air force
WHITE/WHYTE
Campbell air force
WHITE/WHYTE
William▲▼
J.▲ army
"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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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.victoria_county.fenelon.fenelon_falls 1939-1945 memorial
"Lest we forget. Erected in memory of those who fell and
in Honour of those who served"
WHITE/WHYTE
Amy served WW2
WHITE/WHYTE
Argyle served WW2
"Pride in our past - Faith in our Future"
"Erected by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 238 Fenelon Falls"
"In co-operation with the citizens of Fenelon Falls, Fenelon and Verulam Townships"
184 names indexed May 2002 by John and Lynda Allan of
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.victoria_county.lindsay 1939-1945 memorial
cenotaph on lawn of Lindsay Public Library
WHITE/WHYTE
William▲▼
W.▲
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.victoria_county.mariposa_township.oakwood 1939-1945 cenotaph
"In honoured memory of the men of Mariposa who gave their lives in the Second Great War"
WHITE/WHYTE
William▲
indexed 2003 by John and Lynda Allan of
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHITE/WHYTE w@ca.on.wellington_county.guelph 1939-1945 memorial
Roll of Honor In Memoriam list at Guelph Memorial Gardens (municipal arena)
WHITE/WHYTE
Bill
indexed 1998 by
OGS Wellington County Branch
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WHITE/WHYTE 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 grand_son'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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WHITTEMORE w@ca.on.carleton_county.goulbourn.stittsville 1939-1945
Stittsville and Area Honor Roll - World War 1
WHITTEMORE
Ed
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WHITTEMORE w@ca.on.perth_county.stratford.saint_andrews_presbyterian 1939-1945 volunteer list
"For King and Country - Members of St Andrew's Church
who have volunteered for active service with Canada's fighting forces"
WHITTEMORE
Eric
Painting by
Alfred Joseph Casson with 170 names
transcribed 2001 by
OGS Perth County Branch
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WHYMARK w@ca.on.peterborough_county.peterborough 1939-1945
WHYMARK
M.
E.
"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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WHYMARK w@ca.on.victoria_county.mariposa_township.oakwood 1939-1945 cenotaph
"In honoured memory of the men of Mariposa who gave their lives in the Second Great War"
WHYMARK
Milton▼
indexed 2003 by John and Lynda Allan of
OGS Kawartha Branch
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WHYMARK w@ca.on.victoria_county.mariposa_township.oakwood.oakwood_united_church 1939-1945
WHYMARK
Milton▲ died WW2
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