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  • Gecel Faige Miriam Mosh Zylberstein
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  • LS Alan K. Adlington
    Leading Seaman Alan Kenneth Adlington joined the Navy underage. He sailed from Halifax for overseas, on January 30, 1942, his 17th birthday. He was in service on-loan to the Royal Navy. He trained in Scotland on landing craft in combined operations. He made the North Africa Landing and Sicily where …
  • Sister Gwladys Rees Aikens
    Country of Origin: Wales Ship Name: Queen Mary Date of Arrival: July 1946 Gwladys Rees Aikens was born in Swansea, South Wales. She was educated in Wales and received her nursing training in England. At the beginning of WWII, she joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Services …
  • Major Robert L. Aikens
    Born May 1914, in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. He received the Pictou Academy Gold Medal. He graduated in medicine from Dalhousie University and volunteered for active service in 1939 (or 1940) for WW II. He left Halifax from Pier 21 as a medical officer with the RCAMC in 1941. He served in North …
  • F/O Bert W. Allen
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  • Private Gordon B. Allen
    Gordon B. Allen, born in February 1925 in Port Elgin, New Brunswick, enrolled for wartime military service in March 1941 at the age of sixteen years and one month. He served for four and one-half years until November 1945. On enrolment, he was part of the 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Artillery …
  • Gunner Percy Allen
    Gunner Percy Allen …
  • B Gen Edward A.C. Amy
    B Gen Edward A.C. Amy …
  • Lt. Nursing Sister Jean P. Amy
    Lt. Nursing Sister Jean P. Amy …
  • Dispatcher Jessie Anderson
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