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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project
In memory of those who have Crossed the
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Harold
William Bee
Petty
Officer, Training
Instructor 2nd Class, RCNVR
Born: 13 Apr 1920
Died: 03 Mar 2014, Oshawa, Ontario
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Ships
served in:
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MIDLAND
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Cover: Harold W. Bee, RCNVR 1942 - photos taken on HMCS Midland Page
1: On the sub's trail Page
2: L Class Destroyer (HMS Lauderdale L95) // HMCS
Charlottetown K244 Page
3: The Louisburg K151 // "Away Sea boats Crew
// Corvettes in Halifax Page
4: Convoy to St. John's |
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5: The Storm of March 1942 // "A green one" breaking Page
6: Brickon on 'AA' Platform // Looking aft port
side // Fosc'le of Midland Sweepers alongside
// Back aft
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7: Port Side // Ammunition for the shoot //
Looking forward // Port Side
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8: Point fives // Convoy to Halifax //
Columbia in the distance
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9: Gunn & Brickon // Johnny Cann // Bill
Foster // Mr. Deyer // Cold? |
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10: Yunker Yarnton in St John's // St John's
Harbor // The mouth of the harbor
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11: In St John's, Saxon & Sabe and some of the boys
// McGuire, Saxon, Sabe
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12: Yarnton, Bee, Ring, Redhead in Nfld // MacLean, Bee
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13: Mac // Jarvis // Alongside a
"Squeezer" Mccoll, Brickon & Higgison //
Over the side - painting the ship's side K220
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14: Ted Kidd - 1944 // Ted Kidd - (webmaster's note:
It is believed that these photos of Ted Kidd are of Flying Officer
Terence William Kidd who died on 23 Apr 1943. He was a
passenger on the MB Amerika that had departed Halifax on 14 Apr 1943
bound for Liverpool, England. On 22 Apr 1943, the Amerkia was sunk
by U-306 with a loss of 42 crew and 37 members of the RCAF. 30 crew
and 16 RCAF officers survived.) |
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15: St John's Newfoundland
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16: Concert While Duty Ship // Fred Stone Plays //
Coxswain, Mr. Taylor, "Jimmie" Page
17: St John's ball game HMCS Midland vs HMCS Calgary //
Dorey (Cook) // Midland Team //
"Jimmie" // Cann Pitching
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18: Vinc, Nfld 1942 // Irish, Halifax 1942 // Vinc
Quarterdeck of Dunvegan // On Dunvegan //
Feeling damn good - Gunn in Nfld
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19: Montreal Fire 1941 |
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20: Bob Bowman, CBC commentator on Midland in Newfld //
"Newfie" (Quartermaster)
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21: Saint John, New Brunswick // High Tide
// Low Tide // Automatic gangway
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22: HMS Vanoc at sea provisioning HMCS Midland
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23: (Bill) Readhead inspecting results of ramming HMCS Gaspe
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24: Saint John Train // Funeral for Fire Chief in Saint
John // Parade of Firemen, Saint John //
Scott's old ship, used for South Pole exp //
"Red", Narley(?sp), Suffern |
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25: United States Navy Blimp 2 days out of Boston // New type
freighter Page
26: Ship's cat // Found Lifeboat - removing contents Page
27: Irish // Suffern // "Willie"
Williamson // "Red" Redhead Page
28: Yunker Yarnton and Red in messdeck // Red, Yunker,
Me (Harold Bee) in Newfoundland // Red, Meyers, Yunker
// Gay, Chartrand, Meyers, Red Page
29: Navy Bank, Navy League grounds, Halifax |
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30: Rear - H. Bradley, B. Henderson, Dallie, L. O'Brien, S.
Burton, Henecker, Smith; Front - Parks, Young, Simpson,
Rowland, Harris, Watt (2 unknown)
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31: C. MacDonald // Reg Mylrae // Roy Anger
// Bob Greene // Johnny Rowland // Jim Arnott //
Johnny Altman // Hill Harmon // Danny Seaman
// Gus Vickers // Red Burchel
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32: Stan McClarty // The Chief - March 1941
// HMCS Queen Messdeck
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33: Navy League Grounds Halifax // Reg Mybea
// Johnny Rowland // "Mike"
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34: Sid - Abbot // Ron Sallis |
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35: Gym Display 1942
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36: Gym Display 1942
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37: MacCockburn - 1942
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38: no caption - part of Gym display
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39: Lobby, Henderson, Burton, Dallis, Watt, Parks, Harris - 1942 |
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Page 40: Bee, Sallis, Gardner, Lobby, Rowland,
Baldwin, Goldfinch, Magnan, Barron, Phillips, Janes - the following
are pictures at Deep Brook in June 1943
Pages 41-44: No captions - P&RT staff with
new entries - exercises and teachin boxing |
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45: No caption - P&RT staff teaching boxing
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46: Bruce and Guy // Bruce Robinson
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47: Bourgue, (Summerfeld) Murphy, Burton // The Gang at Deep
Brook // Bourgue, Henderson & Charles //
Simpson // Sallis
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48: Frank Jones - 1943 // H.W. - 1943
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49: Bill Gardner, H.W., H. Hine - 1943 // Harry Hine - 1943 |
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50: Gard, Harry, Janes
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51: Gardner
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52: H.W.
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53: Back - R. Sallis, A. Goldfinch, F. Jones, P. Magnan, I.
Barron, R. Phillips; Front - V. Baldwin, B. Gardner, Bee,
Park, J. Rowland, L. O'Brien Page
54: No caption |
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55: P&RT School Staff - 1943
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56: New Entry Staff - 1943
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57: No caption - - webmaster's caption: P&RT staff showing
off
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58: P&RT School Staff & Qualifiers Jul 1943-44
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62: No caption - RCN School of Physical and Recreational Training at
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