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Mystery Photos 

 


 

If you can identify anyone in these photos, please send me an EMAIL

 

Some photos have larger images available and you can view them by clicking on the photo.

 

Mystery Photo #1

 

One of the two sailors in this photo is named Edwards.  That's all that is known.

Mystery Photo #2

 

Tim, a cook on the Fishermen's Reserve Vessel HMCS SNOW PRINCE.  Little is known about Tim - what is know is that when he was on Snow Prince he was a bachelor and owned a home in Prince Rupert, BC. 

Mystery Photo #3

 

Resided in Shannon Park / Wallis Heights

Mystery Photo #4

 

Resided in Shannon Park / Wallis Heights. Served in HMCS RESTIGOUCHE.

Mystery Photo #5

Identified - 11 Sep 2022

Clifford Ashton

Mystery Photo #6

 

Resided in Shannon Park / Wallis Heights

Mystery Photo #7

 

Resided in Shannon Park / Wallis Heights

Mystery Photo #8

 

Resided in Shannon Park / Wallis Heights

Mystery Photo #9

Identified - 11 Sep 2022

Edward Charles Jewer

Mystery Photo #10

 

Resided in Shannon Park / Wallis Heights

Mystery Photo #11

 

Resided in Shannon Park / Wallis Heights

Mystery Photo #12

 

Resided in Shannon Park / Wallis Heights

Mystery Photo #13

Identified - 11 Sep 2022

Donald Arthur Newman

Mystery Photo #14

 

Sailors on unknown ship

Mystery Photo #15

 

Sailors on unknown ship

Mystery Photo #16

 

No information available on this wartime sailor

Mystery Photo #17

 

No information available on this couple

Mystery Photo #18

 

Unknown sailor on ship in Esquimalt

Mystery Photo #19

 

Served in HMCS RAINBOW c1910-1917

Mystery Photo # 20

 

Served in HMCS RAINBOW c1910-1917

Mystery Photo #21

 

Served in HMCS RAINBOW c1910-1917

Mystery Photo #22

 

Sailor at the wheel on an unknown ship

 

From the collection of SBA TERRELL

Mystery Photo #23

 

Sailor at the wheel on an unknown ship

 

From the collection of SBA TERRELL

Mystery Photo #24

 

Sailor with mascot on unknown ship

 

From the collection of LTO Dougall

Mystery Photo # 25

 

Unknown sailor on HMCS WOLF

 

From the collection of LTO Dougall

Mystery Photo # 26

 

Unknown sailor on HMCS WOLF

 

From the collection of LTO Dougall

Mystery Photo #27

 

Unknown RCNR SLt on HMCS NIPIGON

 

From the collection of Cdr Bernard Lake

Mystery Photo # 27

 

The only known officer in the photo is in the rear row, 2nd from the left, Lt Hubert Norbury

Mystery Photo #28

 

Unknown RCN sailor in photo believed to be taken on an airfield somewhere in England

 

Photo courtesy of the Campbell River Genealogy Society

Mystery Photo #29

 

Unknown sailor by the service bay entrance of A.B. Balderston Ltd., Cole Harbour, Vancouver Island, BC

 

From the collection of LTO Dougall

Mystery Photo #30

Unknown Stoker in the wheelhouse of an unknown ship

 

From the collection of LTO Dougall

Mystery Photo #31

Rifleman Scott (right) was killed 28 Aug 1944.  The sailor on the left is unknown

Mystery Photo #31

"The Little Skipper"

Photo album page 5

 

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

Mystery Photo #32

"Phil"

 

Photo album page 9

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

Mystery Photo #33

"Dopey, Jup, Beaner"

"The Three Musketeers"

 

Photo album page 12

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

Mystery Photo #34

"Murray"

 

Photo album page 15

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

 

Mystery Photo #35

"Stevens"

 

Photo album page 15

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

Mystery Photo #36

In this photo, the mystery sailor is on the left.  The sailor on the right is his friend George Dunlop

 

Photo album page 24

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

Mystery Photo #37

Lloyd McRory and Pal.  It is not known which sailor is Lloyd McRory

 

Photo album page 26

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

Mystery Photo #38

Two unknown Canadian sailors with Bea Ferris

 

Photo album page 27

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

Mystery Photo #39

Three unknown Canadian sailors

 

Photo album page 27

From the collection of PO Robert Webster

 

 

 


 

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