Lives Given
The Fallen From RCAF Station Patricia Bay
1939 – 1945
On 1 June 2017 the Victoria Airport Authority dedicated the memorial Lost Airmen of the Empire, by the noted artist, Illarion Gallant. It sits on Hospital Hill, the highest point on the airfield, which offers commanding views of the airport, Mount Baker to the east, and Patricia Bay with Malahat Mountain to the west. Inscribed on the individual Cooper Hawk feathers comprising the memorial are the names of all persons who perished during World War II while working at or posted to RCAF Station Patricia Bay, or who were aboard aircraft from that base.
Information about this memorial, prepared by the Victoria Airport Authority, can be found here. Additional detail prepared by BCAM can be found here and here.
The Library at the BC Aviation Museum, located on the grounds of what is today Victoria International Airport, researched and provided the names for the memorial. Since that time the library has worked actively to develop biographies of all individuals listed on this memorial. In November of 2018 these biographies were posted to the museum website with the hope that missing or incomplete information can be obtained from families, friends and comrades of these persons. It is our wish to personalize and honour the sacrifice made by these men and women in the service of their country.
If you have questions about these names, or if you have information or photographs to supplement our information, please contact us at: [email protected]
This is intended to be a living document; comment and information is welcome at any time and we will continually update our biographies to provide the most current information available.
The Fallen
Abbots AH
Abell AJH*
Adams RW
Allan JJ
Allcorn RF
Andrews GH
Aucoin WP
Baird W
Barker WF
Barrow RT
Bastick NA
Bateman JH
Beazer MA
Bell JM
Bellotti AM
Bennett PG
Biggs PF
Birch HC
Bishop CL
Blakely RA
Blenkiron JL
Boalch FE
Bourne JH
Bowler KJ
Boyd JR
Bradley FG
Briggs JH
Britland LP
Brooks ER
Brooks LW
Brown RG
Bures P
Butler JD
Carson RA
Caverly LJ
Christy RT
Cockcroft RV
Conlon SJ
Cormie T
Cornell JL
Crawford AB
Crosson VG
Daigle VW
Davidson RW
Davies WE
Davis CJ
Dawson J
Day LO
Desbiens JGH
Dion WL
Dishman WR
Dobie ASD
Doherty AJ
Donald TB
Donkersley HW
Douglas-Home GC
Fear AWV
Fearnley JF
Flaherty JG
Fox CG
France A
Fraser AJ
Fraser RB
Fretwell JA
Frost HH
Fulbrook ST
Gates FD
Gimbert GA
Gordon E
Gordon HL
Gould GH
Grundy DH
Gunn JC
Hall GG
Hall GL
Harris WW
Hatfield WM
Hayes R
Heal LE
Hemphill S
Hoblitzell HF
Hodge RA
Hodgson SS
Hope DW
Hornbrook PF
Houston AD
Hrysko W
Huard KC
Hughes RJ
Hunt AW
Hutchinson B
Isbister DW
Johnson GP
Johnson N
Johnson NM
Kimpton PA
Kingswood GT
Kitley RV
Kjos KS
Lawrence AW
Light MJ
Lowe HA
Luckock RE
Lynch AS
MacColl DD
MacDougall DC
MacGillivary DD
Machell EB
MacLachlan RB
Maddrell GW
Mahoney JA
Maiden FK
Mansfield JS
Mann M
Manttan RK
Marlow AR
Martello RJ
Maun RA
McCarty WR
McIntosh J
McLeod HD
Merrill MH
Middleton CG
Mitchell RT
Morse J
Murphy JB
Nash RL
Nixon WM
O’Brien MJP
Oliver D
Orrell J
Pallen RH
Patenaude JR
Paterson G
Peterkin JS
Pettit L
Piercy HS
Popovich NM
Porter FF
Porter RRG
Potter CE
Presse JB
Pringle TA
Proctor RC
Quigley EG
Ralph J
Ramsay GBN
Riley WD
Riser JE
Ritchie ER
Robertson DJ
Robertson T
Ruocco VS
Schwab JH
Seaker RA
Senger GC
Shaw K
Smith MC
Sowerby E
Staples AI
Stapleton DL
Stillwell SH
Sugden C
Switzer SA
Szportan WL
Talbot JM
Thomas N
Thorn HJ
Trudel JRA
Tull LH
Turnbull WM
Utting VA
Vosburgh JR
Walls G
Wardlow TS
Warner AL
Watson RFL
Weekes NO
White WT
Wood R
Wooster WS
Wortley DB
* Abell RJH is listed on the feathers but a detailed record search found he died in 1946.