Winston Hart Morehouse

He was single. His religion was United Church of Canada. He was 5 feet and 19 inches in height and 192 pounds in weight with brown hair and brown eyes. He had two scars. One was below the left knee, the other one was on the back of his head. He was in good health. His medical examination was good. He had an excellent eyesight 20/20 in both eyes.

       He first enlisted in 1939 in the R.C.A.F. as a flying officer for 8 months. He also served in the 14th Army Tank Bn. for 6 weeks. He resigned commission in February, 1941. He enlisted on May 5th, 1941 in Calgary, Alberta. He served in the 1st. Fd. Brig. R.C.A for 3 years. His service unit was the 15th Field Regiment R.C.A.(C.A.). On May 22, 1941, Morehouse was classified as gunner. Then he transferred from Calgary to Delbert. He qualified for gun layer on July 27 and first aid course on September 9. However, he was penalized AWOL for a few hours on September 17. He was also penalized as he caused a disturbance in a public location on September 18. In November, he was transferred to Nova Scotia and again to Britain. On April 16, 1943, he received a year detention for days AWOL, but he was freed on July 22. He was then transferred to Germany on July 26. 

       He died at the age of 38 in Germany on March 5, 1945. He was killed in action. The death occurred on strength of  Force H.Q. He died near the Rhine by a direct hit from a German shell on his gun battery.Although he remains buried in Germany 4 CAD 987/474 R.1 Gr.14., his name was in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetary.

'If we do preserve it, we honour them, and when we in our turn pass on, we will know that behind us lives a generation of free men and of free women to be the keepers of this great heritage of ours - Canada.'

- Ian A. McPhee, former student at GCI, 1937.