Lisgar Collegiate's Soldiers

In the fall of 2024 Lisgar Collegiate has joined the Walking Them Home project and have studied the lives of their former alumni as well.

According to our records, 98 of Lisgar Collegiate's former students lost their lives in the Second World War. For this phase of the project, we chose 21 to research who live within walking distance from Lisgar Collegiate. You can learn more about each soldier by clicking on the interactive map, or by clicking on their individual name.

Bradshaw, Richard A. 155 Nepean St (Centretown)

Caulkin, Thomas H. 150 Argyle St (Centretown)

Challis, Albert C 9 Lisgar St (City Hall field)

Clark, Wendell J - 151 Glenora Ave (Old Ottawa East)

Curphey, Lewin H - 98 James St (Centretown)

Curphey, Robert M - 98 James St (Centretown)

Dubroy, Thomas E - 109 Cartier St

Eardley-Wilmot, John Vere - 55 Somerset W (Centretown)

Heeney, Cecil G - 7 Hawthorne Ave (Old Ottawa East)

Heeney, Robert T - 7 Hawthorne Ave (Old Ottawa East)

McAllister, Harvard D.F. - 134 McLeod St

Marriott, John R - 2 Hartington Place (Golden Triangle)

Melville, Robert L - 200 Cartier St (Golden Triangle)

Paul, Douglas E - 41 Arlington (Centretown)

Rouleau, David F. G - 114 The Driveway (Golden Triangle)

Schwerdfager, James E - 344 Gilmour St (Centretown)

Silver, Samuel L - 229 Catherine St (Centretown)

Spittal, Edward G.A - 275 McLeod St Apt #2 (Centretown)

Stroughler, Edward M - 56 Frank St (Golden Triangle)

Warren, George R.M. - 19 MacLaren St (Golden Triangle)

The biographies appearing on this website have been written by students, roughly the same age as the soldiers they are studying, using primary source evidence from Library and Archives Canada, in addition to primary source documents from The Virtual War Memorial on veterans.ca. We welcome any corrections or additions you may have to these biographies.

'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.

Glebe Collegiate Institute
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada

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