The Fallen
15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA
Active Service Deaths – Lest We Forget
Gunner Jack Fraser Riddle
​5 October 1951
while serving with the 2nd Regiment
​Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
Captain Alan Ronald Townsley
29 March 1945
​while serving with the 3rd Anti-Tank Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Sergeant Alfred Stokes
10 March 1945
while serving with the Calgary Highlanders
Sergeant Murray Clarence Van Norman
​20 September 1944
while serving with the 7th Anti-Tank Regiment
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Lance Sergeant Leslie Howard Holtby
​19 September 1944
while serving with the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Sergeant Ronald Clare Underhill
​13 September 1944
while serving with the 2nd Field Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Sergeant Claude Everly Rogers 
​30 August 1944
while serving with the 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Major James Hector Sutherland
​28 August 1944
while serving with the 1st Anti-Tank Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Bombardier Robert Dixon Spring
23 August 1944
while serving with the 6th Field Regiment
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Bombardier Gordon George Sheldon
​8 August 1944
while serving with the 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Lieutenant Edward Frank Mantle 
2 August 1944
while serving with the 5th Anti-Tank Regiment
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Gunner Joseph Druery Renney
​27 July 1944
while serving with the ​15th Auxiliary Service
Major George Paxton Downie Cowan
25 May 1944
while serving with 3rd Field Regiment RCA
Pilot Officer John Morgan Cooley
22 February 1944
while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force
Pilot Officer Lionel Edmond Charles Gagnon
16 February 1943
while serving with the No 1 Officer Training Unit
​Royal Canadian Air Force
Bombardier Wallace Reece Brunt
​20 August 1941
while serving with the 15th (Vancouver) Coast Brigade
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Bombardier James Charters
19 August 1942
 while serving with the 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Gunner Joseph Camile Dessureault
​19 August 1942
 while serving with the 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Bombardier George Allen Northgraves
​19 August 1942
 while serving with the 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Gunner John Robertson Wilson
15 July 1940
while serving with the 85th Battery 15th (Vancouver) Coast Brigade
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Gunner William Robert Smith
​10 July 1940
while serving with the 15th (Vancouver) Coast Brigade
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Bombardier Norman Stanley Bajus
14 Sep 1939
while serving with the ​15th (Vancouver) Coast Brigade
​The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Captain Oliver Alexander Mowat
27 January 1919
while serving with the 68th Battery 16th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Acting Bombardier David Fraser
​13 November 1918
while serving with the ​68th Battery 16th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Gunner Frank H. Russell
13  November 1918
while serving with the 68th Battery 16th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Gunner John Francis Blanchard
18 October 1918
while serving with the 3rd Brigade
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Lieutenant Claude Melnot Wilson DFC
14 October 1918
while serving with the 29th Squadron
​Royal Flying Corps
Gunner Peter Boyd Shaw
13 October 1918
while serving with the 3rd Brigade
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Gunner William Earle Duperow
9 October 1918
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Gunner Ivey Johnston Scott
4 October 1918
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Second Lieutenant William Jermy Jephson
​26 September 1918
while serving with the 175th Brigade
Royal Field Artillery
Gunner Budd Arthur Addison
24 September 1918
while serving with the 85th Battery
​Canadian Field Artillery
Gunner David Dickinson 
​9 September 1918
while serving with the 1st Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Bombardier Edward Hayes Smith, MM
5 September 1918
while serving with the 2nd Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Major Thomas Duncan Ringwood
​10 August 1918
while serving with the 14th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Captain Richard Phillip Bawden
10 August 1918
while serving with the 31st Battery, 9th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Second Lieutenant Arthur William Aird
​23 May 1918
while serving with the 209th Squadron
​Royal Flying Corps
Lieutenant Richard Langford Smith
17 April 1918
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Major Temple William Faber Macdonald
2 April 1918
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Gunner Lawrence Caffrey
​7 March 1918
while serving with the 8th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Gunner John Kelsall
4 March 1918
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Gunner William Joseph Curran
​1 January 1918
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Lieutenant James Maxwell McIlquham MC
​6 November 1917
while serving with the 31st Battery 9th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Gunner Leonard Duncan Haslett
1 November 1917
while serving with the 6th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Gunner Walter Percy McFarlane
​24 October 1917
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege  Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Lieutenant Albert Alexander Allen
11 October 1917
while serving with the the 46th Squadron
​Royal Flying Corps
Gunner Arthur Burgess
​9 October 1917
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege  Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Gunner Gabriel Leblanc
​21 August 1917
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege  Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Gunner Gordon Alexander Ferguson
​19 July 1917
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege  Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Lieutenant James Kay 
​8 July 1917
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege  Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Gunner Roland Francis Turner
​26 June 1917
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege  Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
 Gunner Mason Walter Bolton
​11 May 1917
while serving with the ​2nd Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
 Gunner Thomas Leroy Chambers MM
​8 May 1917
while serving with the ​31st Battery, 8th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
​Gunner Oliver Lawrence Pender
21 April 1917
while serving with 5th Canadian Siege  Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery​
Gunner Christian Jamsen Sorensen
21 April 1917
while serving with 5th Canadian Siege  Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Lieutenant Laurence Henderson Gass
​8 April 1917
while serving with the 5th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Gunner Harold Artemas Macleod
​3 March 1917
while serving with the 8th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Major George Herbert Maxwell
18 February 1917
while serving with 5th Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Gunner Charles Gregg
​1 January 1917
while serving with the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column
Gunner Robert Hardy Thompson
13 November 1916
while serving with 165th (5th) Canadian Siege Battery
​Canadian Garrison Artillery
Gunner Arthur Grisdale
4 November 1916
while serving with 31st Battery, 8th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
Gunner Charles John Letch
4 November 1916
while serving with 31st Battery, 8th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery
More detailed biographical information on each of our fallen can be found in our nominal roll pages.