Notes of Interest by Ron McNulty

The above picture show the HMCS Haida a WWII tribal class destroyer that served during WWII and after for another period during NATO problems. There also are two aircraft carriers HMCS Magnificent favourably known as the Maggie and HMCS Bonaventure aka Bonnie. These 2 and the light cruiser HMCS Quebec served in watch during the cold war era and NATO tasks.

Ron McNulty and Peter Kanis both served on the aircraft carriers and the cruiser. They both were in Ireland for commissioning of the Bonaventure. They are members of Unit 5 Cambridge NATO Veteran's Organization.

There were many other ships as well after WWII that remained for a while. However the HMCS Haida is on permanent display in Hamilton Ontario and open to visitors.

The new ships of todays navy are frigates and coastal vessels. There are 12 new frigates that have been built, I believe they are much larger than the old destroyers or destroyer escorts. A few of them are HMCS Fredericton, HMCS Winnipeg, Ville de Quebec, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver etc. Also fairly new are the coastal ships. I think there are six of these - two are named HMCS Moncton and HMCS Nanaimo. The above frigates and coastal patrol ships serve under United Nations or NATO as requested. Included is a picture of Admiral Landymore who was chief of staff and from Brantford. Admiral Nelles another Brantford admiral and chief of staff as well.

Both Brantford Sea Cadets and Navy League Cadets carry these Admirals names. The Sea Cadets [Nelles] the Navy League Cadets [Landymore] Infomation on these two admirals is included in the official writing below

Submitted by
Ron McNulty

Canadian Post War Military & Dependants Graves in Europe

Yes, we the GENERAL NAVEREAU HIGH SCHOOL alma mater of Metz, France have recently discussed this issue with
other former dependants, Canadian and American....and some have recently travelled to those graves to honour our
former classmates/dependants and servicemen, including some who were later killed flying 104s......

One French cemetery dis-interred some graves and were "transplanting" them into nearby fields outside the cemeteries
when along came a former Canadian Dependant and his family and took photos of that.....and had them printed in a local
newspaper..........two days after those photos and article was printed, mysteriously, the bodies were REPLACED back into
their original graves, reburied and had their fresh graves COVERED in garlands of flowers......photos were taken and printed
in the same paper and a copy of that sent to the Canadian Dependant AND the Canadian Military Attache at the Canadian
Embassy in Paris....who sent the article back to Foreign Affairs in Ottawa..........where they turned up in the IN basket of
that mysterious Canadian who had taken the first set of photos.....turns out he is a member of our GENERAL NAVEREAU HIGH
SCHOOL alma mater, and whose father was the AIR OFFICER COMMANDING of all of #1 Air Division in Europe.....

I saw all the newspaper articles on this subject and the got the PARIS paper which covered the issue.......it seems that the
Minister of the Interior (also commands Frances federal police/Gendarmerie Nationale) got the county to cancel its "grave'
-recycling program and put the money for it into a mine clearing program which will allow WWI and WWII mines to
be cleared from several areas to all the allocation of a whole NEW Cemetery.....

DHH and the Chaplains General office assisted in the DND index of Military and Dependants Graves in Europe and now it is
on a searchable database....the URL I gave you should be put on our website under the title of Canadian Military and Dependants
Graves in Europe so our website visitors can LINK directly to that searchable database.......also note that there are several NATO dependant "associations"
each with their own website.....all live linked to the GENERAL NAVEREAU HIGH SCHOOL site.........

We need to do what we can to live up to our charter to ensure that we do not forget our NATO vets and their NOK.



by Scott Fuller