Little Bay Islands has been very patriotic, which is well proved by the number of men who
joined the fighting forces, both in this war and the last. Also by the quantity of war work and the
amount of money raised for war purposes by the people at home.

1914-19:
     There were seven men in the Navy, fourteen in the Army and one in the Forestry during
the last war.
     In the Navy there were: A.J. Wiseman, who was the first to go overseas, as he was in the
Royal Naval Reserve before the war; Charlie P. Rendell, Joseph Campbell, Ernest Paddock,
Joseph Roberts, Sidney Wiseman and Samuel Jones.
     In the Army there were: Norman Strong, Baxter Mursell, Chesley Mursell, William Locke,
Gordon White, Adolphe Wiseman, Lemuel Locke, James Weir, Victor Hull, James Locke, Victor
Weir, Bert Parsons, Bernard Parsons, Lewis George Oxford and Gordon Gates, who was
transferred from the Forestry.
     Besides the above list three others, who are now residents, served overseas, but enlisted
from some other place: H.M. Piercey and Ernest Penney in the Army, and H.S. Hollier in the
Navy.
     The following is the casualty list: Lieutenant Norman Strong, killed in Action; Adolphe
Wiseman and Gordon White, both killed in Action; Victor Hull died at St. Johns. Thus we had a
casualty list of four out of twenty-two enlisted men.
     There was a W.P.A. during the last war, which raised money in different ways, which was
forwarded to headquarters. It also had a committee to pick and clean moss for war purposes. Also
there was formed by Mrs. W.A. Strong, a Girl's Guild, which did the splendid work of raising
money to support an Army Cot in an English hospital from 1916 to 1919.

1939:
     We have eighteen men overseas during this war. Thirteen in the Navy, two in the Artillery,
two in the Merchant Navy, and one in the Forestry. One month after war broke out two of our
boys, Howard Strong and Colin Forward enlisted, and it was not long before others followed. In
the Navy are: Howard Strong, Colin Forward, Colin Strong, Maxwell Strong (Lieut.), Lloyd
Wiseman, Maxwell Wiseman, Sidney Penney, Cyril Penney, Llewelyn Robinson, Frank Grimes,
John Grimes, Leonard Grimes and Lemuel Oxford. In the Artillery are: Hedley Wiseman and
Arthur Locke. In the Merchant Navy are: Charles Rendell, who was in the Navy during the last
war, and Elmo Anstey, who was on a ship when the war broke out as a Radio operator and has
continued ever since. In the Forestry there is Eric Grimes.
     We have had three casualties, all in the Navy. Frank Grimes who was in the Navy before
the war broke out, Cyril Penney, and Lloyd Wiseman, whose father, Alfred James Wiseman, was
the first to go overseas from here during the last war.
     There are two families whom we must specially mention: Mrs. Peter Grimes, who has five
sons overseas, and Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Strong, who has three sons in the Navy, one of whom,
Maxwell, is a Lieutenant.
     In October 1939 a branch of the W.P.A. was formed. This branch has done great work
during the past two years. It has collected $500.00, $400.00 of which has been sent to
headquarters and to the Red Cross.
     Besides it has sent a parcel to each boy overseas from here every year since the war broke
out. The ladies have knit 130 pairs of socks, 80 pairs of mitts, 50 sweaters, 25 helmets, and 15
scarves. We have also an N.P.A. which has sent several dollars to headquarters, besides sending
each boy a carton of cigarettes at Christmastime. Other organizations which have played small
parts in our war effort are the Y.P.U., which has also donated gifts to our boys, and the Junior
Red Cross, which has sent money and parcels to its headquarters.
     I think that the above bears out the statement that I made at first, that Little Bay Islands
has played an active part in the last war and is doing so in this war.