I recently digitalized a number of my grandfather's photos from WWII.  He (George Schmidt) was on the HMCS Prince Robert in the Pacific.   My problem is, other than the photos of my grandfather, I don't know who any of the other men or even where some of the landscape pictures are from.  Like most he didn't talk about it and when he died he took a lot of those details with him. 

My hope is that someone familiar with the voyages of the Prince Robert can help identify some of the people and locales in these photos and perhaps share more details of my Grandfather's service during WWII.

Robyn Barker
Kingston, Ontario
robynbarker@hotmail.com

George Edgar Schmidt was born in Saskatchewan, but the family moved to Milverton, Ontario when he was young.   He had two brothers and three sisters. 

He enlisted in the war on Aug. 23 1943 after he turned 18, much to the horror of his mother.  She was very much against her son fighting in the war.

He trained in Halifax and Sydney N.S. then  Comox B.C.  He was chosen to witness the signing of the official surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri.   He was catcher for the ship's softball team. 

He apparently had many souvenirs from Hawaii, Hong Kong and Australia... but his mother threw them all out!  We have none of these items. 

After the war he worked for the Canada Post.  He married in 1948 and had three children, two girls and a boy.   In the late 1990s he was in a terrible car accident (he was a passenger in an antique car).  This caused many health complications for the remainder of his life.  He passed away in 2007.