14 Dec 2004
Husband: Arthur Bernard RUSS nickname: Bun died at age: 79
Born: 25 Mar 1912 at Gerrards Cross Bucks 1
Died: 1992 2
Resided: 1924 - 1926 at 146 Kenilworth Court, Lower Richmond Road, Putney 3
Resided: 1926 -1927 at 10 Priory Crescent, Lewes 4
Emigrated: Nov 1929 to Australia 5,6
Emigrated: 1938 to Seattle - via England 7,8
Event: Mar 1946 attended Rita Russ's wedding in London 9
Resided: 1946 in Victoria Vancouver Island British Columbia
Event: 1989 'Lady Day Prodigal'
Cause of death: Cancer
Education: Sep 1921- 1924 Shebbear College Devon 10
Education: 1924 St Marylebone Grammar School 11
Education: 1926 - 1927 Lewes Grammar School 12
Occupation: 1930 Farm labourer 13
Occupation: 1933 -1938 various in North Queensland 14
Military: 1940 Royal Canadian Artillery Vancouver 15
Military: 1941 Officer training 16
Military: 1944 Transferred to RC Army Medical Corps in England 17
Military: Feb 1945 Kleve Germany 18,19
Military: 1946 returned to Canada 20
Military: Service medals awarded 21
Occupation: 1950 - 1989 Barrister in Vancouver [ret'd by 1989] 22,23
Father: Charles RUSS
Mother: Jessie Naylor GODDARD
Other Spouse 2
Wife: Doris Violet HERBERT
Married: 9 Mar 1940 in Seattle Washington his age: 27
Died: 1990 in Victoria Vancouver Island British Columbia
Father:
Mother:
M Child 1: Charles Arthur RUSS age: 61
Born: 30 Mar 1943 in Vancouver
Resided: 2001 in British Columbia
Occupation: 34 years Secondary and elementary school music teacher
Description: many and varied interests 24
F Child 2: Elizabeth RUSS age: 55
Born: 1949 in Victoria BC
Resided: 2001 in Toronto Ontario
Event: 1962 met Patrick O'Brian 25
Event: Summer 1989 met Patrick O'Brian twice 26
Occupation: for 30 years paralegal 27
Occupation: 2001 Artist and gallery owner/operator 28
Spouse: Thomas WOOD
Spouse: Bill BUXTON
Sources:
(1) ABR, 6.
(2) DK, 'In the spring of 1991, Barney contacted Patrick again....did not have
long to live', 332.
(3) NT, 58.
(4) NT, 74.
(5) DK, 'He secured a Dreadnought passage at the Australian embassy and landed in
Sydney in November 1929', 42.
(6) ABR, 'I contacted the Australian Embassy. Yes, the Dreadnought Scheme was
still open. And yes, I could secure a passage. I signed', 26.
(7) ABR, 73-75.
(8) NT, That summer, Patrick's brother Bun arrived in England, having spent nine
years in Australia. He had worked his passage as a steward on board the
Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain. During the long voyage he became
engaged to a girl called Violet Herbert, who has been working as a ship
stewardess for several years.
He had arrived with the patriotic intention of enlisting in the Army, but
unfortunately failed the medical examination on account of an injury to his arm
inflicted while castrating piglets in the outback. Greatly disappointed, he
accepted an invitation from his uncle Cecil (his mother Jessie's brother) and
Aunt Gwen to come and stay at their home in Seattle. He crossed the Atlantic,
arriving at Seattle in time for Christmas, where he and his fiancee received a
most hospitable welcome. 195.
(9) Findell, Photo of wedding, In March 1946 ABR attended Rita Russ's wedding
in London to Roy Burt as his best man; as a G.I. Roy had come over from being
stationed in Germany and a special licence had to be granted.
(10) ABR, 'Michael and I to Shebbear to complete our educations in a manner
befitting the family name........Shebbear College was started by the Bible
Christians as a school for the sons of ministers to prepare them for entry into
that church...........It had been attended by my father and all six of his
brothers', 18.
(11) ABR, 'Connie, Nora and I were also withdrawn from college at this time
[1924], the fees for private education proving more than the family finances
could support. Both twins entered nursing school, and young Pat and I went to
St Marylebone Grammar School', 23.
(12) ABR, 'Father closed his practice in London, and we moved to Lewes in Sussex -
an old Saxon town on the banks of the River Ouse where Virginia Woolf was later
to commit suicide. The new house was next door to the church housing the
remains of a niece of William the Conqueror - discovered when the churchyard was
moved to make way for the new railway line. We transferred to the local Grammar
School, founded by Henry VIII in 1509, and next door to the castle, It is
hardly surprising that history became one of my favorite subjects! The school
was small, but the teaching standards very high. In fact, the highest pass in
University Entrance exams in all of England was obtained by one of our fellow
students .... At the end of my first year, I graduated with my Oxford Junior
First Class Certificate with Honours in History and English, my passport to
university.', 24.
(13) DK, 'Barney, who turned eighteen the same month [Mar 1930] was about to
become a farm labourer in Goolgowi, Australia', 44.
(14) ABR, 'The five years I spent in North Queensland were a complete contrast to
those earlier years in the western Riverina of New South Wales and the Northern
Rivers area', ABR tried his hand at many agricultural activities - sheep, corn,
tobacco, dairy, swagman, market gardening, cane harvesting, 56.
(15) ABR, 'So off with the clothes, on with the vaccinations, documentation, Oath
of Allegiance and all the usual preliminary routine. At the end of it all, I
discovered that I was a Gunner in the Royal Canadian Artillery, 15th Coast
Defence Regiment, whose headquarters in Vancouver maintained forts at Point
Grey, Stanley Park, Point Atkinson - and away up north at York Island', 83.
(16) ABR, Officer training, commissioning and then Training Officer and Adjutant, 88.
(17) ABR, 98.
(18) DK, 'In February 1945.....Barney Russ, now a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian
Medical Corps, found himself in a slit trench near Kleve, Germany', 102.
(19) ABR, 'From Aldershot, we crossed the Channel arriving in Napoleon's old
Cavalry barracks in Ghent (Belgium) and from thence to our various units. I
found myself attached to a field dressing station near Cleve, spending my very
first night there under real enemy fire in a slit trench.....We soon crossed the
Rhine to the east bank, and found ourselves fighting our way through the totally
shattered and ruined town of Emmerich.....Heading on through Holland bringing
words of liberation, candy bars and cigarettes to excited villages, we soon
arrived in Germany itself, where we were detailed to take over the German-run
hospitals, formally declaring all inmates as prisoners-of-war and assuming the
duties of the German Medical Corps. To give them credit, these men had stayed
at their posts in the face of the advancing Allied Armies to care for their own
sick and wounded as best they could, knowing full well that they would be
captured, but we were appalled by the pathetic conditions under which they had
been working......I was indeed a Captain.', 100-104.
(20) ABR, 'Yet another year elapsed, and I must have been one of the last
Canadians to be shipped home via Liverpool. The war was really over for us all',
104.
(21) ABR, 'Victory Medal; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Bar; Defence of
Britain; France and Germany Star', ABR was also awarded a medal by the Diocese
of Victoria: 'for service to the Church and Community', 113.
(22) DK, '[1989] Barney, now living very comfortably as a retired barrister, was
writing an autobiography'.
(23) ABR, Qualified 1950 - most of his work as a solicitor rather than a
barrister. Offices of Jackson & Co Bastion Square, Victoria. 109-118.
(24) Ind, Charles was a secondary and elementary school music teacher( choir,
band, orchestra, guitar, composition) for the Vancouver School Board for 34
years. He was the music coordinator and arranger for the Exposition in Yokohama
in 1989, representing Vancouver (Yokohama 's sister city). He has held several
intermediate and large organist and choir director roles in several Anglican and
United Churches over the years. He is a keen gardener and orchid collector and
Model Train enthusiast (Gauge HO), as well as a dog (5!) and cat (3) owner, with
a very large garden and Koi pond with some nice specimen Koi.
(25) DK, 'Elizabeth, his [Barney] daughter, who had fond memories of her Uncle Pat
from their first meeting fourteen years before in Paris, was hoping to see him in
her upcoming visit to France', Liz has the date as 1962, 304.
(26) Ind, "I also met him twice in the summer of 1989 in Collioure and I believe I
am the last blood relative to see him alive".
(27) Ind, "Dad was proud of that - looking in it as following in his legal
footsteps".
(28) Ind, Elizabeth Russ is a graduate in fine arts of the Ontario College of Art
and Design, and is the founder, owner and curator of Gallery 888. She is an
active artist who works mainly in watercolour and acrylic. She established
Gallery 888 in 1999 to fill a perceived need for additional venues for artists
of merit who were at the early stages of their career, who did not have gallery
representation.
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