Deaths in the 1940s

Michel Chamberland

1865–1943 (age 78)

Church of Our Lady of Help, Montebello

French-Canadian writer and literary contributor.

James A. Smart

1858–1942 (age 84)

Oakland Cemetery

Philippe Roy

1868–1948 (age 80)

St. Stephen's Catholic Cemetery

Physician and healthcare practitioner.

Pierre Édouard Blondin

1874–1943 (age 69)

Saint-François-du-Lac Cemetery

Arthur Sauvé

1874–1944 (age 70)

Saint-Benoit Cemetery

Arthur Sauvé was a Canadian politician who dedicated his career to public service.

Ernest Lapointe

1876–1941 (age 65)

Saint Patrice Cemetery

Harry Mummery

1889–1945 (age 56)

Brandon Municipal Cemetery

Harry Mummery was an accomplished ice hockey player of the early twentieth century.

Ernest Howard Armstrong

1864–1946 (age 82)

Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery

Henry Edward Gilbert Clayton

1867–1948 (age 81)

Saint Luke's Anglican Cemetery

Henry Edward Gilbert Clayton was a respected member of his community.

Joseph-Alphonse Ferron

1890–1947 (age 57)

Saint-Odilon Cemetery

Frank S. Leffingwell

1868–1945 (age 77)

Warner Memorial Cemetery

Frank S. Leffingwell was a politician devoted to public service and community representation.

Alphonse Bernier

1861–1944 (age 83)

Mont-Marie de Lauzon Cemetery

George Milward Boyd

1851–1940 (age 89)

Greenwood Cemetery

George Milward Boyd was a prominent Canadian politician and public servant.

William Merrifield

1890–1943 (age 53)

West Korah Cemetery

Nerissa Gass

1859–1948 (age 89)

Preeper Hill Cemetery

Nerissa Gass was a respected community member who lived a long and dignified life.

Ivan Mitchell

1893–1942 (age 49)

St. John's Cathedral Cemetery

Jim Cockman

1873–1947 (age 74)

Woodlawn Memorial Park

Jim Cockman was a skilled baseball player of the early twentieth century.

John Inglis McLaren

1865–1948 (age 83)

Woodland Cemetery

William Kellman Chandler II

1883–1948 (age 65)

St. John's Cathedral Cemetery

William Kellman Chandler II was a respected lawyer and legal professional.

Jonathan MacKinnon

1869–1944 (age 75)

Stewartdale Cemetery

John William Sobey

1869–1949 (age 80)

Brookside Cemetery

John William Sobey was a dedicated farmer committed to agricultural tradition and family.

Abdelhamid Ben Badis

1889–1940 (age 51)

Constantine

Algerian teacher and Islamic scholar who championed education and cultural preservation in Constantine.

Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle

1922–1942 (age 20)

St. Eugene Cemetery

Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle was a young Frenchman who died at age 20 in Algiers in 1942 during World War II.

Rachid Ksentini

1887–1944 (age 57)

El Kettar Cemetery

Algerian actor who contributed to the development of performing arts in early twentieth-century Algeria.

Arthur Louis Aaron

1922–1943 (age 21)

Bone War Cemetery, Annaba

Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg

1887–1940 (age 53)

Casablanca

Auguste-Martin Desneux

1885–1946 (age 61)

cimetière militaire de Ben M'Sick

French military officer who served in North Africa during the early twentieth century.

Yamin A. Benarroch Benzaquen

1882–1949 (age 67)

Tangier Jewish cemetery

Guido Visconti di Modrone, 2nd Duke of Grazzano Visconti

1901–1942 (age 41)

El Alamein

Gabriel Branier

1904–1942 (age 38)

El Alamein

A military serviceman who gave his life during the North African campaign.

Pope Macarius III of Alexandria

1872–1945 (age 73)

Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral

Pope John XIX of Alexandria

1855–1942 (age 87)

Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral

A Coptic Orthodox Church leader who guided his community with spiritual wisdom.

Musa Bigiev

1874–1949 (age 75)

El Khalifa

Vahan Tekeyan

1878–1945 (age 67)

Cairo

An Armenian writer whose works explored identity and cultural experience.

Покровский, Андрей Георгиевич

1862–1944 (age 82)

Cairo

Şehzade Mehmed Ertuğrul

1912–1944 (age 32)

Cairo

An Ottoman prince whose life spanned a period of dynastic and regional transformation.

Graham Thomson Lyall

1892–1941 (age 49)

Egypt

Behiye Sultan

1881–1948 (age 67)

Cairo

An Ottoman princess who lived through the region's transition to modernity.

Charles Adams

1883–1948 (age 65)

Cairo

Безкровный, Александр Алексеевич

1866–1948 (age 82)

Alexandria

Russian military officer who served through the Imperial and Soviet periods.

Roberto Bandini

1917–1942 (age 25)

El Alamein Italian Military Memorial

Sergio Bresciani

1924–1942 (age 18)

El Alamein Italian Military Memorial

Italian military personnel who died at the Battle of El Alamein in 1942.

Alfredo Patroni

1891–1944 (age 53)

El Alamein Italian Military Memorial

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

1869–1947 (age 78)

St. Catherine's Cathedral, Alexandria

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Ian Lyle

1909–1942 (age 33)

El Alamein War Cemetery

Bill Carson

1916–1944 (age 28)

Heliopolis War Cemetery

Australian cricketer who died in military service in 1944.

Geoffrey Nares

1917–1942 (age 25)

Heliopolis War Cemetery

Somerset Maxwell

1905–1942 (age 37)

Heliopolis War Cemetery

British politician who died in military service in 1942.

Stephen Haggard

1911–1943 (age 32)

Heliopolis War Cemetery

Wilfred McClaughry

1894–1943 (age 49)

Heliopolis War Cemetery

Military officer who served from the early 20th century until his death in 1943.