LANCE CORPORAL STEWART CULLETON. looking for info

[Grant Bowker]

Since he died on active service it should be relatively easy to get any existing information from Veterans Affairs Canada and the National Archives.
I don't know enough about the process for naming geographic features to be able to tell you who to ask, but there has to be some kind of register of why the feature was named for an individual. Moving into guesswork - it seems likely that the lake was named for him as a result of some special action on his part (not all casualties got a lake named for them), so there has to be some kind of record existing for that action, whether in the unit War Diary or elsewhere. Do the records of his death mention any awards for valour? Citations for awards can sometimes be quite detailed and even if not directly helpful, might point in a useful direction.

[Bob Carriere]

Geez for once I can contribute.....

NRCan.... excuse me....Natural Resources Canada includes in it's mandate the maps of Canada.....

There is a secretariat called the .."Geographical Names Secretariat Board"

...ask for the Senior Toponomy Advisor....Jocelyne Revi......992-4100... she should be able to help.... they have the history for all names in Canada that appear on Maps......

BooBee

[rogerculleton]

i left a couple of messages at veterans affairs medals div., no call back yet. i also checked the canadian archives (collections canada) and i found the location of burial, a picture of his headstone and some documents of his death in regards to the war crimes committed by the nazi ss 12th panzer div. i heard he was mentioned in a book titled conduct unbecoming. i'll have to pick that up. thanks grant

[rogerculleton]

thanks for that info bob, do you have an area code