In providing memorial pages for the Queen Anne students who died in World War II, we know that our list is not only incomplete but erroneous. We are starting with a list called "Kuay Supplement, For Queen Anne Men and Women in the Armed Services," which was compiled by Queen Anne journalism students with the help of many others in the spring of 1945, when V-E Day and V-J Day were perhaps uncertain hopes, though they did soon occur, V-E Day on May 8, and V-J Day on August 6. Compiled were the names of 2403 in the services, including the Merchant Marine, 607 of them officers. 76 are in the In Memoriam list, though undoubtedly the count of those who died in WWII was at that point incomplete. Indeed, there are 19 who are noted as POW or MIA. We hope to hear from any alumni who can give us further information about the WWII Queen Anne casualties.

In the column below the photo is the list of those we have - at least tentatively - identified, organized by their years of graduation. Click on the year to link to the page with photos and high school information for the students of that year.

To Our Men and Women in the Armed Forces:

Your many friends and near kin have helped compile this list of the Queen Annne High School men and women in the Armed Forces. You number 2400, six times as many as we had in World War I. Even so, you are only one five-thousandths of America's Armed Forces. But to us, your parents and nearest of kin, you are the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Corps scattered in all the areas of combat. This list goes to press March 12, when the news comes of the crossing of the historic Rhine, reportedly not far from the point where Caesar's bridge in 54 B.C. bewildered the early Teutons. How often have the tides of victory ebbed and flowed across this historic Rhine in the past two thousand years! Aside from the human anguish and grief of these martial centuries, it would stagger the imagination to contemplate what these same martial energies directed in the channels of peace could have done for a United States of Europe patterned after our own good land. Here a Rhode Islander does not live in dread of invasion by the Empire State of New York, and the absence of trade and travel barriers equalizes the resources of the whole country.

This crossing of the Rhine causes hope to mount high for an early end of the European War. The folks back home would like to celebrate an imminent V.E. Day on these did November 11, 1918. But we realize that V.E. Day, when it comes, doesn't mean all is over but the shouting, but rather a momentary pause to steady our nevers and gird ourselves for the greater struggle in the Pacific.