Students from King’s University College at Western University in London, Ontario visited the Juno Beach Centre this morning!

These students have been awarded the prestigious Juno Beach Centre Fellowship. Members of the upper-year course, The World Wars in History, Memory, and Reconciliation, they have been touring Canadian battlefields and memorial sites in Belgium and France.

For the fellowship, their work was included in our exhibition, From Dieppe to Juno: Exceptional Destinies. Displayed in the lobby of the Centre, it features 10 profiles and is free for anyone to see until December 2023. The students were understandably thrilled to see their work on display. They were quite keen to learn about how the museum operates within the Second World War memory, heritage, and tourism fields.

The King’s students have also just concluded research for other aspects of the museum displays as part of the Faces of Canada Today permanent exhibition, which is slated to reopen in 2024 on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

The 17 students on the tour are led by Professors Graham Broad and Katrina Paiserbek and were joined at the Juno Beach Centre by the president of King’s University College, David C. Malloy, PhD. Dr. Malloy’s father was Dennis “Bud” G. Malloy, who served in 402 Squadron RCAF during the Dieppe Raid and later received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

After two long years during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are excited to see Canadian students returning to the Juno Beach Centre once more!

King’s University College President David C. Malloy, PhD stands next to the Rolls Royce Merlin engine in Zone 2 of our From Dieppe to Juno exhibition. This was the type of engine that powered the Supermarine Spitfire fighter, the same type of aircraft flown on the Dieppe Raid by Malloy’s father, Dennis “Bud” G. Malloy.

Rebecca Le Savoureux (left) stands in front of the Juno Beach Centre at the Remembrance and Renewal memorial sculpture with Dr. Graham Broad, Professor Katrina Paiserbek, and Dr. David C. Malloy from King’s University College.