McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
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Lighthall, W. S. (William Schuyler), 1895-
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- Lighthall, W. W. S. (William Wilkes Schuyler), 1895-
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1894-1978
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W. W. S. Lighthall, a lawyer like his father, William Douw Lighthall, grew up in Westmount, Quebec. He enlisted in the military in 1914, and served as a flier throughout World War I, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war he return to Montreal to graduate from McGill Law School and was a practising attorney there till World War II was declared in 1939; he then volunteered in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked in administration until 1945 when he represented Canada in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
He and his wife, Elizabeth Gladys Rutherford, whom he had married in 1923, moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1952, and set up a successful real estate business. He was named Wing Commander of the Silver Wings of World War I there in 1975.
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