James Patrick O’Neail

Parents James Thomas O’Neail of Paris, Ontario and Kate Bridget Martin from Frontenac, Ontario, had three sons. All served in the Royal Canadian Airforce in WWII and returned safely.

Leading Aircraftman James Patrick O’Neail, born in 1921, grew up and went to school in London, Ontario. In 1940, the family moved to Paris and lived at 1 Arnold Street when he enlisted in the RCAF. His father died while he was serving overseas. When he returned from WWII, he married Mary Elizabeth Nunan of Paris in 1949. The following year he enrolled in the University of Western Ontario in London. He earned a BA and stayed in London for the rest of his life, where he and Mary Elizabeth raised four children. He died at the age of 71 in London but is buried with his wife in Conworth Cemetery at 910 Governor’s Road West in Paris.