Special Supplement to the: November 6, 2014
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MLA
Dan Ashton
Lest we forget Remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Take time to remember our veterans on November 11th.
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LEST WE FORGET OUR FALLEN HEROES
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Agur, Robin
Robert Jasper “Robin” Agur joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, 228 Squadron in 1940 as a wireless air gunner. He was killed in action on June 13, 1943. He is buried at the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, United Kingdom.
Bargholz, Douglas Berg, Andy
Andy Berg served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He served overseas in Germany in 1943 to 1944 as Rank Warrant Officer Class WO1. Berg was also stationed in many places in Canada with a total of 26 years with the RCAF.
In war they risked their lives for freedom
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Amm, Bill and Jack Amm, Carson
Lt. Carson Amm served with the Canadian Army 225th Battalion, C.F.C. during World War I.
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William (Bill) Amm, in front, and John (Jack) Amm) served in World War II. Bill Amm served with the air force, while Jack Amm served with the 1st Pacific Infantry in the army.
Douglas Joseph Bargholz enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force July 19, 1941 in Calgary. He served in Britain as an aero engine mechanic, Class A, with the ground crew of the 497 Canadian (Demon) Squadron of the Coastal and later Bomber Command.
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Blagborne, Bruce
Bruce Blagborne was a sergeant in training at Officer’s Cadet Training Unit, Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He graduated as a lieutenant in the Parachute Branch.
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Charlie, William
William Charlie served in Britain, the central Mediterranean and Europe during World War II. He was discharged Feb. 22, 1946.
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Coates, Mary
Mary Coates was in the signal corps in the British army for two years from 1943 to 1945. She was stationed in Inverness, Scotland.
Carter, Robert P.
Campbell, Violet
Vi Campbell served with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in England from 1941 to 1945.
Lt.-Col. Robert Carter served 27 years with Canada’s Air Force, including four tours of duty in Afghanistan. During his last tour, he was chief of staff for the Canadian Forces in Kabul. “Making a difference in Afghanistan” was a project to furnish a medical centre and supply things for families to do while waiting for treatment, since the whole family would come and wait there. Carter is a graduate of Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont. He is now retired from the military.
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Danyluk, Michael Clark, Mavis
Mavis Clark was a radar operator in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force from 1942 to 1945.
Michael Danyluk served in the 10th Dragoons in 1942 when he was 18 years old. He served in Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium. He was in the army more than four years.
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Doherty, Florence
Florence Doherty, sister of Summerland orchardist James Doherty, served in the military police from 1942 to 1945.
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Gauchie, Rene
Rene Gauchie joined the Canadian army in Edmonton at 16 years old and served in World War I and World War II. He served as a quartermaster sergeant.
Gillingham, Jack
Jack Gillingham served with the corvette HMCS Cobourg on convoy duty from Newfoundland to Londonderry, Ireland during World War II.
Hansen, Robert G.
Robert G. Hansen, LdSH (RC), served with the first UNEF Egypt, 1956 to 1957.
Ireland, Pauline
Pauline Ireland served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
Dorn, Roland
Roland Hugo Dorn joined the 22 Battery of the 13th Field Regiment Artillery at the age of 17 in 1940. He saw service in France, Belgium and Netherlands. He married war bride Enid Florence Buckle in April of 1944. They settled in Yorkton, Sask. after the war.
In Memory of One We Lost Somewhere over Scotland In the cold and misty cloud His plane was hit & disappeared Into a watery shroud... And when the clouds had lifted No trace, no sight, no sound... Somewhere over Scotland And his body never found. Somewhere over Scotland, The enemy did kill.... This uncle that we never knew But we remember still....
Kilburn, Jerry
Gillingham, Charles V.
Charles V. Gillingham enlisted with the Canadian army in 1943. He was killed in action in France in 1944 at the age of 24.
Gillingham, William A.
William A. Gillingham was a King’s Sergeant in World War I.
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Hughes, A. Hilton
A. Hilton Hughes served with the 12th Manitoba Dragoons.
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Jerry Kilburn served with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a pilot from 1941 to 1944. He served in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Lipscombe, Dudley
Dudley Arthur Lipscombe served in World War II in the British army. He was part of the Durham Light Infantry and served in Europe and north Africa. His rank was sergeant.
Mayne, James Gordon
Mayne, Edith May
Edith May Mayne served with the Wrens in Halifax and Washington D.C. with the Canadian Joint Mission.
James Gordon Mayne served with the RCAF in Canada and in Britain with the RAF.
McIntosh, David
Johnson, Harry
Harry Johnson served with the 8th Parachute Battalion with the British Army from 1945 to 1948. He served in Palestine.
Miller, Edson
Edson Miller served with the 89th O. Battalion C.E.F.
IT IS THE SOLDIER
It is the Soldier, not the minister Who has given us freedom of religion. It is the Soldier, not the reporter Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the Soldier, not the poet Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer Who has given us freedom to protest. It is the Soldier, not the lawyer Who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the Soldier, not the politician Who has given us the right to vote. It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to burn the flag. by Charles M. Province
David McIntosh joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in June, 1942 and was posted to a Royal Air Force transport squadron in Britain. He served there through the D-Day activities and then was posted to the 436 Squadron and served in Imphal, India and Akyab and Ramree Islands off the coast of Burma. He returned to Canada on the M.V. Mauretania Jan. 1, 1946.
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Mayor and Council would like to encourage everyone to take time on Tuesday, November 11th to honour and remember those brave men and women who served, and who continue to serve, our country proud every day. Let us never forget those who make the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Lest We Forget!
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Ian B. McCuaig enlisted in 1939 and in 1943, joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). In his rank as Navigation Officer he completed 40 active missions. When the war ended Ian returned to his love of orcharding and settled in Summerland with his wife, Marion (Baverstock) McCuaig.
We will never forget the men & women who fought for our freedom and country.
“Thank you Veterans. We shall never forget.” ~ Dan Albas Dan Albas, MP
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Military hospital
The Bignor Park Military Hospital, where Olive Millicent deThoren worked, was an estate home converted to a military hospital during World War I. When she lived in Summerland, de Thoren was called Millicent, but when she moved to England people called her Olive.
Museum adds World War I photos Since last year’s Remembrance Day, the Summerland Museum has received, previously unknown, photographs of two Summerlanders listed on the cenotaph. The only woman listed on the cenotaph is Millicent de Thoren. She was born in 1876 in Cheltenham, England. Her father was Baron Oscar William de Satge de Thoren, a French aristocrat. Millicent’s father was a graduate of Harrow School, like many of Summerland’s early pioneers. Her sister was Nina Garnett, wife of Cecil Frederick Garnett, both residents of Summerland. Baron De Thoren lived in retirement in Lowertown. When World War I began in 1914, Millicent de Thoren was 38 years old. She travelled to England
Millicent de Thoren to work as a Voluntary Air Detachment nurse at Bignor Park Military hospital, a large estate converted into a hospital. While providing care to
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wounded soldiers, she became ill with “septic poisoning.” She did not recover and died on Oct. 17, 1917. The Summerland Museum also received a photograph of Ralph ‘Rafe’ Osler from the Osler family in Toronto. Osler was the son of Prairie Valley orchardist and Summerland Curling Club founder Frank Osler. The Osler family is one of Canada’s most famous families. Rafe Osler’s uncles included Sir William Osler, world famous medical doctor; Sir Edmund Osler, president of the Dominion Bank (TD Trust); Britton Osler, the prosecuting lawyer for the Louis Riel Trial and Featherston Osler, Supreme Court judge. Ralph Osler was born in Winnipeg on Oct. 17, 1891. His father, Frank Osler, bought orchard land by present-day Morrow Avenue in 1903.
Ralph Osler His uncle, Sir Edmund Osler, also bought an orchard which is now where the Rutherford fruit stand is located. Ralph went to Trinity College, Port Hope in 1908 and
later attended McGill University. While in Montreal he was the private secretary to Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Ralph returned to Summerland and became the private secretary to J.J. Warren, president of the Kettle River Valley Railway when it was being built in Summerland. He was one of the first in the Okanagan Valley to enlist in the war on Nov. 9. 1914. He was killed at the Battle of Ypres on June 16, 1916. Remembrance banners, depicting soldiers named on the Summerland cenotaph, are on display around the community. This year there are 36 street banners showing soldiers from the cenotaph. Last year, nine soldiers were featured on the banners.
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Norris, R.E.
K.I. Joyce (now Norris) served served with the Canadian Women’s Army Corps when she was 18. She took her basic training in Kitchener, Ont.
R.E. Norris served with RCNVR in combined operations when he was 17. He was involved in the invasion on Juno Beach, Normandy, France in 1944.
O’Brien, Percy
Percy O’Brien served as a bombardier with the 96th Battery, 5 Canadian Anti-tank Regiment, Royal Canadian Army.
Phillips, Doiran
Doiran Phillips was a private in G (intelligence) in the Salisbury Plain District, Bulford, Salisbury, England from 1943 to 1944.
Thomson, J. Howe
F/O J. Howe Thomson was a navigator with the 408 Goose Squadron, 6 Group, Bomber Command.
Parker, Lawrence Odegaard, Norah and Hans
Norah Odegaard was with the Air Force as post mistress stationed in Calgary from 1942 until 1945. Hans Odegaard was with the Army as a mechanic from January 1942 to January 1946. He was overseas from August 1943 until December 1945. They were married Aug. 15, 1943, five days before he was sent overseas. He returned two years later.
Lawrence (Larry) Parker enlisted Sept. 20, 1940 and was part of the Edmonton Fusiliers. He served in the United Kingdom, central Mediterranean and Europe. He was discharged Dec. 6, 1945. He lived in Summerland from 1989 until his death in 2003.
Pugh, Iory
lorwerth Llyllwlyn Pugh served with the Lord Strathcona’s Horse Royal Canadians from 1942 to 1946.
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Topham, Charles
Charles Topham served with the B.C. Dragoons during World War II.
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Sanborn, Dewey Lee
Dewey Lee Sanborn served in World War I. He was the president of the Legion when this picture was taken in 1917 or 1918.
Smith, Alex J.
Alex J. (Sandy) Smith was a navigator/observer in the 604 Pathfinder Squadron with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He died March 12, 1943.
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Turnbull, Don Smith, Edward F.
Cpl. Edward F. Smith served with the Royal Canadian Air Force with motor transport.
Smith, Gordon W.
Gordon W. Smith served with R.A.F. Squadron 608 as a flight mechanic in North Africa and Sicily from 1941 to 1946.
Don Turnbull was in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1940 to 1944. He became a pilot and then trained others to fly. He lived in Summerland from 1952 until his death in 2004.
Smith, Gordon D.
Gordon D. Smith served with the Royal Canadian Air Force as an instrument technician with the 433 Squadron.
Edward Young, a sergeant gunner, served in World War II. He was missing in action in 1942. He is buried in the Netherlands.
Young, Zoe
Smith, Phillip
Phillip M. Smith, Pte. K50975, joined the Canadian army in April, 1943 and was discharged in February, 1946. He was a volunteer in chemical warfare experiments in Suffield, Alberta in July, 1943.
Young, Edward
Waite, Deborah
Deborah (Harris) Waite, daughter of Doug and Lenore Harris, served with the RCAF from 1975 to 1982.
Zoe Young (nee Shaw) served in the British army with the Auxiliary Territorial Services Claims Commission from 1942 to 1945. She married Douglas Young in England in July, 1945.
REMEMBRANCE DAY 2014 NOVEMBER 11th • CALENDAR of EVENTS 10:30am 10:45am 11:00am 2:00pm If you require further information, desire a ride to the service or wish to place a wreath, please contact the Branch at 250-494-2301.
5:00pm
Parade form up on Wharton Street March to Cenotaph Two minute wave of silence and service Branch #22 open to members and guests Entertainment “Sister Act” - Children Welcome Remembrance Day Dinner Tickets available at Branch for $15 each. Veterans and their spouses are free, but must pick up their tickets in advance.
After the Parade all Legion Members, Veterans and their spouses, Ladies Auxiliary and Summerland Pipe Band on parade are invited to the Legion. All members of Cadets, the Scouting movement, and SSS Band are invited to the Legion for refreshments and a luncheon. Donations for the Food Bank Christmas Hampers will kindly be accepted at the Legion up until Dec. 15th.
Summerland Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion is again soliciting donations and public support for its Annual Poppy Drive and Remembrance Day Ceremonies. The public is encouraged to attend the ceremonies at the Cenotaph.