123 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca HOWARD, Earl Wesley WWII Earl was born in Mather, Manitoba, on April 4, 1919. He joined the Army and served in Canada. After the war, he returned home to farm and married Joan Clements of Winnipeg and had two sons. He passed away in 1994 and had been a member of the Cartwright-Mather Branch #86 of The Royal Canadian Legion for 20 years. HUGHES, Wallace Nelson WWII Wallace was born in Atwood, Ontario, on June 16, 1924. He served in the Navy from 1943-45 and trained on the U.S. Hamilton, the M.V. Maureen, the S.S. Elm Bay and the S.S. Dominion Park in the Atlantic and the Pacific. He was honoured with a Confederation Medal, Atlantic Star, Pacific Star, 1937-45 Star, Voluntary Service Medal, and Overseas Service Medal. Wallace married Jean Cooke on May 14, 1949, and farmed most of his life and was also a mail carrier at the Devlin Post Office from 1971-1996. He was a member of the municipal council for 28 years, a Burdavit Credit Union board member, and a member of the Co-Operative Shipping Association and also was past president and a Life Member of Emo Legion Branch #99 and had received Senior of the Year for La Vallee Township in 2001. Wallace passed away on October 8, 2005, at the Emo Hospital in Emo, Ontario. JANSSON, Walter Stanley WWII Walter was born in Broadlands (Pine Falls area) on December 30, 1917. At the age of 25, he enlisted in the Forestry Corps in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in April 1942, and took his basic training at Portage La Prairie and Fort William before transferring to the 24th Field Artillery in Shilo, Manitoba, and was later stationed at Hastings Park, Nanaimo and Comox, BC, before being deployed to Kiska in the Aleutians by the, as he termed it, cattle boat “Columbia.” A second transfer to the Canadian Fusiliers Infantry re-deployed Walter to England where he remained until the end of hostilities as a 2-1/C instructor. He returned to Canada and was employed by Manitoba Hydro at Great Falls, Manitoba. He married his wife, Gladys, and had two boys and four grandchildren. Walter received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and the Defence Medal. JACKSON, John C. WWII John was born in Inglis, Manitoba, in 1923. He enlisted in Winnipeg in December 1942 with the 410 RSU and the 127 & 126 Wing H.A., serving in the UK, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He was discharged in Winnipeg in April 1946, and passed away in 1996. John had been a member of Russell Branch #159 of The Royal Canadian Legion.
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