77 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca CHAMBERS, Thomas B. WWI Thomas was born in England in 1878. He joined the Fort Garry Horse serving in Canada, England and France. He had been a member of the Rovekton, Manitoba, Branch of The Royal Canadian Legion for 14 years before he passed away in 1951. CHAMBERS, Thomas R. WWII Thomas was born in Boissevain, Manitoba, in 1919. He joined the Royal Canadian Army Service Corp/Medical Corps serving in Canada, England, France, Germany and Holland. Thomas was a member of the Medical Corps involved in removing Jewish inmates from Dachau Concentration Camp at the end of World War Two. He had been a member of Boissevain Branch #10 of The Royal Canadian Legion for 25 years before he passed away in 1990. CHEVALIER, Robert WWI Robert was born in Everbeka, Belgium, in 1895. He joined the 222nd Battalion on February 18, 1916, taking his training at Camp Hughes for six months and then shipped to Seaforth, England, where he took more training and travelled on the ship S.S. Olympic, where he went with the 2nd Battalion. He was discharged on April 10, 1919. When the war was over, soldiers were anxious to return home but there weren’t enough ships and riots soon broke out. Robert witnessed the Kenmel riots and came back home at a later date as he stayed behind to clean up the battlefields. Robert received the Victory Medal, the British War Medal, and the War Service Badge Class “A.” CHESTER, Oliver W. WWII Oliver was born in Reston, Manitoba, in 1919. He joined the Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry in Winnipeg and served overseas in England. He was head cook in the Officer’s Mess and was on guard duty watching the German planes when he was wounded by shrapnel and spent four months in hospital in England. He was made a Life Member of the Reston Branch #106 of The Royal Canadian Legion and ran Bingos for 25 years. Oliver passed away in Reston in 2002.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTM0NTk1OA==