135 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca LANG, Francis H. (Sonny) WWII Francis was born on July 24, 1916 at Lyleton, Manitoba, the son of Frank and Ethel Lang of Coulter, MB. He enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force in July 1940 in Winnipeg, training at Regina, Fort William, Mossbank, Toronto and Jarvis. He went overseas in April 1941 and completed his required number of operational flights as an air gunner. Sonny received his Flying Officer Commission in May 1943, returned to Canada in February 1944 for a month’s leave and married Josephine Cracknell of Fort William. He then returned to England for his second tour of operations. He was killed in action on June 13, 1944 at age 27. Sonny is buried in the Calais Canadian War Cemetery in France. LANG, Murray J. WWII Murray was born on April 6, 1918 at Lyleton, Manitoba, the son of Frank and Ethel Lang of Coulter, MB. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 and trained at Trenton, Brandon, Winnipeg and Mossbank. He was married on July 7, 1942 to Evelyn Webb of Browning, Saskatchewan and went overseas a few weeks later, on July 20th. He was killed in action on June 12, 1943 over Dusseldorf, Germany flying in a Halifax aircraft. He was twenty-five. Murray is buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery in Germany. LATCHAM, Garry J. PEACETIME Garry was born in Brandon, Manitoba in 1941 and joined the Navy in 1960 in Winnipeg. He was stationed at Esquimalt, BC and Halifax, NS, serving aboard the aircraft carrier Bonaventure, the destroyer Saguenay and the frigate Fort Erie, training as a naval apprentice in engineering. After 20 years in the Navy, he moved to Meadow Lake, SK to work first as assistant supervisor in the Wabamun Power Plant, then as a steam engineer, advancing to steam plant shift supervisor for Millar-Western Pulp Company. In 1962, he married Karen Ranson and had two sons and four grandchildren. Garry retired to Meadow Lake and has been a member of the Meadow Lake Branch of The Royal Canadian Legion for many years. LANSDOWN, Leslie P. WWII Leslie was born in Woking, England in 1900 and joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, serving in England, Sicily and the Italian Peninsula. When WWII began, he was recruited as a pathologist for the # 5 General Hospital of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in Winnipeg. In 1940, he sailed to England to join his hospital and when the Canadian Army Hospital on the estate of Lady Astor was completed, # 5 Hospital took over the premises. He served in Sicily and southern Italy and in late 1943, was appointed Director of the Pathology Laboratories at the Army Hospital in England. In 1949, he became Pathologist at the Provincial Laboratory in Winnipeg and then Director in 1956. Leslie passed away in 1971.
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