31 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca BULLOCK, Lyle K. WWII Lyle was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1921 and volunteered with the Royal Canadian Artillery on October 11, 1939, enrolling with the South Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian 2nd Division as a radio operator. He served in Canada, England, France, Holland and Germany and participated in the Dieppe Raid. He was captured and survived 3 POW camps until he was liberated. After his honourable discharge in July 1945, Lyle worked for the Canadian Post Office for thirty-one years and resided in the Charleswood Community. He was a member of RCL Charleswood Branch #100 for fifty-one years and died in 2008. Lyle received the 1939-45 Star, the 1939 Volunteer Medal, the Confederation Medal, the Dieppe Medal, the Queen Elizabeth Medal and the POW Medal. BURKITT, Russell A. WWII Russell was born in Morden, Manitoba in 1921. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army Signal Corps, 2nd Division in Winnipeg, MB in May, 1940 and was in England by September 2, 1940. Serving as a driver and Line Patrol, Russell was wounded at Caen, France in July 1944 and was sent home to Winnipeg and released in 1945. He received the France and Germany Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, the War Medal, the 1935-1945 Star and the Normandy Medal. Back in Thornhill, MB, Russell married, raised four children and farmed in the Morden area until 1966. Russell currently resides in Legion House1, Morden and has been a member of the RCL Morden Branch #11 for sixty-four years. CANTLON, George C. WWII George was born in Deleau, Manitoba in 1921. He joined the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Royal Regiment of Canada and served in France where he was killed in Normandy, in 1944. His name is commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial in France and Cantlon Lake, northeast of Reindeer Lake, was named after him in 1972. George received the 1939-1945 Star, the France and Germany Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp and the 1939-1945 War Medal. CAMERON, Thomas K. WWII Tom was born in Stonewall in 1911. He joined the Army in 1941 and served in Europe with the 21st Light Anti-Aircraft and Canadian Paratrooper Battalions. After his discharge in 1946, he returned to Stonewall and worked as a trucker for Fred Mulligan in Rosser as well as for the Winnipeg Supply Company and later, at the Stony Mountain Penitentiary’s hospital. Tom was married to Jean Good of Woodlands and they had two sons, Randy and Tim. When he passed away in 1968 of lung cancer, Tom had been a member of Stony Mountain Branch #142 and Stonewall Branch #52 of The Royal Canadian Legion for many years.
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