7 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca ABRAHAM, Omar WWII Omar was born in Lebanon in 1926. He joined the Canadian Light Infantry and served in Canada. He passed away in 2005 and had been a member of Branch #90 Fort Garry of The Royal Canadian Legion for fifty-five years. ADAMS, Leslie WWII Leslie was born to Joseph and Harriet Adams in Selkirk, Manitoba on December 21, 1905. He joined the Saskatoon Light Infantry, Winnipeg Rifles, and lost his arm in Ortona, Italy when his machine gun nest was hit by mortar on December 9, 1943. It was hard getting used to his arm prosthesis but there were no obstacles he couldn’t overcome and he always set out to do anything other individuals could do. He and his wife, Olive Blanche Adams, had four children, Carol, Leslie, Larry and Dennis. Leslie passed away on April 28, 1974 and had been a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Selkirk Branch #42 for twenty-nine years. AGNEW, Bruce W. WWII Bruce was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1924 and joined The Royal Canadian Air Force as an airframe mechanic. He served in Canada, Alaska, Britain and Northwest Europe. Before D-Day, Bruce went to Ayr, Scotland to qualify on Hawker Typhoons and after D-Day, he went to France where he was injured. He was later released from the RCAF Burn Ward and came home in 1945. In 1946, Bruce served on P51 Mustangs in Montreal and in Rivers, Manitoba. He had been a forty-year member of the Fort Garry Branch #90 of The Royal Canadian Legion when he passed away in 2006. AGERBAK, Tage G. WWII Tage was born in Denmark in 1915 and immigrated to Canada with his family in December 1927. He married and had a son. He joined the Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, with his two brothers, Buster and Ken. After serving guard duty in Jamaica and Bermuda, the Grenadiers were shipped to Hong Kong in the fall of 1941 and were involved in heavy fighting when the Japanese invaded on December 7, 1941. He was severely injured on December 20, 1941 in an explosion in his pill box and he, along with several other badly injured men, was left behind during the retreat. They were never seen again. Agerbak Lake in Northern Manitoba is named after him.
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