135 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca MILLIKEN, Mona I. WWII Mona was born in 1919 in Reston, Manitoba. She joined the Royal Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC) in 1942 and served as a Private. After basic training in Vermilion, AB, she was posted to the Canadian Army Signal Corps at Fort Osborne in Winnipeg where she became a supervisor. She was later posted to the Canadian Military Unit where she acted as secretary to the officer in charge and censored the prisoners’ mail. She met and married Al Ante, a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force while in the CWAC and they made their home in Penticton, BC following the war. Mona passed away in 2004. MITCHELL, Kenneth William WWII Kenneth was born in 1922 in Miniota, Manitoba. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as Navigator-Gunner with 356 and 357 Squadrons in England, India, and Burma. Kenneth was a member of Miniota Legion Branch 66 for thirtyfour years before he passed away in 1992. MOORE, John T. “Jack” WWII Jack was born in Boissevain, Manitoba in 1912. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and was attached to the RAF, serving in England during World War II. He became a member of Boissevain Legion Branch 10 around 1946. MOONEY, William WWI William, whose Irish immigrant father had been with the Northwest Mounted Police in their trek west, was born in 1880 and educated in the Hazeldell School near Cartwright, Manitoba. During World War I, he joined the Eastern Ontario Regiment of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and served in France and Belgium. In a letter to his brother Robert, he talked about a five-hour delay due to a storm while crossing the Atlantic. Had they been on schedule, he said, they would have been sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, as had another ship. Private Mooney was killed by a German sniper in Belgium in 1915 but he was reported missing in action. Official confirmation only came in 1916 in a letter signed by Major General Sam Hughes. William is buried in Menin Gardens in Ypres, Belgium.
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