153 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca MILLIKEN, J. “Glen” WWII Glen was born in 1920 in Sinclair, Manitoba. On May 26, 1941, he enlisted in the 70th Field Battery, 16th Field Regiment and trained in Shilo, MB, Debert, NS, Long Branch, ON, and Sussex, NB. He also did guard duty in Arvida, QC. Due to his previous training as a nonpermanent soldier, he became an N. C. O. Glen sailed for England on August 8, 1942 and went directly to Colchester. He then moved around the south of England doing guard duty and providing air support at various HQs and in London. After three months in Wales on a War Gunnery course, he demonstrated gun drills for the British Army at Clacton-on-Sea, where he was seconded to the British Army for 10 months as an instructor. Back with the Canadian Army, he instructed new officers and other personnel on #2 C.A.R.U. Glen was diagnosed with stomach ulcers and was discharged in Canada on September 18, 1945. He has been a member of Brandon Legion Branch 3 for thirty-nine years. MISCHUK, Stanley T. WWII Stanley was born in Poland in 1923. He joined the Army and served with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles (Little Black Devils) in England, Scotland, Belgium, Holland and Germany during World War II. Stanley passed away in 2002. MOFFIT, Sherwood Langley WWII Sherwood was born in 1920 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. During WWII, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and climbed into a Tiger Moth trainer aircraft in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on July 6, 1942, starting a military and commercial flying career that would span 40 years. Sent to Dershore Royal Air Force Base in Worchester, England, he joined Canadian Bomber Squadron 150 and piloted the Wellington bomber on 39 missions. After the war, he trained as a commercial pilot and also helped his team win a Manitoba Intermediate A Hockey Championship. Sherwood died in a plane crash in Beattie, Nevada in 1981. MITCHELL, Erle Saxon WWII Erle was born in Exeter, Ontario in 1917. He joined the Royal Canadian Dental Corps in Winnipeg on June 27, 1940. Private Mitchell became a Corporal in 1941 and was a Sergeant by 1944, serving as a dental technician in Canada, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and the Central Mediterranean area. He received the 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, World War II Medal, as well as the Netherlands “Thank You Canada” Medal of Remembrance in relation to the liberation of Holland. Erle was discharged on February 4, 1946 and on February 23, married Fern Finch-Field who had waited for him all through the war. He joined his father, Wilbur Mitchell, who served with the Canadian Dental Corps in WWI, in pioneering plastic artificial eyes using the dental plastics they both worked with. Erle was a member of Fort Rouge Legion Branch 97 (now 252 Winnipeg South Osborne) for thirty-five years before he died on November 26, 1972 of a heart attack due to complications from Diabetes.
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