89 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca HERITAGE, Alfred WWII Alfred was born in Elkhorn, MB. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942. He went overseas and spent four years in England serving as an air frame technician. He was a ground crew member on No. 407 Squadron in Coastal Command. Upon his discharge, he returned to Elkhorn and took over the family farm. Alfred and Agnes retired in Elkhorn in 1975 and were members of Elkhorn Legion Branch 58. HOLMES, Frank WWII Frank was born in Ochre River, Manitoba in 1914. He enlisted in the Army and served in Canada, England, France and Germany during World War II. Frank volunteered in 1941 and went into France on D-Day as a Corporal with B Company of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. They took heavy machine gun fire on the beach and only 27 out of 186 men in B Company could continue at the end of the day. After they moved in under a machine gun in a concrete bunker, Frank was boosted up to toss grenades into the bunker and stop the machine gun. The survivors at the beach advanced with another company but were surrounded and captured on the third day. Frank was a prisoner in Stalag 12A at Linberg before being moved to Stalag 357 at Bad Fallingbostel, north of Hanover. That camp was liberated by a British outfit in the spring of 1945. After the war, he farmed near Strathclair, MB until he suffered the first of a series of heart attacks in 1958. Later, he was a Commissionaire at Rivers, MB and at Calgary, AB. He was a member of the Strathclair Legion Branch for about twenty years. Frank passed away at the Regina General Hospital in 1997. HORNING, Wally L. SPECIAL DUTY AREA Wally was born in Millwood, Manitoba in 1940. He joined the Navy and served with the Pacific Command in Canada in Special Duty Area.
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