131 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca DUNPHY, Peter “Pete” WWI Pete was one of the three Dunphy brothers who served in WWI. He was killed in action in Germany on November 11, 1918, after the Armistice was signed. He was removing the wounded and dead from the last battlefield when a German sniper’s bullet decapitated him. This occurred after the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, eleven hundred hours, 1918. You can imagine the anguish of his mother and family when the telegram arrived a few days after peace had been declared. DUNPHY, Raymond Churchill WWII Raymond enlisted in November 1942 in Winnipeg. He took basic training in Portage la Prairie and then went overseas and served in England and Continental Europe with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. He was discharged in March 1945 with rank of Lance Corporal. Raymond passed away on February 21, 1969. EATON, Harry WWI Harry enlisted in Winnipeg during the first few days of World War I. He went overseas with the 8th Battalion of the Little Black Devils, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served in France until he lost his leg at the Battle of the Somme. Harry returned to Canada for discharge at the end of the war, after having spent many months in a hospital in England. Harry went back to England and married Elsie. They returned to Red Rose, Manitoba and settled on a farm. Harry, his brother George, and sister Alice were pioneers in the Red Rose area and Alice taught school for many years at Dallas.
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