173 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca KURTZ, John Allen WWII John was born in 1924 in Kenora, Ontario. He enlisted in the Army on November 17, 1943 in Winnipeg. He served with the 1st Parachute Battalion in Canada, Britain and Northwest Europe during World War II. He was honourably discharged on June 15, 1946 at the rank of Private. He received the France and Germany Star, the Defence Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp and the War Medal 1939-1945. John passed away in 1994. LAFANTAISIE, Jean Georges PEACETIME Jean was born in St. Malo, Manitoba in 1943 and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1961. He took basic training (boot camp) in St. Jean, Quebec and then onto Camp Borden, Ontario. He stayed at Camp Borden until he enrolled in Radar & Communication School at CFB Clinton, Ontario. After a year there he was posted to Canadian Air Force Station, Saint Sylvestre, Quebec with the radar maintenance team. After about a year there he went to Winnipeg as an aircraft electrician and then to Canadian Forces Station Lowther, Ontario and continued his radar work. Jean’s last posting was at CFS Senneterre, Quebec. After being discharged following five years in the military, he worked as a tech for Canadian Aviation Electronics, went for a spell to the Artic on the DEW Line and then to Manitoba where he was with MTS for thirty years and semi-retired in 1999. Jean looked after an apartment building until 2014 and fully retired then. He married Linda Nelson from Canora, SK and they had a daughter and Jean has three children from a previous marriage. Jean and Linda live in Transcona. LAWRENCE, William A. PEACETIME William was born in the Athabasca region of Alberta in 1932 and joined the Canadian Army in 1950 with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry. He began his training at Fort Osborne Barracks in Winnipeg and travelled to Fort Lewis in Washington State where he took the regular basic army training and earned his parachute badge (wings) while there. William joined the ‘Special Forces’ on tours with the United Nations to both Japan and to Korea. He was discharged in late 1952 and after a 32 year career as a truck driver, he retired. William married June Martha Seiler and they reside in Winnipeg.
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