87 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca CLEMENT, Richard PEACETIME Richard was born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1944. At the age of fourteen, he joined the Army Cadets as one of the Coppercliff Highlanders. He went through four years of training learning to drive jeeps and trucks, learn the Morse code and spent his summers at Camp Ipperwash training on the rifle range. Richard worked his way up to become the Commanding Officer and when he was eighteen, he joined the Militia with the 58 Light Anti-Aircraft division. He took some training at Niagara on the Lake and became a Lance Bombardier. Richard left the militia and joined the Regular Army and went to Toronto to join the 6 Personal Depot in the Military Police. He went to Camp Borden for basic training with the Group 1 Military Police and was then posted to Camp Petawawa with 2 Provost Platoon in 1964. He was posted for summer training in New Brunswick and then back to Camp Petawawa where he took a Canadian Guard’s Junior NCO course. He was transferred to London, Ontario with the Military Police Detachment looking after the guard house and patrolling the base. Richard went to Rivers for paratrooper training course and to Camp Shilo where he completed the high tower jumps and received his paratrooper’s wings. He went on a six month tour to Cyprus, overseas with the 1 Royal Canadian Regiment and patrolled the Kyrenia Mountains. Richard was discharged in 1969 and upon his return to civilian life joined the Winnipeg Police Force until his retirement in 2000. Richard married Anne Brunton and they had two daughters. The Clements live in Winnipeg. CLEMENTSON, George BOER WAR, WWI & WWII George Clementson was in the Boer War, World War I and World War II. He was in the Royal Engineers Regiment. George served in England, Africa and France. He was discharged and returned to farm in Fisherton. He passed away on May 1, 1954 and is interned in the Fisherton Cemetery.
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