113 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca KRAWCHUK, Nestor WWII Nestor enlisted on March 12, 1941 at HMCS Chippawa. He was there until June 1942 when he was discharged because he was underage. On July 21, 1944 he re-enlisted in the Navy. The first part of his training was at HMCS Chippawa, Winnipeg until November 10, 1944. He then went to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia until December 23, 1944. He served on HMCS St. Francis from December 23, 1944 to January 26, 1945 in the Bay of Fundy. He took torpedo training at HMCS Stadacona in Halifax from February 21, 1945 to April 15, 1945. After this he was assigned to the Anti-Submarine Mining Base at the Naval Magazine at Bedford Basin in Halifax because he had leg trouble and was unable to remain at sea. Nestor was in Halifax during the explosion in July 1945 which destroyed all of the Naval Magazine except the Mining Base Building. While he was at the Mining Base he boarded out, as they did not live at the base. The day of the explosion he had just got back to his room about an hour and a half before the explosion and was lying on the bed when the first blast came. It blew the plaster off the ceiling and he ended up on the floor. Nestor’s landlady, who had survived the first explosion in 1917, took off and they did not see her for three days. When they heard from her she was in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. On November 5, 1945 he was sent back to Winnipeg for discharge on November 25, 1945. He returned to Fisher Branch to farm, got married and had three children. They moved to Winnipeg in 1962 and Nestor worked for Canada Post Corp until his retirement in 1984. KROKOSH, Phillip WWII Phillip was born in Poland in 1907. He served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment during World War II. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion, Frenchman Butte Branch 183 for fifty years. Phillip passed away in 1990.
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