119 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca LAGIMODIERE, Pat WWI Pat joined the 222nd Battalion in St. Boniface, Manitoba and was transferred to the 24th Battalion in France. He received the Military Medal for Valour at Vimy Ridge. Pat, Harry Larence and two other men were the only survivors of their Battalion at Vimy Ridge. Pat was promoted to Corporal following that Battle. He returned to Canada for discharge and lived in Fisher Branch for a short time before he returned to Winnipeg, working there until his death. LAMBERT, Astrid “Smart” WWII Smart was originally from Hodgson, Manitoba and joined the CWAC in Blue River, British Columbia in December 1942 where she had been employed. She was transferred to Kamloops, then to Nanaimo serving as a Transport Officer while in Canada. After being sent to Halifax she went overseas landing in Scotland. On arrival in Scotland, the women were met with fanfare and piped off the ship on to land.While overseas, she served in Aldershot, England then on to the continent ending up in Apeldoorn, Holland in 1945. Smart was working as a clerk for RCEME again in September. In a letter written to her sister on September 19, 1945 Astrid writes, “Up until last week we had been in tents, which was rather fun, but it rains so much in this country, that it was very damp and chilly. We used to go to work dressed in battle dress, rubber boots and a ground sheet over our shoulders but now our offices are in a lovely big building, that used to be a priests’ school.” She was discharged from Apeldoorn, Holland in March 1946 and returned to Canada on the Queen Elizabeth. She went to Hodgson, Manitoba and then to British Columbia. She was postmistress at Copper Mountain and Coal Mont for several years. Astrid resided with her husband in Coal Mont, British Columbia at ‘Sanctum’. LAVALLEE, Henry Joseph KOREA Henry was born on August 8, 1932 to Victor and Louise Lavallee in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. He joined the Army in the division of PPCLI in Winnipeg in 1951. He trained in Winnipeg and Currie Headquarters in Calgary, going overseas in 1952 to Korea. The 2PPCLI fought within the Royal Australian Regiment and in the fall of 1952, occupied Hill 355 known as Little Gibraltar. Private Lavallee was killed in action on July 19, 1953 just prior to the signing of the Armistice on July 27, 1953. He is buried at the United Nations Cemetery in Busan, South Korea. He is on the Korean War Memorial Wall at the Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Ontario.
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