125 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca LINNELL, Stephen Robert WWII Stephen was born in 1924 in the RM of Roblin, Manitoba. He was only nineteen years old when he left his home in Cartwright, Manitoba and enlisted at Fort Osborne Barracks in Winnipeg on November 17, 1943. His basic training began at the barracks in Winnipeg and included training in Shilo, MB and Woodstock, ON. In June 1944, Stephen left Canada on the Lord Nelson sailing towards England. It was in Aldershot, England where Stephen joined the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders and leaving Aldershot on a small boat destined for Dieppe, France. Stephen’s unit joined the fight just a couple of weeks after D-Day with the objective to overtake the trenches in Normandy. Never staying in one place more than a night, the Highlanders and the Allied soldiers had the Germans on the run and it was during this time that Stephen suffered his first injuries where a metal striker from an antipersonnel mine passed through his eyelid. Treated at a nearby hospital, Stephen continued on with his unit. In the spring of 1945, while crossing the Rhine River into Germany, near the town of Calcar, a German sniper ended Stephen’s tour of duty with a bullet to the left arm. Stephen rehabilitated at Convalescent Hospital (east of London) and after the war was shipped back to Deer Lodge Hospital in Winnipeg, spending a further eight months in rehabilitation. Stephen’s war decorations include: 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and 1939-1945 War Medal. Stephen returned to Cartwright, MB where he and his wife raised their family. Being a member of The Royal Canadian Legion for eighty years and holding Branch President and Zone 35 Commander for MBNWO for some of those years, Stephen continued to serve. Stephen passed away on February 13, 2018 at the age of 93. LLOYD, Glen J. PEACETIME Glen was born in MacGregor, Manitoba on the winter solstice 1956. He joined the Air Cadets in Portage and earned his Flying Scholarship. As soon as the flight training was done, he left the family farm and went to Boot Camp in Cornwallis, NS and then to Borden to complete Aero Engine training. First base was CFB Southport and then a NATO posting to CFB Baden, Germany. At this time, he married an Admin type. He went back to CFB Winnipeg when he remustered to Flight Engineer and flew the Dakota into history. He then went away to CFB Edmonton in 447 Squadron flying the Chinook helicopter and retired that bird. He then went to 408 Squadron to retire the Huey helicopter. After twenty years Glen retired as well. Glen received the Canadian Forces’ Decoration and the Special Service Medal (NATO). He then bought an ultra-lite aircraft and crashed it on the first flight which put him into a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
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