77 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca HALL, John R. “Jack” WWII John joined the Army Service Corps from Fisher Branch in September 1941. He later transferred to the Ordnance Corps and in April 1942 he was posted overseas. John served in Italy in 1944. He also served in Belgium, Northwest Europe and was in Holland in 1946. He was repatriated in 1946 and discharged in March 1946. John rejoined the army in 1947 and spent 1953 to 1954 on a course in Monterey, California. He was in the army; this time until 1960. After John’s army career he spent several years teaching school. He lived near Barry’s Bay, Ontario on a forty acre hobby farm. He said it was the nearest thing he could find to living in Fisherton where he was raised. HALLET, Lawrence WWII Private Lawrence Hallet enlisted in 1940 in the Winnipeg Grenadiers. He trained with his regiment at Minto Armouries and Fort Osborne Barracks in Winnipeg. He went to Bermuda on the Lady Drake in May 1940 and Jamaica in September 1940, returning to Canada in October 1941. The Winnipeg Grenadiers were shipped to Hong Kong at the end of October 1941. Lawrence was taken prisoner in December 1941 and died a Prisoner of War in December 1942, as a result of contracting yellow jaundice. Roy Stodgell, a comrade and friend from the Fisherton area, was there at the time of Lawrence’s burial in Hong Kong. HALLET, Ralph WWII Ralph enlisted in Fort Osborne Barracks in Winnipeg on March 10, 1943. He took basic training at Fort Garry, advance training at Camp Shilo, Manitoba and Debert, Nova Scotia. In March 1944 he embarked in Halifax on the Ile-de-France for overseas and landed in Scotland. He took further training in various places in England. On June 10, 1944 he went to France as reinforcement troops for the Highland Light Infantry, Third Division, 9th Brigade. He saw action in France, Belgium, Germany and Holland. He was wounded on October 19, 1944 in Holland and was hospitalized for about two weeks.While he was in Germany, he advanced from Private to Lance Corporal on January 12, 1944. He was later promoted to Corporal on February 7, 1945 in Germany and remained there until August 1945. He returned to Canada on the ship Louis Pasteur. Ralph travelled back to Fort Osborne Barracks where he was discharged on October 4, 1945. After service, he resided in Fisher Branch with his wife Mary.
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