235 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca URBANOWICH, Bill WWII Bill Urbanowich served in the army for four and a half years from 1941 to 1945. He served in England and France during World War II and arrived back in Canada in 1945 on the SS Île de France. VANDERSTEEN, Bernard Joseph Bernard enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in September 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and moved to CFS Saskatoon. He was employed on repair and maintenance of air field equipment, also trained as a fire fighter and crash rescue. From 1960 to 1964, he was at 1 Air Division headquarters in Metz, France where he was employed on maintenance and repair of air field equipment. He was promoted to Corporal in 1965 at CFB Edmonton, Alberta, where he was employed on repair and inspection of electric fork lifts and general service vehicles. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1968 in London, Ontario where he was a member of 27th Canadian Ordnance Repair Depot, employed on repairing fire and crash trucks, fuel tenders, etc. Bernard was also supervisor for electrical rewiring on the relifing of vehicles. Bernard was promoted to Warrant Officer in 1974 when he was instructing at trade school, Canadian Forces School of Aeronautical Engineering, Vehicle Branch, at CFB Borden and Kingston. He was also on duty for six months with the International Commission of Control and supervisor in Vietnam as Non-Commissioned Officer in charge of repair and maintenance of all equipment for four countries of the ICCS. He received his promotion to Master Warrant Officer in 1978 at NDHQ, Ottawa, Ontario as a member of the Land Maintainability Engineering Division (LMED) of 202 Workshop, Montreal tasked with Technical Writing Development of New Maintenance Techniques. He was also employed with No. 1 (CEU) Winnipeg in the Arctic. A major responsibility was development and writing of the installation instruction for T.O.W. Missile mounting on the armoured personnel carrier and quarter-ton jeep. From 1978 to 1980, Bernard was equipment manager on staff of the Directorate of Support Vehicle Engineering Maintenance at National Defence H.Q. From January 1981 to June 1982, he was on contract from Dew Engineering to DND as maintenance manager. Bernard served 25 years in the military and was presented the Chief of Defence Staff Commendation by Admiral Robert H. Falls for completion of the TOW Missile Installation project. He retired in December 1980 in Ottawa, Ontario.
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