33 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca CHABOYER, Alex WWI Alex was born in St. Laurent on December 20, 1895. He enlisted in the Army in The Pas in June 1916. He served in World War I in France and was discharged in Winnipeg in August 1919. Alex received a Service Medal and Victory Medal. He and his wife had seven children: Ray, Irene, Madeline, Henry, Hans, Warren and Myrtle. CHAMBERS, Thomas R. WWII Thomas was born in Boissevain, Manitoba, in 1919. He joined the Royal Canadian Army Service Corp/Medical Corps serving in Canada, England, France, Germany and Holland. Thomas was a member of the Medical Corps involved in removing Jewish inmates from Dachau Concentration Camp at the end of World War II. He had been a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Boissevain Branch 10 for 25 years before he passed away in 1990. CHAMPAGNE, Norman WWII Norman enlisted in the Royal Canadian Medium Artillery in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 11, 1941. He took his basic training in Vernon, British Columbia, then advance training in Brandon, Manitoba. Norman went overseas to England on the Monarch of Bermuda in October 1941. He spent the next four years going through Sicily and Italy, France, Belgium and Holland, then volunteered to go to the Pacific Front. He returned home on the “Ile de France” in October 1945 but did not go to the Pacific.
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