85 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca HONEY, Edward Lloyd WWII Edward was born in Russell, Manitoba, in 1922. He joined the Canadian Army and achieved the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He married Virginia Caruso in 1943 and was discharged as an essential farm worker due to his father’s health. Following his father’s death in 1945, Edward took employment as manager of the Portage la Prairie Mental Hospital Farm. In 1951, he took position with the Equity Cooperative of Wisconsin, USA, buying and selling cattle. He had three daughters and two sons. Edward passed away in 2001 in the USA. HORNER, Thomas Leslie “Les” WWII Les was born in 1914 in Miniota, Manitoba and he worked in several lumber yards in southern Manitoba before the war. He served with the Royal Canadian Air Force from June 25, 1942 until March 1, 1946, when he was honourably released and transferred to the Reserve General Section Class “E”. He was posted to Trenton, ON and Brandon, MB as Aircraftman 2 and to Calgary, AB, Gander and Flatrock, NL, and Plymouth, MB as Leading Aircraftman. He received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, the War Medal 1939-1945, and the Defence Medal. In 1950, Les married Lillian Ellerington and they had two daughters. He worked for the Miniota Co-op, sold life insurance and was salesman for Baker Manufacturing of Winnipeg. He lived in Miniota and was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Miniota Branch 66 for 35 years before he died in 1991. HOUSTON, James Simpson Anderson “Jim” WWII Jim was born in Winnipeg on April 20, 1913. All four brothers and one of two sisters, Jean (Houston) Daniel, served and returned from World War II. Jim was raised in St. Francis, Manitoba. He married Leah Breland in his hometown before enlisting on September 30, 1939 in Winnipeg with the Winnipeg Rifles. They had a son and a daughter, twins, before Jim was deployed to Jamaica in 1940, then Hong Kong in November 1941. With surrender, Christmas Day, 1941, Jim was POW mines and shipyards for four years. He suffered from disease, including beriberi, and injuries, torture and beatings, like crow bar across back for putting extra rice in rations. With liberation, Jim returned to Canada. Rehabilitated, he was discharged in June 1946. Jim received three medals: Volunteer, War, and Defence, and two stars, 1939-1945 WWII, and Pacific. Two more sons were born. Jim, assisted by VLA, set up a Market Garden in St. Francis. Retiring in 1974, predeceased in 1986, he remarried, later suffered a stroke, and then passed away in 2001.
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