115 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca LANGLOIS, Maurice WWII Maurice was born in 1924 in Sandy Bay, Manitoba. He volunteered for active service with the Canadian Army at the age of nineteen in Toronto on October 7, 1943. He completed his basic training in Peterborough, ON and was sent overseas on a troop ship. He was assigned as a stretcher-bearer to No. 10 Field Ambulance RCAMC with No. 7 General Hospital, picking up wounded from the battlefield. In the spring of 1945, Maurice was wounded in action by shrapnel. He served in Canada, the United Kingdom and continental Europe until his discharge on August 15, 1946. Maurice passed away in 2004. LANGRELL, Edward S. “Ed” WWII Ed was born in Woodlands, Manitoba in 1923. He enlisted in the Air Force during World War II and served in Canada, England, India and Burma. Ed trained as a pilot in the Commonwealth Air Training Program from 1942 to 1944, stationed at many locations in Western Canada. In April 1944, he sailed to England, where he took advance training for much of the rest of 1944. By Christmas of that year, he was in Southeast Asia where he joined three other Canadians as the crew of a DC-3 Dakota in 436 Squadron. On January 15, 1945, the crew was posted to Imphal where they flew supplies to the British 14th Army, pushing the Japanese Army southward through Burma. 436 Squadron passed the remaining months of the war flying support to Allied forces in Burma. By September Ed was back in England; on January 15 he boarded the Queen Elizabeth in Southampton, arriving in New York four days later. He finally arrived home in Winnipeg on the coldest day of winter, in late January 1946. Ed was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion in Woodlands. He passed away in 1998. LEADBEATER, Arthur Cameron WWII Arthur was the son of Arthur and Minnie Leadbeater of Pelly, Saskatchewan. The family moved to Flin Flon, Manitoba in 1940. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1941. Arthur was killed on June 30, 1944, at age 25, when his Spitfire aircraft dived into the sea from off Wirall Peninsula, Cheshire, England, presumed oxygen failure. He is buried in the Blacon Cemetery, Chester, Cheshire, England.
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