127 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca LOVETT, Herbert Ray WWI Herbert was born in 1892 in Deloraine, Manitoba. He enlisted in the Canadian Army on March 1, 1916 and was posted to England in November 1916. He served in the Royal Canadian Engineers as a communications linesman. During the next few months, he took part in the heavy fighting as part of the 4th, Canadian Division, Signal Company. In early 1918, he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery. He served in England and Europe until his discharge. Herbert passed away in 1950. LOW, Donald Baird “Don” WWII Don was born in Foxwarren, Manitoba, on March 7, 1926. He joined the RCAF at the age of eighteen with the intention of becoming a pilot but was selected to train as a Wireless Gunner. He was later transferred to the Army and stationed in Toronto and Winnipeg. Upon his discharge on December 12, 1945 he returned to Foxwarren, where he courted Elaine, the love of his life. He worked as a mechanic and cabinet builder; started working for the CPR as an Assistant Agent in 1948; later becoming an Operator and Station Agent. The last sixteen years of his career included a move to Yorkton and a promotion to Mobile Supervisor, retiring in 1988 after forty years with the railway. Don was married to Elaine Thorpe in 1951 and they had two girls and two boys. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 77 and very proud to have received a seventy-year member pin. Don passed away on January 3, 2016. LUKIANCHUK, Peter “Pete” WWII Peter was born near Horod, Manitoba, on April 1, 1909. Father, Konstantine, and mother, Katrina, from Ukraine 1898, had homesteaded near Horod. Peter schooled near Horod, worked farming, then travelled with threshing crews. While threshing he met his future wife, Mabel Reid, near Oakner, Manitoba. Peter later worked in Woodfibre, BC pulp mill, then joined Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s), in Vancouver. Peter had three sisters. He and four of five brothers served in the military. Peter, with 1st Battalion, going overseas in 1941, docked in Glasgow, were greeted by HRH Princess Mary, then trained in England. On D Day, Peter climbed over machine gunned bodies from the landing craft at Juno. Surviving Normandy, Falaise, Leopold Canal, Rhineland, more, to Germany, Peter returned to marry Mabel, having sent her miniature wooden shoes from Holland. They farmed near Oakner, raising one son Robert, and were active in Legions, including both as Presidents. Peter (1981), and Mabel (1983) are both buried Hamiota, Manitoba, Cemetery.
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