157 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca KLIPPENSTEIN, William J. PEACETIME William was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1925. He joined the 2nd Regiment RCHA and served in Canada. He passed away in 1960 and had been a member of Fort Garry Branch 90 of The Royal Canadian Legion for fifteen years. LANGRELL, Edward Stanley “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. LAW, Douglas D. WWII & PEACETIME Douglas was born in Morden, Manitoba, in 1922. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941, training as a pilot in Saskatoon and Dauphin. In 1943, he went to serve in England and Ireland as Pilot Officer and Flying Officer with the 423 Squadron, flying Sunderland flying boats on convoy escort and anti-submarine patrols along the Norway coast. He was selected to ferry new Sunderlands to the east area of conflict and delivered them to India and Africa. After the European war ended, he returned for a tour of duty in the Middle East. Douglas received his discharge in September 1945 and rejoined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1955 as a radar fighter controller. In 1959, while serving in Foymount, Ontario, he won the Tyndall trophy for best score as a radar controller at the Air Defence Command rocket meet in Cold Lake, Alberta. Douglas retired in 1969 with the rank of Captain and passed away in 1990. He had been a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Morden Branch 11 for 45 years.
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