77 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca CHEVALIER, Robert WWI Robert was born in Everbeka, Belgium, in 1895. He joined the 222nd Battalion on February 18, 1916, taking his training at Camp Hughes for six months and then shipped to Seaforth, England, where he took more training and travelled on the ship S.S. Olympic, where he went with the 2nd Battalion. He was discharged on April 10, 1919. When the war was over, soldiers were anxious to return home but there were not enough ships and riots soon broke out. Robert witnessed the Kenmel riots and came back home at a later date as he stayed behind to clean up the battlefields. Robert received the Victory Medal, the British War Medal, and the War Service Badge Class “A”. CHEVREFILS, Donat H. SPECIAL AREA DUTY Donat was born in Pine Falls, Manitoba, on March 23, 1932. He enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1954 and was later stationed in Wainwright, Alberta, with the Lord Strathcona Horse. In January 1957, Donat volunteered to serve with the 1956 Canadian Peace Squadron, part of the United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt. On November 29, 1957, his jeep struck a landmine and was completely destroyed. The driver was killed, a second soldier escaped unharmed, and Donat received a severe spinal injury which left him a paraplegic for the remainder of his life. He remained some time in hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, before being repatriated to the Deer Lodge Hospital in Winnipeg, and returned home to St. Georges, Manitoba, in 1958. Donat passed away on October 14, 1981. CHISHOLM, Alexander John WWII Private Alexander Chisholm was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia on June 22, 1900. He enlisted in Winnipeg, Manitoba in January 1940 and served with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry during World War II. His service number was H-16891. He was discharged in Winnipeg, Manitoba in July 1945. Alexander and his wife Elizabeth had one daughter also named Elizabeth.
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