189 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca MANN, Colin WWI &WWII Colin was born in Tomick, Invernesshire, Scotland on September 2, 1890. He enlisted in the Army and served overseas with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles in England in 1915 and guarded German prisoners of war in Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta with the Veterans Guard. Colin passed away on November 27, 1980. MANN, Edward Henry “Ted” WWI Ted was born on September 20, 1896, in the R.M. of Odanah, Manitoba. His parents were Walter and Anne (Ditch) Mann. He chose banking as his career and was transferred to Dauphin, Manitoba. It was from there that he enlisted. He and his brother, Alf, enlisted in World War I on February 2, 1917. Ted enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps and later transferred to the Third Field Ambulance in France. His brother, Alf, was in the 76thTrench Mortar Battery. Both boys fortunately returned in 1919. After the war, he studied pharmacy and graduated from the University of Manitoba. He lived for several years in Fort Frances, Ontario, and while there married Maisie Scott from that town. They left Fort Frances and moved to Winkler where Ted owned his own business for many years, finally retiring to Winnipeg. They raised four sons and one daughter: Keneth, Russell, Maurice, Sandy, and Marion. Ted passed away in February 1980, at the age of 83, and Maisie passed away in May 1976. MARKLE, Orin Clemens WWII Orin was born on May 23, 1920 and lived in Shoal Lake, Manitoba where his grandfather first settled in 1882 as Indian Agent for the Blackfoot Indian Reserve. Markle served with the Royal Canadian Air Force attached to the No. 1 Overseas Air Dispatch Unit as a Pilot Officer during World War II. On March 7, 1944, Pilot Officer Orin Clemens Markle died after his Beaufort aircraft failed to return to RAF Portreath from a delivery flight to Rabat-Sale, Morocco. Lost without a trace, Markle is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial in the United Kingdom and on the Shoal Lake War Memorial in Manitoba. He was the son of Mervyn Clemens Markle (former Mayor of Shoal Lake in 1911) and Lydia Isabella (Bates) Markle of Shoal Lake and the brother of Ruth Elizabeth, Vernon Bates, Mervyn Clarence, Margaret Noreen, Gerald Asquith, Claude Everett, Sherwood Ward, David Lloyd, Jack Wellington, and Roderick Terence. He was 24 years old. Markle Lake, south of Island Lake in Manitoba was named in his honour in 1973.
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