The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 207 JOHNS, Harold Gordon WWII Harold was born in Sioux City, Iowa, USA, in 1924. He joined the Air Force and served in Canada and England. Gordon was a naturalized Canadian and so proud of it. He received the 1939-45 Star, the Atlantic Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, the 1939-45 War Medal, the Canadian Forces Decoration and Clasp and the Long Service Medal. Harold passed away in 1979. JOHNSON, Byron WWII Byron enlisted on June 27, 1941 and trained as aircrew in Canada and proceeded to the UK and flew his first tour of operation with mixed Royal Canadian Air Force - RAF Crew in England and North Africa as a tail gunner. He returned to England as an instructor at RAF gunnery school and then returned to Canada as his tour expired in January 1944. He went back to England to start his second tour in Lancaster as mid upper gunner with an all Canadian crew. He flew back to Canada in the Spring of 1945 to start training on Lincoln Bombers for the far east service. He was discharged on September 8, 1945. Byron died suddenly of cancer on December 10, 1990. He received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, the Defence Medal, the Italy Star, the 1939-45 Star, the France/Germany Star, the Aircraft Europe Star, the 1939-45 War Medal and the Canadian Forces Decoration. JOHNSON, O. M. Mayo WWII Mayo was born in 1920. He enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force (LAC) in 1940 and served with the #7 Bombing and German School in Manitoba and was discharged in 1945. After the war, Mayo worked as a mechanic, married Ruth and they raised two children. He received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and the 1939-45 War Medal. He passed away in 1964. JOHNSON, Donovan WWII Donovan was born on March 11, 1918. He joined the Army and landed in France in August 1944, where he hauled a light anti-aircraft gun and trailer of ammunition for the 8th Canadian Light Anti Aircraft 4th Division for a short time and then transferred to the 15th Canadian Field Regiment hauling more ammunition in France, Belgium and Holland until the end of the war. After the war, the Czechoslovakian government borrowed some of the army trucks and Donovan drove the first aid truck for the convoy of trucks through Cologne, Frankfurt, Neinberg, into Plzen, Czechoslovakia. Donovan went back to farming when he returned home. He received the 1939-45 Star, the France/Germany Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, and the 1939-45 Defence Medal. Donovan passed away in Russell, Manitoba, on June 10, 1997, and was a member of the Russell Branch of The Royal Canadian Legion.
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