The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 237 KELLINGTON, Kenneth Clifton “Ken” WWII Ken was born to Albert and Mary Ellen (Cousins) Kellington on February 20, 1919 in Cottam, ON. He enlisted as Aircraftman on October 2, 1941 in the Royal Canadian Air Force in Windsor, ON. He completed basic training in Toronto, ON and went on to serve in Edmonton, AB; Suffield and Calgary, AB; and Regina, SK. He went overseas to England in September 1944 and to Germany in March 1945 before returning to Lachine, QC where he was released on June 3, 1946. He and his wife, Bess Marchant, went to Mantario, SK where from 1947 to 1983, they owned and operated a general store and he was the postmaster. They retired to Eatonia, SK in 1983. Ken passed away on September 3, 2010. He was a Lifetime Legionnaire. KELLINGTON, Larry James PEACETIME Larry was born to Emerson Bristol and Ethel Lenora (Knutson) Kellington in Naicam, SK on March 15, 1939. At age seventeen, he enlisted as a Private with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry on April 16, 1956 in Vancouver, BC. He completed basic training in Edmonton, AB and was then posted to the regiment’s Second Battalion in Calgary and Edmonton. While with 2 PPCLI, he earned his parachute wings on jump course 316 in August 1957 at the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre in Rivers, MB. He went on to serve in the intelligence office of the First Canadian Infantry Brigade Group HQ in Calgary and took his voluntary release there on July 25, 1965. Larry is a member of RCL Esquimalt Branch 172. KELLINGTON, Lloyd George WWII Lloyd was born to James Vines and Anna Laura (McLaughlin) Kellington on November 11, 1916 in Naicam, SK. When WWII broke out, he was working in Sudbury, ON where he married Vera Fox on April 29, 1940. On August 19 that same year, he enlisted as a Trooper in the Canadian Army (Active) and was posted to Britain. With his unit, the 28th Armoured Regiment (the British Columbia Regiment), Lloyd went on the D-Day invasion where he was subsequently declared missing in action and presumed dead on August 9, 1944. He is commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial in Calvados, France and the Ontario geo-memorial, Kellington Lake, near Sudbury, perpetuates Lloyd’s sacrifice.
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