The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 163 HENRY, Edwin A. “Ebbie” WWII Ebbie, the youngest of twins, was born in 1922 in Trewdale, Saskatchewan. He joined the Army in Regina on January 16, 1942 and was in the Royal Canadian Postal Corps in Ottawa five days later. He took his basic training at nearby Lansdowne Park and was one of 20 to be sent to British Columbia in December to set up and staff new M.P.O.s at Prince George and Terrace. Ebbie returned to Ontario on another course then remustered in August 1943 with ten others of that group to take Airborne training at Camp Shilo. He went to England in 1944 to join and train with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. He also served in Belgium and was in Ghent on VE-Day. Ebbie was awarded the France and Germany Star, the 1939-45 Star and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp. He is a Life Member with a total of sixty-four years with Legion Branches Coderre 22, Bateman 163 and Moose Jaw 59 where he now lives. Ebbie married in 1950 and had six children. HENRY, John M. WWII John, the oldest of twins, was born in the Shamrock district of Trewdale, Saskatchewan in December 1922. He joined the Canadian Navy after finishing high school and was posted to Victoria, Toronto and Halifax. After several months at the Central Victualling Depot in Halifax, he spent nine months at sea on HMCS Provider on convoy duty based out of Bermuda. He came home after V-J Day and returned to Ontario where he married in Toronto in 1946. John and Ruth had four children. After working over 30 years with Bell Telephone, John retired and he and his wife Ruth joined the trek to Florida for several winters. They eventually moved to Parry Sound, Ontario and John passed away in 2007, just four days after his 85th birthday. John was the recipient of the 1939-45 Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, the War Medal 1939-45, and he was a Legion member for a brief time before 1950. HENSHAW, Alfred John “Jack” WWII Jack was born in 1920 in Southey. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a Corporal during WWII as an air engine mechanic. A member of Southey Legion Branch 350 for fifty years, Jack was instrumental in the planning and completion of the Legion’s mural on Southey Drugs. “Canada Remembers”, a tribute to the Air Force, the Army and the Navy, was completed in 1998. Jack passed away in 2012.
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