The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 385 THOM, Norman PEACETIME Norman was born in Quill Lake, Saskatchewan. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy and served as a Warrant Officer in Japan, Singapore, Burma, Thailand, Ceylon, Alaska, and Pearl Harbour on HMCS Margaree, Oriole, Cape Breton, Provider, Qu’Appelle, and Gatineau. Norman has been married. THOMPSON, Gilbert WWII Gilbert was born in Belfast, Ireland in September 1905. His family came to Canada in 1913 and they settled in Regina, Saskatchewan. At age 14, he left school and went to work as a typesetter for the Regina Leader-Post and later married Mima Elva Moore on November 9, 1935. His son, Robert Gilbert, was born in 1939. When WWII broke out, Gilbert joined the Regina Rifles in 1940 and he served in England and France. On June 6, 1944, Gilbert was one of the many men who lost their lives on Juno Beach and he is buried in the Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Réviers, France. THOMPSON, John Allen WWII John was born in Regina on May 1, 1914, one of ten children in the family of Winnifred and William Thompson, a printer for the Regina Leader-Post. After following his father into the trade, John married Doris Urwin form Moose Jaw and they had a daughter in 1941. John joined the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and was part of the D-Day invasion which he survived. On June 8, 1944, he was one of 40 soldiers captured by the 12th German Panzer Division; thirty-five of them were executed in a field and five escaped to tell the story. John is buried near his brother Gilbert at Bény-sur-Mer in France. “Conduct Unbecoming” by Howard Margolian, a Canadian historian, gives the horrendous details. A lake in northern Saskatchewan bears John’s name.
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