The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 259 JONES, Earl Frederick WWII Earl and his twin brother Irvin were born on August 18, 1919 and grew up on a homestead east of Rabbit Lake in Verndale Saskatchewan. He joined the Royal Canadian Artillery on April 17, 1941 in Regina and went overseas on August 8, 1942. In England, he served with the Black Watch Regiment and received commando training in Scotland, becoming a Bren gunner. Earl was a machine gunner in Holland and Germany from October 8, 1944 to February 26, 1945. The Black Watch advanced at dawn on February 26, 1945 during operation Blockbuster and there was a shell hole just ahead. Earl told his young gun loader, “We will jump in that shell hole and set up there because lightning never strikes twice in the same place.” In 1945, Earl was shot in the face and killed by a sniper’s bullet near Calcar, Germany. His name was published in the London Gazette and Canada Gazette for Mentions in Dispatches in recognition of gallant and distinguished service. He was temporarily buried in Germany and later moved to Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in Holland. JONES, Irvin Roy WWII Irvin and his twin brother Earl were born on August 18, 1919 and grew up on a homestead east of Rabbit Lake in Verndale Saskatchewan, which is still owned by the Jones family. He joined the Royal Canadian Artillery on April 17, 1941 in Regina and trained as a gunner on the 17-pound artillery piece. On his way overseas, he was transferred to Debert, Nova Scotia where he contracted rheumatic fever two weeks before he was to go overseas. He spent three months in a convalescent hospital. However, his heart had sustained damage to a valve and Irvin was subsequently discharged from the 15th Field Regiment in October or November 1942. He was told by military doctors that likely he would only live into his 50s. His first heart attack occurred when he was 56 and he died of his third heart attack at age 72. Irvin was a member of Rabbit Lake Legion Branch 175 before he passed away in 1992. JONES, Stanley J. “Stan” WWII Stan was born in Keepel, Saskatchewan on June 18, 1922. He enlisted in the Army on November 6, 1942 and served with the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards in the United Kingdom, Italy and Northwest Europe. Sergeant Jones left the service on May 5, 1946. Stan married and has been a member of Nutana Legion Branch 362.
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