LEST WE FORGET 239 JONES, Charles Evans WWII Cpl. Charles Jones served with the No. 8 Canadian General Hospital, the Royal Army Medical Corps. He crossed the ocean on the ship “Empress of Canada” under the CO Colonel H. Gordon Young. His postings included Crowthorne, England as orderly at Pinewood Hospital; Arromanches, Normandy, Bayeux, Couronne, Neufchatel and Roven, France; Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium and Hertogenbosch, Holland. After the war, he was posted at Lemgo, Germany and Nijmegen, Holland as a clerk-typist. JONES, John Percy WWII Private John Percy Jones enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1939 at a very young age. He was posted in Italy during World War II. This picture of John was taken in 1942. JONES, Francis Elmer “Frank” WWII One of ten children of Harry and Alvilde (Neilsen), Frank was born in Bounty in November 1921. He was raised on the family farm near Ardath, the village where he attended school. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force on June 19, 1941, and served in Gander, Newfoundland throughout the war repairing and maintaining aircraft. After his discharge, he returned to Saskatoon where he was employed in the Army and Navy Department Store and at the famous Bessborough Hotel in the engineering department. He married Florence Knapik from Broderick, Saskatchewan, in October 1967. In his later years, Frank suffered a debilitating stroke and was cared for in the Saskatoon Veterans Home. He died at the Home on April 15, 1997. He is buried in St. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Broderick, Saskatchewan.
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