LEST WE FORGET 243 MOSURE, George Milton WWII George was born in Star City, Saskatchewan on January 5, 1919. He moved to the White Fox, SK area in 1919 and enlisted in the Army in 1942, serving in Holland, Italy, France and Germany, and was discharged on March 15, 1946. He married Selma Weber in 1939, and after the war they made a home in Pinehurst, SK and in 1977 they moved to Keg River, Alberta. George received the Italy Star, the France and Germany Star, and the 1939-1945 Star. George passed away on October 15, 2001. MULLIN, Charles Henry WWI For Charles Henry Mullin, a farmer from the Conquest area, wartime was an especially unpleasant experience. He was held as a prisoner of war for 1,269 days. Born in Nippissing, Ontario on February 25, 1895, to Michael and Dora Greenwood (Sutcliffe) Mullin, he enlisted at Valcartier at the age of nineteen on September 23, 1914. Charles sailed on the SS Olympia from Halifax to England. He was sent to France in February of 1915. Fighting with the Second Army Corps, he was engaged in the Second Battle of Ypres when, for the first time in modern warfare, the enemy used poisonous chlorine gas. During the course of the battle, approximately 1,400 Canadian soldiers were taken prisoner in a single day. Charles Henry Mullin, after four months service at the front lines, was one of them. He was reported missing on May 10 and his capture was confirmed a day later. Carrying a painful piece of shrapnel in his right knee, he was shuttled to a number of prisoner of war camps, including Padenborn, Munster and Minden—none of which was known for humane treatment of captives. On October 30, 1918, he was finally repatriated, and a Dutch doctor removed the shrapnel. Recovery in the Military Hospital at Ripon was followed by a return journey back to Canada and official discharge from the Army on April 7, 1919. Charles Henry Mullin was barely 24 years of age. His discharge papers indicated his intention to return to Outlook. He married Elizabeth Jane Adams on December 30, 1919. They had two sons, Michael Douglas and Gerald T., and a daughter, Peggy. The couple moved to Abbotsford, British Columbia in 1934 where Charles farmed and worked for many years as a commercial truck driver. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion. He died suddenly at home on September 21, 1971. He is buried at the Hazelwood Cemetery in Abbotsford, BC.
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