LEST WE FORGET 333 WALL, John WWII John was one of twelve children born to Joseph and Florence Wall. He was born in Shawville, Quebec, in 1909. He joined the Army and served in England and Continental Europe in World War II. He married in England and had one son. He and his wife later divorced, and John returned to Canada. He married Catherine Baines of Saskatoon, who had one daughter. John passed away in 1978 at age 69. WALSH, Jeffrey Scott AFGHANISTAN Master Corporal Jeffrey Walsh was killed in an incident that occurred on a major highway twenty kilometres west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, the southern Afghan province capital where the Canadian Forces were based. MCpl Walsh had been in Afghanistan for only six days, and he was on a familiarization operation when he was shot. He was based in Shilo, Manitoba just before he was shipped out for Afghanistan and was a member of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, a regiment that has lost several other soldiers in the Afghan counterinsurgency. MCpl Walsh was called a “solid, well-respected soldier and leader” who had a promising career in the army. He received a Mention in Dispatches citation awarded on June 26, 2008, Sacrifice Medal (posthumous) and Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal. He was the son of Benjamin Morris and Margie Walsh of Regina, Saskatchewan. WALL, John R. WWI John was born in 1896. He joined the Oxford Battalion Light Infantry on September 1, 1914, and served in France, Belgium and Germany. He was discharged on May 19, 1919.
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