LEST WE FORGET 211 JOHNSTONE, Clifford WWII Clifford was born on May 11, 1914, in Mont Nebo, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939 and was called for duty in 1940. He started his training in Saskatoon, SK and then was transferred to the Cornwallis Naval Base in Digby, NS. He served on the high seas as a motor mechanic in the engine rooms of the ships he was on until his discharge in 1945. He was awarded the Atlantic Star, the 1939-1945 Star, the War Medal 1939-1945, and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. Clifford passed away on January 1, 2001 in Shellbrook, SK. JONES, Frederick Nathan WWI Frederick was born in Mobes River, New Brunswick, on October 24, 1897. He joined the Army on May 19, 1917, serving in France until his discharge on June 6, 1919. He moved to Saskatchewan in 1925 and took a homestead in the RM of Canwood; and lived there until 1964, when he had a stroke and spent time in a nursing home in Melfort, SK, and then in the Lions Nursing Home in Prince Albert, SK. He passed away at Victoria Union Hospital in 1974 and is buried in the Legion Plot in Canwood. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion for ten years. JONES, Clarence Noble WWI Clarence was born near London, Ontario, and came west with his family and joined the Army at Lethbridge as Artillery Gunner with 31st Battalion and went overseas to England in 1916 as a horse driver, moving guns, high explosives and shrapnel in France. He was in France and Belgium in 1917, taking part in the Battles of Ypres, Passchendaele, Hill 70 and Vimy Ridge. He arrived in 1919 at Tisdale and received land at Armley, where he farmed. He married Janet Thompson and they raised a family of three children. Clarence passed away on June 17, 1982.
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