LEST WE FORGET 111 EARL, Kenneth WWII Kenneth was born in North Portal, Saskatchewan, in 1922. He joined the Canadian Army on March 8, 1941 at age 19 and served with the 14th Battery 4th Canadian Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery and served in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He was in Germany on VE Day and was discharged in December 1945. Kenneth passed away in 1984 in Cochrane, Alberta. EATON, Homer WWI Homer Eaton was born on January 1, 1889, in Summitt, Mississippi to Reuben and Mattie (Sykes) Eaton. He was a 25-year-old carpenter living in Outlook when he enlisted with the 128th Overseas Battalion on December 7, 1915. He arrived in Canada in 1911 and became a naturalized citizen in 1915, just in time to enlist. Once overseas, he saw action with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles beginning on November 28, 1916. He was hospitalized for gas poisoning on June 8, 1917, but recovered in hospital. Following the Armistice, he returned to Canada. He married Laura Violet Kenny Jones on July 26, 1923; they lived in the Tisdale area where sons Llewelyn Edwin (served in WWII and was killed in action at Pessaro, Italy September 4, 1944) and Gerald Homer were born. Homer moved to the USA. The 1950 USA Census shows that Homer Eaton had married Elsie Gertrude Roberts on June 2, 1934, and was living in Leakesville, Mississippi. Homer Eaton passed on January 11, 1965, at the age of 76, after a lengthy illness in Leakesville Hospital. EARL, Lawrence WWII Lawrence was born in North Portal, Saskatchewan, in 1920. He joined the Canadian Army on March 8, 1941, at age 22. He served with the Royal Artillery, 4th Canadian Field Regiment, and with the 21st Army Corps Canadian Section under General Montgomery in England, France, Belgium and Germany and was discharged on January 10, 1945. He was a customs officer at North Portal after the war and then transferred to Winnipeg as a customs appraiser. Lawrence passed away in 1994 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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