LEST WE FORGET 269 NICHOLSON, John Roger WWII John was born in Dubuc, Saskatchewan, on November 11, 1924. He enlisted in the Air Force as a mechanic in 1943 and served four years in Canada. He received a certificate for first aid to the injured on December 7, 1943 and was a member of the Dubuc Branch 77 of The Royal Canadian Legion. He passed away on September 10, 2004. NOPPA, Vianna “Vaino” WWI Vaino was born on May 1, 1886, in Borolina, Finland to Antti August Noppa and Maria Vilhelmiina Johansdotter Anderson. He immigrated to Canada (about 1906) and came to the New Finland district. He enlisted in Whitewood on April 4, 1916 with the 217th Overseas Battalion. They sailed from Halifax aboard the Olympic on June 2, 1917. At Bramshott, Vaino was assigned to the 19th Reserve and was sent to France on October 4, 1917 with the Canadian Forestry Corps (CFC). Vaino, no doubt, had problems with the English language, as in June 1918, he was put on detention and hospitalized at Rouen Hospital for neurasthenia or shell shock. He spent time at the Sunningdale base depot for the CFC and later as sent to Kinmel Park Disbursement area awaiting return to Canada. He returned to Canada on March 13, 1919 aboard the Cretic. He was discharged in Regina on March 28, 1919. His forms stated his plan was to live in Regina with his mother (which seems incorrect). He went to the Port Arthur, Ontario area where his brother (who had changed his surname to Anderson) was living with his family in the Thunder Bay area. Vaino was working at Hardwick Lake Bush Camp in the 1920s and 1930s clearing trees and bush. There was quite a settlement of Finish families at the camp employed as bush workers. Vaino, spelled “Waino” on his gravestone, died of tuberculosis in his right lung at Fort William, Ontario on August 11, 1946 at the age of 58.
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