LEST WE FORGET 77 CAMERON, Dugald Jonathan WWII Dugald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on August 28, 1913. He joined the RCOC and served in Canada, being stationed in Newfoundland and Labrador as a mechanic. He had a medical discharge after a motorcycle accident in which he smashed his leg. He married Evelyn Burrows in 1936 and they had two children: Douglas in 1938, and Jean in 1949. When he returned from the war, he started a mechanical repair shop in Montreal and lived there until 1948 when he moved the family to Regina where he worked as a mechanic for Regina White Trucks. Dugald passed away on September 14, 1980. CAMPBELL, Jack WWII Jack was born in 1913 in the Harris District. He married Nellie Zalaski in 1941 and enlisted in the RCA in 1942 and went overseas and was discharged in 1946. He worked in Saskatoon as a mechanic for four years. Jack took up land in the Ravenhurst District, and in 1963 they sold the lease and moved to Arborfield, where their six children attended school. Jack and Nellie left Arborfield for Alberta in 1971. Both are now deceased and had belonged to the Arborfield Legion and Ladies Auxiliary. CAMERON, Richard Lee WWII Richard was born in Munich, North Dakota, USA, in 1925, son of Duncan and Mary, and came to Canada in 1927 to settle in Tompkins in 1937. He went overseas at a young age to join the Army and fight for his country but was captured as a prisoner of war and liberated in 1944. After returning home, he married and raised two children. The family lived in Alberta and after a long hard battle with cancer, he passed away on June 11, 2000, and his ashes were interred in the Grande Prairie Cemetery. Richard’s name is on the Honour Role at The Royal Canadian Legion Tompkins Branch 140.
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