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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-09-16, Page 7{ THURSDAY, SEPT, 16th, 1943 THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCHNOW, QN ;pIRIO WITH THE TROOPS Eldon Buckingham; son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 'Buckingham •. of Ashfield, has been posted in the •R.C.A.F.;from Edmonton td Mon- treal 'where he: will take a course at 'McGill University, Arrived . Overseas'.. Mr. andl/Irs• art Cranston re- ceived word this wgk of the safe -arrival •.overseas ` of their, son, Ronald Cranston. Arrived Overseas Mrs. Simon Donaldson, R. R.,. Holyrood, received a cable last week announcing the' arrival overseas of her son, Gnr, George A. Carter. LAC. Stuart Collyer,' who re- cently completed a course at the University of -Saskatchewan . in Saskatoon ,has been posted to .a bombing and gunnery school at Dafoe, . Sask. John MacKenzie of the . R. C. at 'I.T.S., : Torontd, and Frank MacKenzie :of the R.C.A.F. at Centralia 'spent the weekend - with ' their mother, Mrs. Wm. MacKenzie. Russell `Buster" Whitby in a 'Y , letter home says he recently met John Dahmer, Clair Johnston and Bob: MacKenzie. , "Buster" was married recently . and , he . said the. church wedding -was quite an "ordeal'' and made him 'a '.bit shaky.- Plenty haky. Plenty Hot . , Bill Stimson, Jr., who is serv- ingwith the Canadian Infantry in Sicily says it is plenty hot and the day he wrote, on August 2nd the temperature was 130 degrees inthe shade. In that let- ter;Bill enclosed as a souvenir a Cinq (5) Franc note of the, Banque Del'Algerie.` We. publish -later letter from hill 'elsewhere - in this . issue. • SAW ALEX aMacKENZIE TAKE OFF ON HIS LAST FLIGHT. LAC.' Harold Greer, in an air letter, to his parents, told them that he saw -WO. Alex MacKen- zie; D.F.M., take off on the flight from ^ which his plane failed to return. Harold is attached Tto the same squadron ' and went to ,school with Alex. • His letter read: "It's (date omitted) and a very dismal day it has been. I feel rather low - tonight because the the . first thing I� . learned this was that the planee in, 'which Alex 'MacKenzie was nav- gator was lost over - last night. No word has been receiv- ed all day and I guess they are gone. I feel it, as the loss of. 'a good friend as we went to school together; played hockey and ball on .the same teams,. He wasoften in the radio room, shop here look- ing for me. I was on "duty last night and saw him ,,take off. It was his 47th trip over enemy' territory on bombing raids. , •In r,,,,three more trips he would have Completed ,: his tour and would have been sent back to Canada. It really is sad,. especially for his" people. He was one of the 'best navigators on the station and was well liked. I hope he had time to bail out and is safe. in Germany.' Somehow I feel he. is cafe, : as a lot ofthe crews get, out of the ci.ppled planes". • (Publisher's° Note) There is some confliction as to the num- ber of raids' Alex was on. Prev- w� ioua inforititt'tced tFrr� ber at close to sixty. • Lieut. Harold Thompson of Petawawa spent the week -end .• at his home here. , Recent enlistments reported at London included A. J. McGuire, R. 6 Lucknow, Fus. Dave Jewitt has been transferred from Niagara -on -the - Lake to Sussex, New Brunswick.: Flight Sergeant Gordon. Camp- bell of Amberley, who ,has been°' at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, has been posted to Dafbe, Sask. 'Ross MacDonald of . the R. C. A. ' F. 'has been , posted from Truro, Quebec to Belleville. Ross' is completing a t(vo weeks' fur- lough which he and Mrs. Mac- Donald have been spending with her parents, Mr, and . Mrs. A. P. Stewart: ........_ A True Fish Story • Jack McCall.who is stationed .at Sydney; N. S. with an R.C.A. Battery, tells a true fish story in his latest letter home. He re-' cently saw a truck loaded with five fish. They were a ' sPecies of s*ordfi, and.., One of them which he saw weighed, tipped the scales at 240: pounds, ininus head and • tail. Jack' says he's going fishing , some of these days and will send his catch home on a flat car. Enlists In R. C. A. F. Ei is ' Cox. of Galt has 'enlisted in the ' R.C.A.F. as an- .air crew recruit and reported for duty at Manning Pool, Toronto; last Wed= nesday. Mrs. Cox and ,Jimmy have : returned to her : home at Rothsay: Mr. and Mrs. Cox left here early in the spring' for Galt. Eric had .previously been employ- ed at I the Maple Leaf Aircraft plant, and moved to Galt to ac- cept a similar position. Eric says he'd sure like to hear from any- one': in Lucknow.: Hisaddress is R276112, AC2. Cox, Eric, No. ' 1 "M'. Depot, Toronto. Promoted While Prisoner Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Welwood, of Whitechurch, have been • in- formed that their , son, 'Norman, has been promoted to Warrant. Officer, effective last -December. He had previously been advanc- ed from Sergeant . to ,Flight Ser- geant., WO. Welwood was shot down over Germany on Novem- ber 9th. Shortly before Christ - mai he . was reported tobe a prisoner of war:. His parents hear from him regularly and he • is loud inhis praise of the Red Cross parcels which. are so much looked for to supplement their prison camp 'diet,, • ' ' ` . WILL INTERVIEW PROSPECTIVE RECRUITS ITS Lieut. J. C. MacDonald, who is in charge of the Mobile • Re- cruiting Unit which calls here each Tuesday, . informs us .. that Lieut. Christine. •Boyd of the Canadian Women's. Army Corps will be in ° Goderich and Kin- cardine next Monday, September 20th, 'and will be glad to meet prospective recruits . or anyone interested in C.W.A.C. activities. Lieut. 'Boyd will be at the Bed- ford Motel in Goderich from 11 a.m'. to 5 p.m.,*and at Kincardine Town Hall from:, 7 'p.m. to 10 PAL. ."They Never Give A Sucker A Break" There's a "gimmick" in every gambling game . from bridge, dice and the horses, to .bingo, and now . ; startinein The Amer- ican Weekly with this Sunday's (September 19) issue of The De- troit Sunday Times, Mickey Mc- Dougall, the. card detective who knows them all, exposes crooked gainbling ,shows. how the: crooks .take_ inane -.fro t4 t.^ ttr Get Sun • ay's Detroit Times. IE"AGE SEVEN HIGH PRAISE FC R MONTGOMERY The v following letter, dated Sicily August 22nd, was received on 'Saturday by Mrs. Wm. Stim- son from her son Bill: Well I've . decided ',it `is about time 'I Was writing you again as it is some time since I last' wrote. It is so hot here that I never seem to have energy enough to want to ,do anything but sleep.. To -day is Sunday and I've been busy all morning doing Amy wash- ing andcatching•�.up with my mending, so •I guess I'm . all set for another week. We are not . doing much . just now, kind of 'taking It easy. We get up at 4.30 and have break- fast. and we train from 6 till 10 and then we ar off till 5 in the afternoon so we don't • do much in the hottest part of the day; Ourbrigade had a visit from General Montgomery a • couple of days ago andheAold, us what. thought of us. He has great 'praise for the Canadians and said he would like to have :some more of them. He is . a • great man for the soldiers and ' really knows. his business and when- .he comes, and tells the boys what he does and what he intends to do, it seems to make them more con- fident ;in him. He is 55 years old and he isn't one of these high hat fellows that go for a lot of ceremony, if there Were -more like him in the Canadian army it would be a lot ° better than it is j x Where is that, prime minister, of ours, Mr. King? We have had congratulations sent .to us by The King and ° -President Roosevelt when the, job . was finished here but we haven't heard a thing from Mckenzie King. Maybe he doesn't know that there are Can- adians in Sicily. But he will like- ly hear plentywhenthe war is over and we go home' again which won't be very long I don't think. I see in the paper that they are betting even money in Lon- -don- 'that' it'will-be over vthis '°-year- so that sounds' pretty good. I was over to an American airport last night and had a look at their fighters. It was real in- teresting as it was the first time I was ever in one and they ex- plained how they co-operate with the Army when they have •to bomb just in front of them. The only trouble was that we went too fast and sometimes the artil- lery- and planes were shelling their 'own men and didn't know it. There is a great respect for each .other ,between the infantry and the artillery. The artillery sure did a good job here and I heard One fellow say that every shell they fired ,they'd pray that it wouldn't fall short because they were shelling so close in front of the infantry. The Ger- mans wanted to know if ., we had automatic ' artillery, because it was" coming so fast. I haven't heard from Don for a long time, but 'he Isn't In Sicily so he is, likely still in England. The lucky guy. It would sure be good :to be back• in England a- gain and be away from these flies and ants and have a few pints of beer. • This is .,a great -country to save - money in as there is nothing to buy and if your want some grapes. or figs or any kind of fruit you just go out'and pick it. Some of the . white . grapes here are nearly as big as plums and are nice and sweet. T haven't drawn any mon- ey since before I. went to Africa which is about six weeks ago and I still have ay pound, -two old town lust the carne • as 'WE ARE PAYING,. 31/2%_ 0-N FIVE .YEAR • GUARANTEE p, TRUST CERTIFICATES ISSUED IN. ANY A ,Ivl_.O . U, , N T p . An ' ;ideal authorized investment fey Individuals, compvjiies, ceme- tery boards, executors and other • trustees. 7`1111. STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION • 372' RATIN. -TORONTO ACKNOWLEDGE LEGION SMOKES `. About three months ago The Legion sent their periodic ship- ment of cigarettes. overseas, . in the amount of $69.00. .Acknow- ledgements appear to be pretty well 'in by .now and have been. received from 36 _of the' boys. They were received from Gor- don McGuire, A. R. Philips, J. R. Orr, , Jim .Scott, J. H.. Hackett, Donald Finlayson, D. A. Stimson, Jim Burns, George Beaton, ' Hari old Stewart, Alex Purves, Jas. E. Phillips, Jack Simkins, Wm. Burgess, Phillip McMillan,...Leon- ord McLeod, Walter Olsen, Ay1-. mer Aitchison, Lorne' Snell, Roy" Finlayson, W. G, Horne, Harry Middleton, R. F. Button, . W. W. Harvey, Dave Milne, Geo. Web- ster, • Harold Purves, Edward Burt, .Ronald 'Henderson,. J. H. Hamilton, R. C. "Buster" Whitby, Elliott' Webster, R. A. Thompson,, Jack MacDonald, \ Jack England. Acknowledgement of . a carton sent to Lloyd Henderson in New- foundland was received from the. chaplain at C.A.P.O. No., 4. Lloyd in the meantime had been posted back to Canada, arid -at -the-Cig- arettes the cig-arettes could not be suit to him, the chaplain said they had taken the liberty to divide them among the hospital patients. ever, eh! Pretty gtuiet, not like it is here just now. The engineers are blowing up some of Jerry's dud • bombs over- on the hill and they are making quite a racket. By the way they fell ".I think he meant them for a big 4, stone 'bridge , but ' they 'landed a long. Ways too short and only one went off. Haw is Dad doing; is he still up north . or has he been moved again?, I guess he will,be getting pretty,sick of that job now, as it is awful tiresome. We sure have a' lot of Italian prisoners • in' this. country now and they are all over the place. They don't . need any guards, as they know when they are ' well off and you couldn't get 'rid 'of -them if you tried. , Well this is getting to be quite a length - now so I guess I had better close as it is nearly sup- per time again which' will likely be bully beef .again: When I. get home I don't wait to see stew any more. When: we,' were in Africa we had stew' for 22 meals straight so you know why I'm. sick of it. . Don't forget to write soon an n d give my regards to all. Be see; t ing you soon • , . t Sincerely, Bill. Pte. W. J. Stimson m B. Company, Can. ArMy entre Mediterrane n 'Force, j s SET OVERSEAS DEADLINE.DATE Christmas boxes will have a• much longer distance, to 'travel, entailing more handling and re shipment to reach many members of Canada's- Fighting Services this year. To `enable all the Do-. • minion's men and women, over- seas to receive their .gifts from home in timefor Christmas Day, the Postmaster General, Hon. Williani' P. •Mulock, K.C.., M.P. ' calls on the public to' mail early. for ' Christmas Overseas - not later' than November 1, Thedate is. 10 days earlier than last, year's closing time, but with many men . serving in , the Med- iterranean areas, etc.,, 'Ole. dead line .has .been advanced to meet the rapidly changing conditions.. The public, are • cauti ned -to lose no timebut to . mal early for Christmas Overseas--now.and during October—the earlier the better to ensure. the, timely . ar- rival of the .arodoislf" awaited gift. The 'more dista»t'our Forces• may be from Canada, the ,earlier their Christmas., mail Should be sent. Citizens are requested net to delay until the last minute to post their gift parcels but to mail early and so prevent con- gestion by giving the Post Office opportunity t�. give their mails prompt handling and. to 'arrange for adequate cargo space, which because of the shipment , of war supplies is necessarily. limited. It is ,also . suggested that to help. fa- cilitate the provision of shipping • space for the overseas. Christmas'. mails to the Canadian Forces that each ' sender should voluntarily cut down as far as -possible en the weight and size of each Christmas ' • pac kage, notwith- standing the fact'that.the maxi - muni Nyreight of a parcel at' re- duced rates is set at 11 pounds, °They will thus enable the Post Office to forwardthe maximum number of parcels in the space available aboard each ship, and so make :.deliveries in time for. , all. There is the most-vitall--need of full co-operation by the pub- lic, for this year the Post Office expects an .all-time record in the overseas volume of military mail. Address all mails in ink, fully, clearly . and without rnislTeading abbreviations. Be sure to place return address on cover, also in- clude a slip in the parcel bear- ing the sender's address as well as address of parcel. Prepay all, mail correctly. Parcels should be . packed com- pactly enough to resist the pres- sure of other .mails in the, sack and the handling in transit -.---each article in., the .parcel firmly se- cured. Use strong corrugated con ,7,- not light cardboard box= es, wrap in several layers of thick wrapping paper, and tie securely 'with strong ,cord. Do not use fancy Christmas', tissue paper for ,wrapper, ; or colored ribbons to tie. Parcelsmay be sewn in strong cotton or similar fabric.' Jams, syrups and any other substance likely to leak and spread, if sent at all, must be en- closed in sealed containers; not glasis bottles, surrounded With allsorbant material in .corrugated cardboard; and -securely wrapped and tied. A completed ..Customs Declaration form should be af- fixed tb every panel. Apples, grapes, etc., or any article likely o spoil or become. damaged, or o injure Postal personnel, or the mails are, not acceptable. The ailing of'' matches, safety -mat- ches and lighter"fluid or any o he m�a.ole substance iso . trictly pro ibited by law. B127669 40.