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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-11-09, Page 36PAGE I8 -REMEMBRANCE DAY -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, NOVEMBER 9, 1994 Jas. Quinlan * James Racho * William Ramsay * Marie Regier Dalton Reid * Leslie Routledge and received his wings in Nov. 1943. Served as a flying instructor in Windsor, Trenton, Fort William, Camp Borden and Manitoba. Dis- charged - July 1945. Died Feb. 1993. Tom Sills * R. M. O'Gorman Lloyd Rowat * Carmon Rowcliffe Robert Ste. Marie * Robert Sallows Arnold Scott * Barbara Scott R.M. O'GORMAN LAW2 O'Gorman R.M. 45847W. In 1951 during the Korean conflict. Charles Scott * She joined the R.C.A.F. at Noah Bay, Ont. Her basic training was at St. Johns, Quebec., and then she Gordon Scott * was posted to Clinton R.C.A.F. Station to take a communications course. After graduation she was stationed to the #1 Air Radio Officers school as an instructor in air to ground communication. In 1953 she was sent to the East Coast to participate in the War Games. She remained at R.C.A.F. Station, Clinton as an instructor until her discharge at the end of April 1954. It was then she married a Seaforth native, Alvin Regier. Merton A. Reid * Reg Reid Gordon Rennie Ross Rennie Harold Rice * James Riley * Clayton Ritchie Emmerson Ritchie Fletcher Ritchie Leslie Ritchie Elmer Rivers * John Roberts * Art Rockett * Gordon Scott * Barbara Scott and James T. Scott * Mac Scott Ross Scott * Thompson Scott * Oliver Seagrist * Wallace Shannon Melville Shannon * Keith Sharpe * Alvin Sillery * Frank Sills FRANCIS C.J. SILLS Sergeant Francis C.J. Sills, R.C.A.F. Born and raised in Seaforth, enlisted after 14 trips to the recruiting office in London. Took Radio Course at University of Toronto. Overseas to radar course at Yatesbury, Wiltshire up to night - fighter squadron #141, Heathfield Scotland, then over to two types of Radar Stations, Roddans Port and Ballinderry in Northern Irealand. Posted to North Africa and then to Mobile Radar Servicing unit in Italy attached to American 5th Army. Served up west side including Anzio Beach Head and up to Leghorn. Sent in to France on the invasion near the Riviera. With the American 7th army and French 1st. Germans soon began to retreat because of Falaise Cape. Back to Italy and then to England, married, came back to Canada and down to Scoudouc, N.B. Discharged August 1945. Total service 4 years 6 months and 4 of those years were with the Royal Air Force. THOMAS D. SILLS Flying officer Thomas D. Sills served in Militia in Seaforth then joined the Air Force in 1940 as an accountant. Remustered to aircrew D'Orlean and Tom SIUa, flying officer. In times of peace remember those who fought to achieve it. 527-0430 Countrywide "CREATIVE" REALTY INC. D'Orlean Sills * D'ORLEAN SILLS Sergeant G. D'Orlean Sills, born and raised in Seaforth. A member of Huron Middlesex Militia which was never mobilized. Joined the airforce where they utilized his trade of plumbing and heating by giving him a roving assignment of many airdromes from Ontario to the queen Charlotte Islands checking and giving advice on problems. He died in 1994. CANADIAN TIRE 527-1350 MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH They Fought For Our Freedom Your uncle Insurance Main St., Seaforth 527-1610 SEAFORTH INSURANCE BROKER LTD.