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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1981-11-11, Page 3• Thi. i. 1 a nada'. e..Il 10 1141 ileo are now • ntr.l to mao tilt alio... Iaoh-. armoatrd suit., all Ihr i ui'''''.un of ,oats ra starfnrr ..hi. h Ihr fa. n.rir. 1114 produ• Ina .4.1..1.1.•. II i- a •t.ffr..•..1 sac 1hi, time. R h, n s, 1., 1r41 .hr lion hrforr. ,nrr s r rr, rainrd Ion. 1" i. trait, , 1,.01..,.1. In hallr tin 1 ran... ..•,.. u art- r tait,d and t,,,, n, d here: • Iher.rn. to join Ihr stale. art. hold. ir.l I.al lir 1,.1•it' . n Ihr ..l - of Old 1 ru•L.nd, or ithrrr,, r Ow rail drinand,, CTIVE SERVICE The Canadian Ort isr Arms rryuirra r„...1 for 4 rl illrr.. 4,.I:in.•rr., "iun..k. Armourr,I tars, lank-.1n1..ntr,. 1 ra...l...rt and Ouppl,. ardlral, linlnanrr and tither bravo hes of the Sri -lice. -I 1.• 4r11,. is prr,atrrd 1t, trach noun, trades, and t.. train ,un to rffiri.•uti!. handle (:auada'a .44.,..10 ..f sac. 1... a. ...nr otarr.1 1)i,tr„t Its•-rni11f4 fold ..111 ghoul th,•.c 1 uit how they stork. shat u..•, do. �., j..•1 ..here you'ii ht its, her .here any ,:arid ulnr .Lill .nu la,.., ., ,•, t. atilv4.1. •rhe., j ..,, .,r .41 11114, RATES Of PAY IN THE RANKS - r - A, ...A ,,.... . .'pply to nearest Ili.l cit l Recruilina 011 ice :u 1} 10(.11 .1111,1,411 DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL'' DEFENCE CANADA Clinton \E 1,'.s-Ilecorfl, .Way 22, 1911 recruiting ;ffr Clinton POS won't forget LEONARD WINTER (SKIP) enlisted in May 1940 in the Reserve army, serving with the Huron Middlesex Regt. until August 1942 when he transferred to the ac- tive army, training at. Chatham until August 1943. On Friday, September 13th, 194a, he sail- ed on the Queen Elizabeth 'for Scotland, and after extensive training in England was attached to the Essex Scottish Regt. of Windsor, Ont., and landed in France July 13, 1944. He was in action with the enemy south of Caen when the break through the enemy lines was completely cut off and the few remaining Canadians were captured. Skip was among those captured on July 21, 1944. Then followed a month of starvation to • lower their resistance and weaken them. They were allowed to wash their faces once a week and had one cup of water and one tin of weak soup a day. After this month at Chartiers,. France, they were loaded, 50 to a box car and shipped to Limberg, Germany, Stalag 12A. Here be- ing registered as prisoners of war with the international Red Cross, they were handed a Red Cross parcel. Unashamed tears flowed from their faces at this unexpected gift. From that night on they had nightly prayer meetings among themselves. . In September of 1944 they were shipped again inbox cars to Stalag 8B, Czechoslovakia. This Stalag was by far the best yet, almost dominated inside by older British Tommies. Here they received a regular food parcel once a week. Two weeks at 8B and then to a work camp ( a coal mine). Here they were taught the delicate art of work but didn't prove to be very apt pupils, atter the cunning taught them by the older prisoners at Stalag 8B. The general plan of a prison camp was as follows: Around the outside were two fences twenty feet high and five feet apart'. The gate was of equal height heavily bar- red and locked with several strong locks. Armed guards patrolled the area between these fences and at each corner was a tower equipped with flood lights 'and machine guns. At a distance of fiftyfeet from these fences were a duplicate set, of fences and inside of this network of fences was the prisoners' compound and their verthin infested huts. Finally the Russians started their great offensive and on Jan. 21, 1945 'Skip' and his comrades were' started on a march which proved to be his start for home. At 6 a.m. and at 20 below zero they marched over icy roads until 7 a.m. the following morning, 25 hours' continuous marching with only one.10 minute halt. That day and night. they lost fifty percent of their party. Then followed a nightmarish three mon- ths of marching, privation and starvation, with disease and exposure, sleeping in drafty barns with only one blanket. After marching 1,000 miles there were only 98 men left of the original party of 503. On April 23rd, 1945, a 'detachment of the U.S. 7th Army overran the party and released the prisoners near Munich, Ger- many. Skip was then flown to Rhiems, France, by the U.S. Army and to England by the R.A.F. in converted bombers, lan- ding in England May 3rd and hospitalized in England. He journeyed to New York on the Queen Mary, arriving in Clinton July 13, 1945, a great town in a land of plenty. Make it you and SK1-DOO; together! Now that he's part of the Bombardier team he ((1,' provides you and your family with everything needed for I4r'r OLltdr-!Or enjoyment, this winter And because Bombardier is the we*rkd 5 'E /]'T. WU kngw that he ,'(1r' offer you nothing but the best In s(14' r 1' d cifter sales service of SKI•Dk ,I sr c,.'-rtirr ..rite .lt ess(xIes and sportswe, lr There ..ire "/i r ^..7E'', : 7! f,,r u•', fuding a r urr.t;l..r of r•p.o. faces in the Lyle un (wort fr,_I^_ ,;)1,r r':ew Ski DOG dealer) Sc) clef toaether rec7'' S,,r make It VOU 1„(1 `,k, ; •o) 44t-442: e Harold Elder Your new SKI -000 dealer. They didn't come home ALVIN CORLESS, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.T. Corless, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. as Clerk Accountant in 1942. He was remustered to the Air Crew and received his wings and commission at Centralia in May 1943. He arrived overseas in July 1943 and was promoted to F.O. He participated in the invasion of Europe, and on June 22nd 1944, while on a bombing mission to Wasseling, Germany, the plane was shot down by a German night fighter, causing instant death to Alvin and his crew. They are buried in Yecuiven,' Belgium. FLIGHT SERGEANT ERNEST E. MITTELL made application in September 1939 to train as a pilot. He was called for enlistment in August 1940 and trained for the Royal Canadian Air Force, graduating as a navigator. He left for England in January 1942. He and his crew were killed in a crash in Wales on J my 2nd, 1942 and he is now buried in Hereford Cemetery, England. Flight Sergeant Mittell was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Mittell, CHARLES EDWARD MUTCH, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mutch, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Airforce in November, 1940. After graduating from Camp Borden as a Sgt. Pilot, he went to England in September 1941 where he received ad- vanced training with Spitfire aircraft and in May 1942 he was posted to Malta as a fighter pilot with such fliers as Buzz Birling. He was in Malta -five months during the blitz in 1942 and while at Malta was promoted to the rank of Warrent Officer. He left Malta oh October 31, 1942, on a Liberator Bomber bound for England in company of 15 other pilots. While making a landing at Gilbraltar their aircraft overshot the runway and crashed into the sea. He and several other of the pilots were killed and they were buried at sea. SERGEANT W.E. HUNKING, son of Mr. L.W. La vis of Clinton, was a student at Clinton Collegiate Insitute when he enlisted. He joined the R.C.A.F. in London. He went overseas in January 1942, and while in action over Germany, on his first operational flight, was reported missing, and later reported to have been buried in a cemetery in Cologne, Germany. . F. O. JOHN DAVID HAWKINS, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hawkins, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. on April 22nd, 1941, and train- ed as navigator. He left for England on May 3rd, 1942 and made his first flight over enemy territory on Jan. 29, 1943. On May 8, 1943,. he volunteered and was accepted for 'Pathfinder Squadron' and was posted to a station near Cambridge. On August 17, 1943, while on the return trip from Turin, Italy, he was reported missing. This was his 32nd trip over Europe. KEITH WARD JENKS, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Quaife of London, and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. E. Ward, Clinton, had just completed Itis education at Clinton Col- legiate. He enlisted in the R.C.N.V.R. on May 13th, 1943 at London, Ont., and was at- tached to H.M:C.S. `York', Toronto, going overseas in April 1944. Word was received that his ship, the "Alberni", was lost at sea on August 20th, 1944. It was after the crew had been on a four day leave that they started out of the English Channel into the Atlantic for enemy action, and the ship was torpedoed. This was the second attack on the ship. The first time they brought down an 88 'Junkers' plane, souvernirs of which were to be brought home. CAPTAIN JAMES OWEN COMBE, only son of Col. H. B. Combe, V.D., and Mrs. Combe, Clinton, Ont., was born in Clinton on Oct. 24, 1914. He received his education at the Clinton Public School and Trinity College School, Port Hope, which he at- tended for six years. He then came home to go into business with his father at the Clinton Knitting Company. He was a member of the Huron Middlesex Regt. and when the World War II broke out he enlisted in the Infantry Division, and train- ed at London, Ont., and Ipperwash, Ont., going overseas to England first, then on to France. He was killed in action in the Bat- tle of Normandy, on August 27, 1944, and buried on the bank of the Seine in France. ROBERT DOUGLAS McKENZIE, F -S McKenzie was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. McKenzie and was born in Toronto May 18, 1922. When two )F ars old he moved with his family to Detroit, attending school at the Edison Public School. At the age of nine his family moved to Clinton, where he attended the Public School and Collegiate Institute. He was very interested in sports and was a member of the juvenile hockey team. In religion he was Presbyterian. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in December 1940 and was trained as a wireless air gunner. He went overseas in December 1941. It was while on opera- tional flying at Silloth, Cumberland, England, on August 25, 1942, that Robert was lost along with four other crew members over the Irish Sea. His body was recovered at Anon, Scotland, Sept. 8, 1942 and was buried at Causewayhead Cemetery, Silloth, CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11,11—PAGE 3 Clinton's i ielttry• Celebration, .'\'an'. 11, 1918 orld War sgfl "They paid the prise.... There were in all 32 men, most of whom enlisted in Clinton, going overseas in the 33rd and 161st Battalions. A few enlisted at other points but all were Clinton boys, some of whom were boys in their teens. When the call came they were unafraid, looking upon life with clear hopeful eyes. Others were a little older. One by one they answered the call, giving up un- complainingly what all men count dear. An officer, writing to the mother of a fallen hero, once said, "I visited two cemeteries whose soil contain's the richest remains time has ever laid to rest in any land. Never lived a finer body of heores and gentlemen than those Canadians who lie there. They have paid the price of those miles of bleak war scarred territory, they have paid the price for lustre which has come back to the faded eyes of the liberated French who in these northern towns have been slaves of Germany for four years, and greater love hath no'man than this." Canada will never forget, Clinton will never forget, her noble band of fallen heroes. These held thy high tradition in their keeping, This flower of all a nation's Youth and Pride And safe they hold it still in their last sleeping Who heard thy call, and answered it, and died. He died for Victoria Cross HARRY MINOR, V.C. Clinton's Harry Minor, V.C. served with the 58th Battalion C.E.F. and won the Victoria Cross. On August 8th, 1918 he captured an enemy machine gun single handed, killing the entire German crew, and turned the gun on the enemy, and in spite of mortal wounds he refused to withdraw. Later with two others 'he attacked a machine gun post and put the gun out of action, then rushed single handed on the enemy bombing post, bayonetting twoof the garrison and putting the remainder to flight. ' He was mortally wounded during the action that won him the coveted Victoria Cross. He was born in Chatham and came to enlist with his brother that they might go overseas together. ' Brave men came home with WWII. awards WILLIAM FRANCIS COOK, D.F.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Cook, enlisted as a stu- dent from the Clinton Collegiate Institute on March 15th, 1941, He received his wings,, on Oct. 22, 1941 at Dauphin, Manitoba. He. arrived overseas in November 1941 and joined Squadron 421, "Red Indians", as an original member. He was promoted to Sgt. Pilot in April 1942 and received commis- sion shortly after. On Oct. 3, 1943 he was. forced down in Occupied France, and with the help of the French underground managed to get through France and Spain and was reported safe in Gibraltar on Nov. 13, 1943. He spent a month's leave at home and returned to the "Red Indian" Squadron in January 1944. He participated in the inva- sion of Europe, with three and one half enemy aircraft destroyed, also two trains and numerous transport. He arrived in Canada November 1944 and was awarded the D.F.C. in the New Year's awards of 1945. He was holder of Operational Wings and Bar, and was discharged March 15, 1945, as Flight Lieutenant. THOMAS C. COOKE, A.F.C., D.F.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Cooke, enlisted in R.C.A.F. in March 1940 and became flying instructor at Dauphin, Man. He later received a commission and became navigator after training at Surnmerside, P.E.I. He was later attached to Eastern Coastal Command and went to Ireland in 1943 with Squadron 164. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sinking a German submarine and about one year later he received the Air Force Cross. He is at present flying for the Provincial Air Service. ROBERT MORRISON ALDWINCKLE, D.F.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aldwin- clde of Varna, was educated at S.S. No. No. 10 Stanley Twp., Clinton Collegiate and Toronto University, and enlisted with the R.C.A.F. in August 1940. 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While at Yarmouth he was mentioned in despatches. From Yarmouth he was posted to Gander,. Newfoundland, where he continued in the coastal command. While here he won the D.F.C. for sinking two German submarines and received .the award in the King's Birthday Honor List. He was then sent to Halifax to Eastern Air Command Headquarters and here received the rank of Squadron Leader, later being sent to Mr Force Head-' quarters, Ottawa, where he remained until he received his discharge in April 1945. He then returned to University of Toronto. Red Cross helped others The Clinton Red Cross Society was organized on September 28, 1939. Under the Clinton charter were grouped Bayfield, Brucefield, Varna, Holmesville, 'Lon- desboro, Porter's Hill, Tuckersmith, Summerhill, SS No. 4 Goderich Township, Goderich South End, Auxiliary and the Town of Clinton, 12 units in all. Later, however, four of these received their own charters. 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