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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-05-10, Page 9m Small Engine Sales & Service LAWN -BOY igatitung ma HWY #86 WHITECHURCH 357-2277 . PARTS & SERVICE FOR ALL MAKES OF OUTDOOR POWER EQUIPMENT NOMA RYOBI WARRANTIES HONOURED q sENIORS—PREEEPICKUP b'DELIVERRv ' King joined the RCAF in Febru- ary of 1941, training in Toronto, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, receiving his wings at Fingal as an" observer and naviga- tor. He arrived in England in Janu- ary of 1942. Before enlisting,. George King had run the family business, taking over in 1936 with the death of his father. He was president of the Re- tail Merchants' Association and a member of St._ Andredu's Presbyter- ian Church. PRESTON LEDIET Private Preston H. Lediet was killed in action on Aug. 26, 1944, while assaulting the Gothic Line in Italy as part of the Seaforth High- landers of Canada, 1st Canadian Division. He was 29 'years of age and is buried in the Montecchio War Cemetery in Italy. A member of the Middlesex and Huron Regiment since 1936, Lediet also belgonged to the 99th Battery, Wingham. He joined the Kent Regiment at Chatham in August of 1940 and ar- rived in England two years later. He went to North Africa as a rein- forcement in August of 1943. In December .of 1940, Preston Lediet received the gift of a pen and pencil set from the Town of Wingham. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lediet of Wingham. GEORGE H. LLOID Flying Officer George Henry Lloyd was killed .March 4, 1945, shot down by an enemy fighter at Bgafferton in Yorkshire, England. George Lloyd joined the RCAF in May of 1943. He trained in La- chine, Que. and attended bombing and gunnery school in Saskatche- wan, graduating as a bombardier from Portage IaPrairie. The son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Lloyd of Wingham, George attend- ed the Wingham public and high schools. He is buried in Stonefall Cemetery in Yorkshire, England. JAMES McKAGUE Capt. James McLean McKague was killed in action on Aug. 17, 1944. He was 27 years old. A 1939 graduate of the. Veteri- nary College at Guelph, Jim was a son of Mrs. Andrew McKague of Wingham. He, had four brothers and two,sisters.. A member of the 99th Battery militia, Wingham,,he enlisted when the battery mobilized in September of 1941. After taking officer train- ing at the Brockville Military Acad- emy, McKague went to England in. July of 1943 with the 19th Army Field Regiment RCA. A participant in the D -Day land- ing, he was killed in action a few short months later in France. WILLIAM H.PYM William H. Pym, RCAF, was killed in action on July 4, 1943. His plane was lost over Belgium ,during operations against Cologne, Germa- ny. He was buried at St. Trond, Belgium, but later reburied in a war cemetery at Heverlee Brabant, Bel- gium. William H. Pym joined the RCAF at London in July 1941 and graduated as a sergeant air gunner at Fingal Bombing and Gunnery School. He arrived in England in May of 1942. At the time of his death, he was 22 years of age. CLIFFORD TAMAN Sergeant Clifford Alfred Taman was killed in action on Aug. 8, 1944, dying of burn wounds result- ing from an American bombing mission. He is buried at Bretville Sur La Laize, France and died at the age of 32. Taman learned the barber trade at Blyth and .was employed for a number of years with Orville Hab- kirk of Wingham. He married Leila Irene Ard in May of 1941 and they • had one daughter, never seen by her father. He trained at Listowel, Petaw- awa, Tracadie and Sussex, N. B., before arriving in England in No- vember of 1941 with the 7th Army Field Regiment RCA. He later was designated to the 7th Canadian Me- dium Regiment and received a commander-in-chief certificate. GEORGE WHEELER George Wheeler, son of Thomas Wheeler of Turnberry Township, was killed in action on Feb. 25, 1943, shot down over Ludwighsha- fen, Germany and buried in a war cemetery at Durnback, Germany. Wheeler joined the RCAF and was promoted to sergeant, receiv- ing his Observers' Wings at Jarvis, Ont. in January of 1942. He arrived in England in March of 1942 and was promoted to flying officer in October of that year. He took part in air raids on Turin, Italy. George Wheeler was 24 years of age when he died. Before enlist- ment, he had been employed at Crawford Garage. ) MAY10,1995 V -E Day Photo...Eileen Hamilton was living in Streetsville with her two young daughters Jean and Linda on May 8, 1945, when they learned the war in Europe was over. This photograph was taken in their backyard that day. Engaged... Muriel Alcorn and future hus- band Jim in their engagement photo taken on May 8, 1945 in the garden of her London home. Remembering the war from the other side earafioued na front page ther owned a small quarry and was a Social Democrat in his views, something akin to the New Demo- cratic Party in this country, Otto ex- plains today. Others in the village had Communist leanings. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, they deftly moved to destroy all opposition. Although he was just a small child at the time, Otto remembers that overnight the beggars were gone from the streets, everyone had work, everyone was prosperous. It is clear today that with the building of the German autobahns, or highways, and the factories he- ing put into full-scale production, Hitler was building a war machine. A German newspaper of the day ran the headline "Hitler Means War", Otto recalls, but if anyone was concerned, they didn't show it. The seeds of discontent were sown with the terms that ended World War I, Otto explains. Ger- many was left alone in defeat, ruined financially and pyschologi- cally. Out of this despair, it was rel- atively easy for a dictator like Adolf Hitler to rise-- he was prom- ising the people a return, to past glo- ry and when good people recog- nized the evil behind his plans, it was too late. NO OPPOSITION The Nazis controled the hearts and minds of the German people through sheer terror. All opposition' parties were outlawed and system- atically, the people, even the chil- dren, indoctrinated into the Nazi dogma. Like all young Germans, Henry was a member of the Hitler Youth. Not everyone bought into the Nazi doctrine, but such was the ter- ror of being discovered, that all conformed. It was brother against brother, children against their par- ents. Even the most the innocent comment could bring the SS to your door. Some people disap- peared never to be seen again, re- ports Otto. The German people never were told the truth about what was going in the war, Otto claims, adding peo- ple were deported for listening to radio broadcasts from Switzerland, a neutral country. Those caught lis- tening to Russian radio, after the collapse of the German -Russian Pact, were never seen again. There was one Jewish family in Henry's village. One day, they were gone, presumably to a labor camp or death camp. Today, Otto says there were rumors of what was going on in such camps, but no one knew for sure. However, by the middle of 1944 it could not be hidden that the tide of the war was turning. ,Otto re- members one morning in the late spring of 1944. He was out tending his few livestock when his uncle, red-faced and exuberant, spoke in an excited whisper, "Henry, they have arrived." "Who?" the young man asked. "The British, the Americans and the Canadians," was his happy re- The last few months of the war were not easy with Allied bombers pummeling German targets. Today, Otto feels it was not necessary. the war was all but won. He vividly re- members a whole hospital block being wiped out in a nearby town, mistaken for a train depot. By the end of the war, everyone was drafted, young people, old peo- ple, the disabled and infirm. Even one man in Otto's village who had recently died was drafted. It was in a losing effort, but many" young people died in those final weeks and days of the war attempting to save the Fatherland. Otto's village was spared from the invaders when the mayor stepped in to negotiate with the Americans, poised on the outskirts with their tank artillery aimed at the building in the middle of the square. The town' was liberated on April 25, 1945, by a battalion of black soliders, Otto recalls, with white officers. MARSHALL PLAN After the war, Germany lay in ruins, as did much of Europe. But this, time, the world stepped in to offer its help and through the Mar- shall Plan billions of dollars in aid rebuilt the country and bolstered its post-war economy. It was Germa- ny's salvation, Otto claims, adding without the Marshall Plan, all of Germany would have ended up a Communist state. However, the country was divid- ed and that caused problems in it- self. When Otto had the chance to sell his family's small quarry and move to Canada to farm, he did so gladly. Although he returns fre- quently to Germany, he never has regretted the decision. He says he should write a book about his war -time experiences and perhaps he will, especially as he dabbled in journalism for a time. Like many people of his genera- tion, his memory of those days re- mains vivid. I Roll Call (Editor's' Note: A totgl of ,13 young men from Wingham paid the ulti- mate sacrifice in World War 11, some losing their lives in the dy- ing months of the conflict. lest we forget.) LESLIE 'DAIR Leslie James Adair, a member of Squadron No. 156 of the Royal Air Force was killed in action on Jan. 3, 1944. He was 21 years of age and has no known grave. Flying in a Lancaster bomber, the .path- finder force had Berlin, Germany, as its target. Adair had over 60 op- erational flights to his credit. A member of the 99th Battery, militia, he joined the Royal Canadi- an Air Force in August of 1941 as an air gunner, arriving overseas in April of 1942. Adair was on the first shuttle bombing trip from England to North Africa by way of Southern Germany and then back from North Africa by way of Italy. A . member of the Wingham United Church, Leslie Adair was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Adair of Wingham, owners of Adair Transport. PERCY BIGGS Percival Frederick Biggs was killed in an airplane accident on Dec. 16, 1942, aged 22. A militia member with the 99th Battery, Wingham, from Oct., 1939 to Aug., 1942, Biggs joined the RCAF and graduated as a wireless gunner from Winnipeg in October of 1942. He was engaged in a navi- gation training exercise when his Anson aircraft crashed into Patricia Bay in British Columbia. Biggs attended Wingham public and high schools. He was a mem- ber of the Wingham United Church and had been employed with C. Lloyd & Son. AC Biggs was pre- sented with a gift from Turnberry Township Council. He is buried in Wingham Cemetery. WILLIAM GROVES Thomas William (Bill) GPoves died in Victoria Hospital on Oct. 24, 1945. He was 25 years of age. Groves went overseas in January of 1943 with the Irish Regiment of Canada. He arrived in Italy jn De- cember of that year, spending, five months there. His. ankle ;gayq,,oirt and he was invalided back to Eng- land in June, 1944 and returned home in September of that year in poor health. Bill Groves was survived by his father, Earl, one brother and four sisters. He is buried in Wingham Cemetery. R. McKENZIE HABKIRK Ramsay McKenzie Habkirk was killed in action on Aug. 5, 1944, engaged in a special night opera- tion over enemy -occupied territory. He is buried in the Tilley-Sur- Seulles War Cemetery in Nor- mandy, France. Habkirk enlisted with the RCAF in June of 1942 and graduated as a bomb aimer from St. John, Que. and was commissioned in May of 1943. On staff at the local Bank of Commerce, he was the son of Mrs. Orville Habkirk of Kincardine and the late Mr. Habkirk. W. C. HART Wilbert Carl Hart was killed in action on Christmas Eve, 1944. He was 37 years of age and had been previously wounded in October of that year. Hart enlisted in February of 1941 and proceeded overseas in 1942 where he was posted to The Black Watch of the Royal Highland Regi- ment of Canada. He served with the fifth brigade of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in Canada, the United Kingdom and in Continental Europe. He is buried in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Nijme- gen, Holland. He was a son of Herbert and Edith May Hart and was survived by brothers Earl of Wingham and Alvin of Zetland, as well as his wife, Sara Lavinia (Durnin). Hart. WILLIAM E. KEW Born at Whitechurch , William Ernest Kew passed away on March 12, 1946, at Christie Street Military Hospital in Toronto. He was 40 years of age. Kew was a flight sergeant with the RCAF from 1941 to 1946. He was a bombing and gunnery in- structor here in Canada. He became ill in Vancouver and died in Toronto. William Kew was a member of the Wingham United Church and the Masonic Lodge. GEORGE T. KING Flight Sergeant George Thomas King was killed in action on May 24, 1942. His Hudson aircraft crashed into the sea from the RAF station at Silloth, England. He was 25 years of age and has no known grave. 1 I= a 7€owea Daily delivery to Lucknow, Teeswater, Brussels, Gorrie and all points in between. WIRE SERVICE Also Available Sunday Mornings 135 Frances St. Wingham 357-3880 Vance's Pharmacy Your Guardian Drug Store Surgical Supplies • Veterinary Supplies Lee Vance Ltd. L.E. Vance Phm. B. Wingham 357-2170 Prix! PITROCANADA Petro -Canada Produces Bob Foxton Fuels Limited Wholesale Marketer 50 North Street West Wingham, Ontario ' NOG 2W0 Tel: Wingham (519)357-2664 Toll Free: 1-800-265-3069 Fax: 357-4091 MAITLAND' ESTATES Cusaon Built Homes on Fully Serviced Lots in Wingham 357-2310 Grading • Gravel • Top Soil Since 1976 JAMES SYMES PAVING & MATERIALS ASPHALT & CONCRETE DRIVEWAYS Paving of roads, parking lots, and tennis courts BOX 54, RR5 LUCKNOW 528-3047 4, D'AR€:EY SAND &GRAVEL LTD • Concrete Gravel • Road Gravel • Drainage Stone • Topsoil & Fill yah 3354949 Fifty years ago, Canadian Forces landed on the beaches of Normandy and began the long drive to free Europe. ' Thanks to those brave Canadians Ewho fought to preserve Canada and ,' ,, � the freedom of her people. The Veterans and Members of The Wingham Branch 180 BELL'S PIZZA & MUCH MORE Pizzas available to cook at home Check our quality & our prices! 176 Josephine St., Wingham . 357-3400 ZEHRS MARKETS WINGHANI • , 357-3771 Small Engine Sales & Service LAWN -BOY igatitung ma HWY #86 WHITECHURCH 357-2277 . PARTS & SERVICE FOR ALL MAKES OF OUTDOOR POWER EQUIPMENT NOMA RYOBI WARRANTIES HONOURED q sENIORS—PREEEPICKUP b'DELIVERRv ' King joined the RCAF in Febru- ary of 1941, training in Toronto, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, receiving his wings at Fingal as an" observer and naviga- tor. He arrived in England in Janu- ary of 1942. Before enlisting,. George King had run the family business, taking over in 1936 with the death of his father. He was president of the Re- tail Merchants' Association and a member of St._ Andredu's Presbyter- ian Church. PRESTON LEDIET Private Preston H. Lediet was killed in action on Aug. 26, 1944, while assaulting the Gothic Line in Italy as part of the Seaforth High- landers of Canada, 1st Canadian Division. He was 29 'years of age and is buried in the Montecchio War Cemetery in Italy. A member of the Middlesex and Huron Regiment since 1936, Lediet also belgonged to the 99th Battery, Wingham. He joined the Kent Regiment at Chatham in August of 1940 and ar- rived in England two years later. He went to North Africa as a rein- forcement in August of 1943. In December .of 1940, Preston Lediet received the gift of a pen and pencil set from the Town of Wingham. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lediet of Wingham. GEORGE H. LLOID Flying Officer George Henry Lloyd was killed .March 4, 1945, shot down by an enemy fighter at Bgafferton in Yorkshire, England. George Lloyd joined the RCAF in May of 1943. He trained in La- chine, Que. and attended bombing and gunnery school in Saskatche- wan, graduating as a bombardier from Portage IaPrairie. The son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Lloyd of Wingham, George attend- ed the Wingham public and high schools. He is buried in Stonefall Cemetery in Yorkshire, England. JAMES McKAGUE Capt. James McLean McKague was killed in action on Aug. 17, 1944. He was 27 years old. A 1939 graduate of the. Veteri- nary College at Guelph, Jim was a son of Mrs. Andrew McKague of Wingham. He, had four brothers and two,sisters.. A member of the 99th Battery militia, Wingham,,he enlisted when the battery mobilized in September of 1941. After taking officer train- ing at the Brockville Military Acad- emy, McKague went to England in. July of 1943 with the 19th Army Field Regiment RCA. A participant in the D -Day land- ing, he was killed in action a few short months later in France. WILLIAM H.PYM William H. Pym, RCAF, was killed in action on July 4, 1943. His plane was lost over Belgium ,during operations against Cologne, Germa- ny. He was buried at St. Trond, Belgium, but later reburied in a war cemetery at Heverlee Brabant, Bel- gium. William H. Pym joined the RCAF at London in July 1941 and graduated as a sergeant air gunner at Fingal Bombing and Gunnery School. He arrived in England in May of 1942. At the time of his death, he was 22 years of age. CLIFFORD TAMAN Sergeant Clifford Alfred Taman was killed in action on Aug. 8, 1944, dying of burn wounds result- ing from an American bombing mission. He is buried at Bretville Sur La Laize, France and died at the age of 32. Taman learned the barber trade at Blyth and .was employed for a number of years with Orville Hab- kirk of Wingham. He married Leila Irene Ard in May of 1941 and they • had one daughter, never seen by her father. He trained at Listowel, Petaw- awa, Tracadie and Sussex, N. B., before arriving in England in No- vember of 1941 with the 7th Army Field Regiment RCA. He later was designated to the 7th Canadian Me- dium Regiment and received a commander-in-chief certificate. GEORGE WHEELER George Wheeler, son of Thomas Wheeler of Turnberry Township, was killed in action on Feb. 25, 1943, shot down over Ludwighsha- fen, Germany and buried in a war cemetery at Durnback, Germany. Wheeler joined the RCAF and was promoted to sergeant, receiv- ing his Observers' Wings at Jarvis, Ont. in January of 1942. He arrived in England in March of 1942 and was promoted to flying officer in October of that year. He took part in air raids on Turin, Italy. George Wheeler was 24 years of age when he died. Before enlist- ment, he had been employed at Crawford Garage. ) MAY10,1995 V -E Day Photo...Eileen Hamilton was living in Streetsville with her two young daughters Jean and Linda on May 8, 1945, when they learned the war in Europe was over. This photograph was taken in their backyard that day. Engaged... Muriel Alcorn and future hus- band Jim in their engagement photo taken on May 8, 1945 in the garden of her London home. Remembering the war from the other side earafioued na front page ther owned a small quarry and was a Social Democrat in his views, something akin to the New Demo- cratic Party in this country, Otto ex- plains today. Others in the village had Communist leanings. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, they deftly moved to destroy all opposition. Although he was just a small child at the time, Otto remembers that overnight the beggars were gone from the streets, everyone had work, everyone was prosperous. It is clear today that with the building of the German autobahns, or highways, and the factories he- ing put into full-scale production, Hitler was building a war machine. A German newspaper of the day ran the headline "Hitler Means War", Otto recalls, but if anyone was concerned, they didn't show it. The seeds of discontent were sown with the terms that ended World War I, Otto explains. Ger- many was left alone in defeat, ruined financially and pyschologi- cally. Out of this despair, it was rel- atively easy for a dictator like Adolf Hitler to rise-- he was prom- ising the people a return, to past glo- ry and when good people recog- nized the evil behind his plans, it was too late. NO OPPOSITION The Nazis controled the hearts and minds of the German people through sheer terror. All opposition' parties were outlawed and system- atically, the people, even the chil- dren, indoctrinated into the Nazi dogma. Like all young Germans, Henry was a member of the Hitler Youth. Not everyone bought into the Nazi doctrine, but such was the ter- ror of being discovered, that all conformed. It was brother against brother, children against their par- ents. Even the most the innocent comment could bring the SS to your door. Some people disap- peared never to be seen again, re- ports Otto. The German people never were told the truth about what was going in the war, Otto claims, adding peo- ple were deported for listening to radio broadcasts from Switzerland, a neutral country. Those caught lis- tening to Russian radio, after the collapse of the German -Russian Pact, were never seen again. There was one Jewish family in Henry's village. One day, they were gone, presumably to a labor camp or death camp. Today, Otto says there were rumors of what was going on in such camps, but no one knew for sure. However, by the middle of 1944 it could not be hidden that the tide of the war was turning. ,Otto re- members one morning in the late spring of 1944. He was out tending his few livestock when his uncle, red-faced and exuberant, spoke in an excited whisper, "Henry, they have arrived." "Who?" the young man asked. "The British, the Americans and the Canadians," was his happy re- The last few months of the war were not easy with Allied bombers pummeling German targets. Today, Otto feels it was not necessary. the war was all but won. He vividly re- members a whole hospital block being wiped out in a nearby town, mistaken for a train depot. By the end of the war, everyone was drafted, young people, old peo- ple, the disabled and infirm. Even one man in Otto's village who had recently died was drafted. It was in a losing effort, but many" young people died in those final weeks and days of the war attempting to save the Fatherland. Otto's village was spared from the invaders when the mayor stepped in to negotiate with the Americans, poised on the outskirts with their tank artillery aimed at the building in the middle of the square. The town' was liberated on April 25, 1945, by a battalion of black soliders, Otto recalls, with white officers. MARSHALL PLAN After the war, Germany lay in ruins, as did much of Europe. But this, time, the world stepped in to offer its help and through the Mar- shall Plan billions of dollars in aid rebuilt the country and bolstered its post-war economy. It was Germa- ny's salvation, Otto claims, adding without the Marshall Plan, all of Germany would have ended up a Communist state. However, the country was divid- ed and that caused problems in it- self. When Otto had the chance to sell his family's small quarry and move to Canada to farm, he did so gladly. Although he returns fre- quently to Germany, he never has regretted the decision. He says he should write a book about his war -time experiences and perhaps he will, especially as he dabbled in journalism for a time. Like many people of his genera- tion, his memory of those days re- mains vivid. I Roll Call (Editor's' Note: A totgl of ,13 young men from Wingham paid the ulti- mate sacrifice in World War 11, some losing their lives in the dy- ing months of the conflict. lest we forget.) LESLIE 'DAIR Leslie James Adair, a member of Squadron No. 156 of the Royal Air Force was killed in action on Jan. 3, 1944. He was 21 years of age and has no known grave. Flying in a Lancaster bomber, the .path- finder force had Berlin, Germany, as its target. Adair had over 60 op- erational flights to his credit. A member of the 99th Battery, militia, he joined the Royal Canadi- an Air Force in August of 1941 as an air gunner, arriving overseas in April of 1942. Adair was on the first shuttle bombing trip from England to North Africa by way of Southern Germany and then back from North Africa by way of Italy. A . member of the Wingham United Church, Leslie Adair was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Adair of Wingham, owners of Adair Transport. PERCY BIGGS Percival Frederick Biggs was killed in an airplane accident on Dec. 16, 1942, aged 22. A militia member with the 99th Battery, Wingham, from Oct., 1939 to Aug., 1942, Biggs joined the RCAF and graduated as a wireless gunner from Winnipeg in October of 1942. He was engaged in a navi- gation training exercise when his Anson aircraft crashed into Patricia Bay in British Columbia. Biggs attended Wingham public and high schools. He was a mem- ber of the Wingham United Church and had been employed with C. Lloyd & Son. AC Biggs was pre- sented with a gift from Turnberry Township Council. He is buried in Wingham Cemetery. WILLIAM GROVES Thomas William (Bill) GPoves died in Victoria Hospital on Oct. 24, 1945. He was 25 years of age. Groves went overseas in January of 1943 with the Irish Regiment of Canada. He arrived in Italy jn De- cember of that year, spending, five months there. His. ankle ;gayq,,oirt and he was invalided back to Eng- land in June, 1944 and returned home in September of that year in poor health. Bill Groves was survived by his father, Earl, one brother and four sisters. He is buried in Wingham Cemetery. R. McKENZIE HABKIRK Ramsay McKenzie Habkirk was killed in action on Aug. 5, 1944, engaged in a special night opera- tion over enemy -occupied territory. He is buried in the Tilley-Sur- Seulles War Cemetery in Nor- mandy, France. Habkirk enlisted with the RCAF in June of 1942 and graduated as a bomb aimer from St. John, Que. and was commissioned in May of 1943. On staff at the local Bank of Commerce, he was the son of Mrs. Orville Habkirk of Kincardine and the late Mr. Habkirk. W. C. HART Wilbert Carl Hart was killed in action on Christmas Eve, 1944. He was 37 years of age and had been previously wounded in October of that year. Hart enlisted in February of 1941 and proceeded overseas in 1942 where he was posted to The Black Watch of the Royal Highland Regi- ment of Canada. He served with the fifth brigade of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in Canada, the United Kingdom and in Continental Europe. He is buried in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Nijme- gen, Holland. He was a son of Herbert and Edith May Hart and was survived by brothers Earl of Wingham and Alvin of Zetland, as well as his wife, Sara Lavinia (Durnin). Hart. WILLIAM E. KEW Born at Whitechurch , William Ernest Kew passed away on March 12, 1946, at Christie Street Military Hospital in Toronto. He was 40 years of age. Kew was a flight sergeant with the RCAF from 1941 to 1946. He was a bombing and gunnery in- structor here in Canada. He became ill in Vancouver and died in Toronto. William Kew was a member of the Wingham United Church and the Masonic Lodge. GEORGE T. KING Flight Sergeant George Thomas King was killed in action on May 24, 1942. His Hudson aircraft crashed into the sea from the RAF station at Silloth, England. He was 25 years of age and has no known grave. 1 I= a 7€owea Daily delivery to Lucknow, Teeswater, Brussels, Gorrie and all points in between. WIRE SERVICE Also Available Sunday Mornings 135 Frances St. Wingham 357-3880 Vance's Pharmacy Your Guardian Drug Store Surgical Supplies • Veterinary Supplies Lee Vance Ltd. L.E. Vance Phm. B. Wingham 357-2170 Prix! PITROCANADA Petro -Canada Produces Bob Foxton Fuels Limited Wholesale Marketer 50 North Street West Wingham, Ontario ' NOG 2W0 Tel: Wingham (519)357-2664 Toll Free: 1-800-265-3069 Fax: 357-4091 MAITLAND' ESTATES Cusaon Built Homes on Fully Serviced Lots in Wingham 357-2310 Grading • Gravel • Top Soil Since 1976 JAMES SYMES PAVING & MATERIALS ASPHALT & CONCRETE DRIVEWAYS Paving of roads, parking lots, and tennis courts BOX 54, RR5 LUCKNOW 528-3047 4,