The Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-07-06, Page 7ele
THURSDAY, JULY 6th, 1914
The Lucia Sentinel, Luc -1m�%! Ontario
tilATII#THE TII0OPS
Fred Steward of the - Arrny
Postal Corps at Montreal and
,,Mrs. Steward, are visiting with
Ihis parents, lat. and Mrs. Chs.
Steward.
Mr. and 1Irs. James Johnston
received word a, few days ago
that; their son Clair - is with the
Canadian forces . in Franee.:
• Section Officer Mary L Philip
of the Women's Division of the
R.C.AY. at Rockeliffe ,spent last
week ' with - her mother, Mrs.
Lydia Philip, at. South Kinloss
Manse;
Round Up Three Prisoners •-•
Letters. have : been, received
from a number of members of
the 99th Wingham Battery who
the Royal Canadian Navy, as a are with the invasion . forces in
member of the navy band. ' France. Tapper Gray -'-writes that
LAC. Jim Henderson of the he. and "Porky" Mitchell had a
Howard Johnston with the
Canadian Navy at Halifax spent
a few days„here this week with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. M.
Johnston. -
Joins ,Navy Band
Kenneth McKenzie, son f, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy McKenzie. of RiP
ley, 'left on Thursday. Morning
for Toronto where he enlisted in
R.C.A.F. at Cape St. James, B.C.,
is spending a' month's furlough at
the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jehn, W. Henderson.
PO. tuart Collyer who is an
R. C. A. F. instructor at Jarvis
spent the week -end at the home
of his mother,, Mrs. Sarah, Coll-
yer. He was accompanied by. Mrs.
Collyer and two sow Teddy and
• Thommy who are remaining for
the week.
In 'Same Flight
As Jack Bowers
• PO. John. K. MacKenzie, •son
of Mrs. Wm. MacKenzie of town,
who has been overseas with the
R.C.A.F. since mid-May, spent a
recent furlough in Edinherough,
• Scotland and in a letter to his
Mother described some of the
• highlights of this visit. John is
in the saine flight as PO. Jack
• Bowers, son of Mr: and Mrs.
Garnet- Hehderson •
bit of fun. rounding up three Ger-
man prisoners.. "Porky" got hit
with a few fragrnents 'from- a
mortar bomb, but didn't go off
duty.
Wounded In France
Mrs. Garnet Henderson Of town
(nee Evelyn Taylor) received
, word on Saturday that her hus-
band •had been wounded in
• France., Garnet suffered a fract-
ured jaw caused by -a ex:
plosion and Was taken back to
• . England for treatment. • He is
with the Provost Corps.• ,
DAUGHTER OF HURON LADY
• ARRIVES OVERSEAS
• Mks. A. C. Hamilton of Huron
Township received word • last
• week of ,the arrival overseas Of
her daughter Emma, Mrs. John
Barrett of Oakville.
• Mrs. Barrett is a graduate
nurse of quelph General Hospi-
tal arid has gone to England tin.-
• der arrangements by the British
Government, where she will do
emergency hospital nursing: Her
husband, Capt. John Barrett is
With the Canadian forces in Eng-
land.
Mrs., Barrett's brother, Andre*
•' Hamilton. is seeing action in Italy
•with the Perth Regiment:
• Harold Purves Is ,
Home From Overseas
aelmom..•••••...
• Harold Purves- who has .been
overseas with the Canadian army
for upwards to three years, ar-
rived home ten days ago, due to.
a lowering of his medical cate-
gor-y. Harold is on a thirty -day
• leave at the end of which he will
• report at London for a medical
cheelt-up, which will determine
whether or not he will receive
his discharge. •
'Harold and Mrs. Purves are
visiting here at the home of his
• mother, WS.. Essie Purves.
Harold Made the return At -
Untie crossing on a fast troop
'ship and was at sea only seven
days., Asked about receipt of cig-
arettes -from-local-organizations...-
he said they were certainly ap-
•litireciated, and estimated that he
had received about fifty per cent
of the smokes sent him. English
•. cigarettes, which they dori'l fancy
cost -them 56 cents, for a package,
of 20. ,
Harold said they were treated
very well by 'the people of the
Old Country and life there was
121=Fgsli tetheir •Way of ivirg .
. •
Roy Renwick, son of Mrs. Js.
Kirby of Teeswater, has ben
promoted to the rank of squadron
leader in the R.C.A.F. Roy is at
present stationed at Yarmouth,
Jim, Stewart who waswith the
R.C.A.F. overseas and recently
returned home due to a lowering
of his, medical category, has re-
ceived his discharge from the ser-
,
Member of Caterpillar Club
•Mr.. Ezra Wellwood of White,
church , has received word that
FADE SEVEN
It was learned here on Tues-
day that Elliott "Tilly" Webster
was in hospital overseas with a
leg wound. No details are avail-
able as to where or under what
circumstances he was wOunded.
Harold Hackett, son of Wm.
Hackett and the late Mrs. Hack-
ett, had' been seeing plenty of
action in Italy where he is at-
taehed to a Canadian armored
tank delivery regiment: He en
listed Originally in the Kent Reg-
iment. Harold's wife resides, ,in
Fergus. •'<7 '
his son Norman,' who is a :pm- Is A .Big FelloW Now . '
oner of war, ' has been made a Mr. and Mrs.' John -T. Carter
member of the Caterpillar Club, have received a letter. from "their
an international, organization 1134"; LAC. Lloyd:Elliott of Moss -
composed solely of -these who
have saved their lives by means
of parachutes. Mr. Welwood Will
,shortly receive the official in-
signia of the . club; which is a
small gold lapel pin in the form
of a caterpillar, with his name
and the date of the emergency
jump engraved thereon. ' —. A1 -
,Times.
vance
bank, Sask., in -Which he says he
expects to be posted overseas
this fall. Lloyd is now six feet,
three inches tall and weighs .190
pOunds. Lloyd recalls his boy-
hood days spent with his foster
parents, and gives Mr. and Mrs.
Carter much praise for the child-
hood training and guidance. he
received from them.
With Invasion Forces
Jack MacDonald of town is
with the Canadian invasion forces
in France according to airmail
letters recetired, by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John MacDonald,
the latter part -of the week. Jack
had little to say about the "big
show". He hasn't been in con-
tact with any of the boys from
home for some time.
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ASHFIELD• NOTES
Mrs. Sproul of Goderich visit7 ,.
• ed with Mr. , :and Mrs. Albert
Ilelin a few days-laSt"Weeki •
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Hogan
and family of Toronto spent the -
week -end with his, parents and
brothers hefe.
Miss Frances Gilmore, London,
•spent the week -end at her . home.
Mrs. John Irwin of •the 2nd
Con. of Huron and Mrs: A. Heim
and Mrs. Sproul visited with Mrs.
W. 0. Hunter Saturday afternoon.
• Miss Helen, Gilmore of Hamil-
ton is spending her vacaticifi at
her home.
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• F.._ OVERSEAS SERVie
•Now that I can go I'm not going to stick around and
let the other fellows do it.
• Bill and Jack went over la' st week, and Fred's been
over there a year. Now it's my chance.
It's going to take months of training before I can
get fighting -fit, so I'd better get moving
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today.
Yes sir! I'm going now, to tell Dad and
Mom that I'm on my way to sign up.
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