The Huron Expositor, 1978-11-09, Page 9fi
THE HURON 'EXPOSITOR, N VEMB
Memorial
Service
emembrance Day
Seaforth Branch of the RoYal Canadian Legion will
observe Remembrance Day with a Service at the
Cendtaph, Victoria Park
Saturday, November 11
at 10:30 ta.m.
The Legion extends a cordial welcome to all School
Children, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Cubs, Council of
Seaforth, Tuckersmith and McKillop, all other
organizations, and the general public, to join ii1 the.
Service. -
Representatives of OrganizatiOns who are presenting
Wreaths are asked to be at the Legion Hall at 11):15 to
pick up wreaths. •
The parade will leave. the Legion Hall at 10:20,
headed by the Seaforth District High School Girls'
Trumpet Band, arriving at the Cenotaph at 10:30.
SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE
10:20 — PARADE TO CENOTAPH
10:25 DEPLOY COLOURS
10:30 — 0' CANADA •
10:35 — HYMN: "0 God, OUr Help
in Ages Past'
1,0:40— A PROMISE OF REMEMBRANCE
Prayer Rev. J. Vanslyke
SCRIPTURES: Rev. Robert Roberts
ADDRESS: Rev. T.A.A. Duke
DEDICATION OF WREATHS
Rem, H.J.Laragh
11:00 — LAST POST
TWO MINUTES •' SILENCE
REVEILLE
PLACING OP WREATHS
Seaforth Branch 156
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
EORGEMIIIER p CLAIR CAMPIIPLL
' President GRANT CURRAli Special Events
Seeretaty
Correction
John Willems of Dublin
was fined $28 in provincial
court in Seaforth recently for
making a turn not in safety.
The Huron Expositor
erroneously reported Mr.
Willem's address as McKil-
lop Township instead of the
village of Dublin:-
We regret any iticovi
ce
eti
ien this error may have
caused,
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For: any used chair
regirdiess of the con-
dition on the purchase
of a new chesterfield•
on request from council,
' I hereby proclaim
, Sat. November 11
as Remembrance Day
and request the citizens and
businessmen of Saforth to
observe the same, by closing
all pigces of business from
10:a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
Elizabeth Cardno
Mayor
, 4..
weekly meat coupons so they could have a
speciatinel on Sunday. The meat tbatwas
available depended on the part of Britiap
where you lived at the time - in Suffolk,,
Mrs, Coornbi' home, the meat was usually
lamb,
rationed in their part of the country.
The rest of the time, the family ate a
rood deal of fish, one' food Which wasn't
The troops .
The first Christmas of tne war, many of
,theloyvestoft"families took in two or three
British soldiers who couldn't get home to
their families to spend the holiday with
them. Then, as the war showed no signs of
coming to an end, more and more troo,ps
poured into the East Anglia area, including
the Canadian v forces, Czeehsolovakian
units, the Free French Army, Australians
and eventually•the Americans.
"You- name them and we had them!"
Mrs. Coombs said.
One pf the Canadian soldiers stationed in
the town was Cleave Coombs, a member
of the second battalion of Canadian
engineers.
Mr. Coombs was billetted near Peg's
home and the couple met and.married in
1941. From then •on they led the kind of ,
commuter existence common to many November wartime marriages, Mrs. Coombs stayed at
her• famiLy home in .Low.estoft and her.' 1 th husband was stationed in a variety of .
places.`.-
° , Whenever Mr Coombs had leave, the In tidy fields, the. ToPPY
couple met each other to spend a few d ays grows.
° togethOr. As November. comes once
Mrs. Cootribs said she was the only girl more.
in her town who married a, Canadian- To remind us of the silent
soldier, but a number of the girls married row- •
Americans stationed in the area. " Of crosses, on
When the war ended, Cleave Coombs
•
- EIV Mice Oibbl
'They won another peace for us
And sacrificed their lives
• They,should have been alive today
With joys. and cares and wives."
4 November .11th Is traditionally a time of
remembering.
Iii the words of Peg and Cleave Coombs,
who saw the war from a frOnt row seat,
Remembrance Day is a "time to think of all
therthings that did happen, all the boys
that didn't come back and all the poor souls
who, are „down in the hospital
(Westminister,Vertans' Hospital)" ,
Also, as both Peg. Coombs and Barbara
Scott, both British war brides and
members of the Seaforth Legion Ladies
'will YOUR
FAMILY
trim
YeA, Smyth's Shoes -
-, faas-the right hoot for.
For women we
terry wide shafts,
high• dress, and low
casual. Fcr men and
'children warmth , and
;40rability are at the
••;.,top of• the list. Ideal
:• for working, playing .
and all outdoors.
Whatever the •look
Smyth's Shoes has it
phis, comfort and
quality along with
• personalized fittings
'by a competent staff
Auxiliary said, Remembrance Day is ,a dine
to hope and ptay that war never happens
again.
Peg Coombs of Egmondville„ 'was a
teenager living in , the small town of'
Lowestoft in East Anglia, on the British
coast, 21 miles across from Franck, when
World War 11 broke out In 1939.
On the Sunday war was declared, Mrs..
Coombs remembers the first air raid siren
blew at noon.a.warning that enemy planes
Were already in the area.
Although the British were expecting
war, Mrs. Coombs recalls there weren't
any air-raids in her town when the sirens'
rang for the first time, so the people simply
poured into the streets. '
Bombing
'Later, even after shelters were built,
many people preferred to wait out the raids
in their own homes. Mrs. Coombs said the •
only rule was, if you couldn't go to a
'shelter, put a large table near ,an outside ,
wall and get under that. That way,, if the
house was bombed, the rescue crews and
home guard would know where to 'start
digging to look for survivors.
As the sound of sirens became common-
plac in Lowestoft, Mrs. Coombs said life
we On much as usual, "most everybody_
liv d front day to day. 'You had to:"
Many, like Mrs. Coombs, volunteered
for fire watches; older men in the town
ioined the home guard and many families
made room in their homes for children
evacuated from London.-.
Mrs. Coombs said their town •welcomed
over 300 children from the city, many of
them from the Dr. Barnardo Homes or
el se eh drew_ from poorer sections in the
- east end of 1.4ndon. The,, children were
billetted in loca 'omes for the duration of
the war, and man elcomed the chance to
live with a family for the first time in their
lives.
When Lowestoft was bembed, the most
dangerous.time of the day was early in the
morning At, night, the enemy planes flew
over the town and dropped their cargoes on
London. Mrs. Coombs said their town
always knew when London was being
severely bombed 'because they heard the
enemy planes "when they came over the
top."
In the morning, the planes dropped the
last of their load on the coastal towns of
England, dropping them "anywhere to get
rid of them", Peg Coombs said.
But despite the bombings, none of the
cownspeople cleft for safer territory.
Old bulldogs
"I guess we the British were like a lot of
old bulldogs, once we get our teeth, into
someplace, we don't leave it," she s'
Another part ofthe war familiar to
anyone in Britain at the time was he
rationing. ,
Instead of fresh eggs, people ate egg
powder and meat became' a Sunday treat.
Mrs. Coombs said her family saved their
sented the keynote address
on "Who Does What" in
recreation stressing that big-
ger is 'not always better and
• the need for factual in-
formation and well organized
businesS procedures. The
successof a recreation com-
mittee, he said, is dependent .
on the' decisions made • by
that committee and how thy
are carried out.
• IIIIIIII MIN NMI" NUM
'76 Le Mans 4 door V8
'76 Chev. Caprice full power, and
air conditioning
* '75 Old 98 full power
Garvey .of Kincardine, Mike
Dymond of Goderich, Clair
Fowler and Bill Coulter of
Port Elgin, Clare Christie of
Owen Sound. Marg Caviller,
and Marilyn Struthers of
Ruth Wolfe of Clifford, Jim
Zettel, Hanover and Bud
Bitton, Al ,Sinclair, Melanie
McLaughlin, Consultants,. •
Ministry of Culture and
Grey-Bruce Arts Council. •
MINIM MIMI NM 11111111
2-75 Chev. Impalas 4 door, 1 with
air,. without
'74 Cataline'\, •
Numerous 1973 Chevs and Pontiacs
STATION WAGONS
'76 Pontiac Le Mail Wagon
TRUCKS
'77 Chev ton pick up
'76 Dodge D600, cab and chassis,
'75 Midge 1300 cab and 'chassis
'75 Louisville /SU LN eals and
chassis
'73 Ford % ton pick up
'73 Ford 1 ton cab and chassis
Number, of '71 - '76 Chev and Ford
vans
Egmondville Mr. and Mrs.
Clayton Dennis Livonia
Michigan and Mrs., Ann
Brown., Galt and Mrs. and
Mrs Micheal McAfee of
Downsview and Jon and
Colleen all visited at Mrs.
Gerry Praisers over the
weekend.
False alarm
Lost Wednesday's fire. in
Seaforth proved to been false
alarni. Fire Chief Harry' flak
said the fire was at the 'dump
site and was mistakenly
turned in as an afartn.
BAUER SKATES
Peg Coombs in
her Legion
Auxiliary Uniform
FOR THE FAMILY!.
Trade In'your old pair
for a now pair
4.11A104
OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS' MUM VISA
About fifty attended the
' Lake • Huron Zotie of
0.,M.R.A. annual conference
held Oct. 28, in Goderich at
the High School. The Con-
ference was chaired by Pre-
sident, Jack Bird of Owen
Sound. -Jack Riddell, Pro-
vincial metuherof-palliament
brought greetings from the
Ontario governent. and
Mayor Shewfelt' eleomed
dOegates to Gdderich. Jim
Xhaltners of Welland spoke
on behalf of O.M.R.A.
K,W. Robinson R.D.M.R.
(F) of Peterborough' ere-
Composed and Written by Minnie Noakes
Sept. 1977
The mournful sound of a tolling bell,
Echoes through the NOvernber air. .
If .sounds for those, our bdys who fell
And rest in peace, over there.
"A war to end all wars," 'they said,
Back in nineteen and eighteen.
How soon they forgot the honoured dead,
War was 'declared again.
It.seems like only yesterday
We said farewell to Dad.
In Flanders Fields, or so they say,
He, lies among the honoured dead.
Now' it's another generation
War's boim declared again.
"Stop Hitler .and his abomination,
Make the old world safe again'."
The eleierth hour
Our husbands, brothers, cousins and all
Rushed to fight in' freedom's 'name.
Too many,,thousands of them did fall,
Their reward; a grave withoiii a name.,
Remembrance day! Was it worth it all?
If, only one day in the year
We pause to salute and to recall
Our debt to them so very dear?
Until we stamp our hate and greed
And bring in trust and love,
understanding and tolerance we need
And help for God above;.
Toll on Eleventh Hour bell ,
For our loved ones over there;
And who of us can ever tell
Sometime, the whole wide, world will care.-
.4/
50 attend OMRA iconference
Four participant work-
shops Covered topics of (1)
Who does What in the
Directed , Comriaunity. (2)
The Real Role of the Non-
Directed Recration Commit-
tee: (3) Municipal Re-
creation and the Arts and,
jlesource people for the
workshops included Dave
Wenger and Elmer Wick of
Mount Forest, Gord Me-
BANK RATE FINANCING
on all models-new and used .
Come .to Brussels Manors
See Selection •
USED CARS
'76 "Buick Century, 4 dr. sedan
'76 Pontiac Parisienne
Brougham 4 dr.
2-'78 Chev. Impalas 4 dr,
'78 Olds Cutlass 2 dr.
'78 Chevelle 6 cyl, 4 d
'78 Chevy Nova 6 cyl. 4 d.
'78 Parisienne Brougham 4 d
'78 Dodge Diplomat 2 d
'78 Pontiac Cataline 4 d.
'77 Oldsmobile Cutlass, 4 door, with
air
was demobbed in 1945, but Peg Coombs.,,,
-wasn't able- to get transportation to Ida :The pick of the crop, are
Canada for ten months. buried there. -
When she did come, in April of 1946, it That peace, could again
'on the •ship the ile De France. The
niers on the ship included 400 rather
preInva
lands, throughout most
war brides and 4,000 troops and. Peg all the world,
bs says laughingly, "We were sure, From air, and land, and
ted.", ' 4 sail.
T hip landed at Halifax and then the .
brid boarded • the famous "Brides It's 'up to all, this present
Specs • " the train which ran between day.
Halifax and Toronto. To bow, in humble Grace.
Then make sure the price,
that they did pay.;
wWhich was God guided,
was not a waste.
shore.
With reat respect the flag
must fly.
At ha mast, this
November ay.
That the pirit of peace, 'be
held on gh.
And ever, fade away.
Bob Hulley
Over 40,000 war brides came to Canada.
Mr- Coombs, who met his wife in
Toronto, said henever saw so many women
in his life - "all looking scared." For some
of the Women, the trip was 'in vain - the
men they had married in Britain didn't
mine to`the staC31<io meet them.
Peg..Combs adis she was, hernesick
after the move teraanada and in 1947 the
couple returned to England for three years,
where •their son Christorpher was born. But
eventoally the C6ombS came back to
Seaforth and now Peg Coombs feels this is
her home - "and why shouldn't we, the
country's been awfully good to us?"
Looking back, Peg Coombs said the war
brought the people of Britain a lot closer
together - "you spoke to pelvic up the road
you'd never talked to before."
'But most of the time, Mrs. 'Coombs
prefers to forget the war years.
"You try to forget it, but this time of
the year you don't!" she said. "Wo don't
(Legion members) talk about these things
all year long, but somehow on Re-
membrance Day you reminisce
Chesterfield
SALE!.
on Brand • Names such as
Kroehler, House of Braemore
distant
For Peg Coombs, Barbara' Scott and ,
other members olthe ladies auxiliary, one •
of the most poignant reminders of the war
are the men who sit day in and day out in
London's Wesftninster Hospital,.
Only recently, the Seaforth Public School
choir ,visited the hospital with some of the
Legion Ladies, and Peg Coombs said the
veterans Were thrilled - some of thenviuSt
touched the childrene hair' because it had
been so long since they'd had any contact
with children.
For the veterans, 'iorne-shellzshocked,
some permanently physically handicapped,
the war isn't 'something that ended over 30,
years ago.
For these men, the war was yester day,
for in a sense their life outside Hospital
walls ended then.
Peg Coombs thinks these men are very
real symbols of why we must remember.
We •wouid like to thank them
For our freedom that they won
So now we have Remembrance Day
For those whose day is done.
Amanda Wilkins, Grade 8, Kincardine.
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