The Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-11-04, Page 35List of deceased war veterans growing ever longer
Canada's war veterans are slowly disap-
pearing. The average age of Second World
War veterans is 66 years, and the lists of
deceased veterans that appear in Legion
Magazine every month are getting longer.
What does that mean for The Royal
Canadian Legion Service Bureau, which
was founded after the First World War to
help veterans get the disability pensions
provided by the Federal Government?
Does it mean that the Service. Bureau,
which is funded in part by donations made
during the annual Poppy Campaign, will
no longer be needed?
The Legion says that's not the case. The
number of veterans may be shrinking, but
they still number more than 650,000 and
- the bureau will be needed for a long time
simply to look after their increasing needs
and the needs of their dependents. But the
.bureau's service officers, who provide all
of their services at no charge to the appli-
cant, are seeing numerous younger clients
these days — including some who are only
in their 20s.
They are Canada's peacetime ser-
vicemen, and even though they have not
" gone to war they are still eligible for
disability pensions for injuries suffered
while on duty. The service officers help
them find their way through the maze of
government legislation and will also repre-
sent them before the appropriate govern-
ment board or tribunal.
And even though it is peacetime, injuries
suffered while on military duty can be
plentiful — in recent years as many as 23
servicemen have been killed in accidents
in one year, and many more have been
injured.
Those accidents mean that the Legion's
Service Bureau will be needed long after
the war veterans are gone. In facts the
bureau will be one of the major legacies
Canada's veterans will leave for their
peacetime counterp9rts.
Five past presidents of Legion Branch 109. Left to right: Neil Shaw, Eric Johnston (also a
Past Presidents past Zone C-1 Commander), George Low, Robert Chapman (Zone Commander C-1, 1982-83)
and Dve McMillan, a charter member of Branch 109.
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