Remembrance day 2015

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE

MERRITT LEGION REMEMBERS

The ceremony begins at 10:15 a.m. at the Civic Centre with the wreath laying ceremony to follow.

At 11 a.m. a moment of silence will be observed by those present Everyone is then invited to the Legion for an open house and light refreshments.

Veterans needing a ride please phone the Legion at 250-378-5631.

Pictures for this supplement were provided by the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives and by family members.

HONOURING NATIVE VETERANS Parade will assemble at the Shulus Anglican Church at 9:45 a.m. with the parade starting at 10:15 a.m. and finishing at the Shulus Cenotaph located at the Lower Nicola Shulus Roman Catholic Church with the wreath laying ceremony to follow.

At 11 a.m. a moment of silence will be observed by those present. Everyone is then invited to the Shulus Community Hall for a luncheon.

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mongst a sea of old, worn crosses in a graveyard overlooking Nicola Lake there is a new headstone marking the grave of a man who died many years ago.

It’s an official military marker — a unique addition to this resting place — and it honours First World War veteran Pvt. George McLean, a soldier who fought valiantly for his country.

McLean was laid to rest more than 80 years ago, but it wasn’t until this past September that a headstone recognizing his military service was placed upon his grave.

His story is one of heroism, rediscovery and vindication coming full circle thanks to memories from Upper Nicola elder Hector Stewart, and efforts from the band’s cultural historian Lynne Jorgesen, as well as Mclean’s ancestor Mel Rothenburger.

McLean was a First Nations man, born and

raised in the Nicola Valley.

His mother was the daughter of Upper Nicola Band Chief Chillihitzia, while his father, Allen McLean, was the leader of the infamous Wild McLean gang, made up of four men who were hanged in 1881 for murdering police Const.

Johnny Ussher and a sheep herder in 1879.

IN THE ARMY The five-foot-seven McLean joined the fight in Europe as a middle-aged man in his 40s, enlisting in the 172nd Battalion CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force) in October of 1916.

Pvt. McLean sailed for England almost instantly, and was transferred that December to the 54th Battalion in France.

In April of 1917, the Canadian Corps was ordered to take Vimy Ridge — a heavily fortified, sevenkilometre mountain range in northern France situated above allied lines.

This task was sure to be difficult for the Canadians

as attempts to take it by their French and English allies had failed, with casualties numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

Canadian infantry attacked at 5:30 in the morning on April 9, 1917, overrunning the Germans, charging their rifle nests and forcing the surrender of soldiers in protective dugouts.

The battle would last four grueling days.

Hill 145 was the highest and most important feature of the ridge, and it was assigned to Pvt. McLean and his fellow soldiers of the 54th.

During the battle, McLean attacked a group of enemy soldiers singlehandily, armed with about a dozen small grenades nicknamed “The Pineapple.”

In his attack, he captured 19 German prisoners on his own, and killed five more who attempted to reach a machine gun, saving a large number of casualties.

For his heroic actions, McLean was awarded the

Distinguished Conduct Medal, the second highest award available for noncommissioned officers in the First World War. Shot in the arm in the process, McLean was returned to Canada for medical treatment, and went back to British Columbia.

BACK AT HOME In an excerpt from a Kamloops newspaper article from October that year included in a Nicola Valley Museum quarterly, McLean described the event to a group of people gathered at a CPR station when his return train passed through Kamloops.

“There were two machine guns playing on us and one of our officers got hit. I pulled him out of the mess, and at that time I was close to the Germans’ dugouts. I knew there was sixty of the enemy there and I got hold of my bombs and just as I was in the act of pulling the pin my partner, who was cloae to me, got it

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FINDING A NICOLA VALLEY HERO’S RESTING PLACE in the head. Then I bombed them. And I bombed them again and again. I used nine bombs altogether and they ran like rabitts into their dugouts. After they ran into the dugout, I kept bombing them until their sergeantmajor threw up hi hands shouting, ‘Don’t throw the bomb,’ and I didn’t. He came out of the hole and handed me his automatic pistol and asked how many of there were of us and I said there were 150.”

His attack killed 19 enemy soldiers.

An article in the Merritt Herald from 1918 read: “It was a great day for Pte. McLean when he arrived at the Canadian lines with his long string of prisoners and he was accorded a magnificent reception by his officers and comrades, who were not slow to recognize the splendid work he had done.”

McLean returned to the battle where he was shot twice in the left arm, but managed to capture five more prisoners. When they ran from him for a machine gun nest, he killed them all.

From his exploits, he was nicknamed “The German Killer.”

Victory was assured by the brave Canadian soldiers after about four grueling days of warfare in No Man’s Land and terrible conditions in the trenches.

It’s a battle that has become known as watershed moment in the creation of Canada, and it was a defining moment for McLean as well, as his heroics for which he earned the DCM became the stuff of legend.

“George’s story was the vindication of the family name,” Rothenburger said.

After the war, McLean returned to the Nicola Valley to work as a rancher.

McLEAN’S DEATH He died just 17 years later, his body found the morning of Sept. 7, 1934 in the bushes outside the old Munro barn.

An article in the Merritt Herald from when he died read that McLean had been seen around town late the night before, and his tethered horse was noticed standing alone the night before. It said he likely died of suffocation and natural causes while alone in the bush.

In a book he wrote on the Wild Mclean gang, Rothenburger says that McLean spent the previous night, as he often did, getting drunk, and given that it wasn’t very cold out yet, may have passed out, thrown up and choked on his own vomit.

An unfitting end for a war hero.

“George was a man of powerful physique and was of a likeable type,” wrote the Herald article.

McLean died at the age of 60, and was survived by a son at Quilchena, a married daughter in Vernon and a brother in Washington State.

Upon his death, the Canadian Legion offered its services in arranging a funeral, but some of Mclean’s First Nations friends took his body to be buried in the cemetery where it now rests on the Upper Nicola Reserve instead.

There was no military funeral, nor prominent headstone to mark the final resting place of a man who served his country proud.

Mclean was buried under a wooden cross – his name and year he died scratched into it.

In the 90s a flash flood washed away some of the

headstones in the graveyard.

Restoration efforts were taken to place those headstones as close to the burial plots as possible.

Many still lay atop of their graves today, and it is where McLean’s cross was found.

REDISCOVERY One day while Upper Nicola elder Hector Stewart was talking about George McLean in a medical clinic, the story that there was no knowledge of where McLean was buried sprang to life.

Questions surrounding where McLean was buried eventually reached the former Kamloops Daily News in 2013.

Rothenburger was contacted and told there was interest in finding the grave for a military headstone, which would be erected through Veterans Affair’s Last Post Fund program.

A relative would need to file an application, however, and Rothenburger was it.

McLean’s father was the brother of his great-grandfather.

Finding the grave however was easier said than done, and Rothenburger and teamed up with Upper Nicola Band historian Lynne Jorgesen to findMcLean.

Jorgesen said that over time, people with the knowledge of where McLean was buried eventually passed on themselves.

“Over the year, the record of where he was buried kind of got lost,” Rothenbuger told the Herald.

Looking through old documents, Jorgesen was able to find a map of the cemetery and pinpointed McLean’s grave.

Last summer, the two

went to the cemetery with some other band members and after about a half hour were able to find the grave which had no marker except for a decrepit-looking cross atop the grave.

“I actually got down on my hands and knees, and got as close to it as I could and was able to make out the very faint writing,” Rothenburger said.

“It was really an exciting moment.”

“It was a chain of really fascinating coincidences that led to George being recognized with a marker,” Jorgesen said.

In addition to finding McLean, the search also turned up a direct relative who grew up not knowing, but always curious about her grandfather.

Alfreda McLean was born in 1955, well after her grandfather had past away.

Living in the Okanagan community of Lake Country today, she told the Herald she contacted Rothenburger and Jorgesen when she saw some of the stories written about the search for George and got in contact with Rothenburger.

She said finding where her grandfather was buried meant a lot to her and was an indescribable experience.

“Tears of joy,” she said.

In September, Alfreda and some of her family members got to experience seeing their ancestor honoured with a military headstone from Veterans Affairs, properly acknowledging a Nicola Valley war hero.

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n the surface, it’s a classic love story.

Andrea Rogers met the man who would become her her husband while she was at the movies. It’s not such an uncommon way for a couple to meet in the 1940s — except that it was in Holland, and he was one of the Canadian soldiers who helped liberate the country from Nazi occupiers.

Andrea had never seen a film in the theatre before. She was too young to go before the war broke out, when she was about 11 years old, and during the occupation the only films that were played were for the Nazi soldiers.

So when Andrea suggested sneaking in to one, her cousin agreed. They mingled with some of the soldiers in line, and one of them agreed to escort Andrea in. His name was Norman, and after the film, she took him home to meet her family.

“I said, ‘Grandma, this is the man I’m going to marry.’” said Rogers. “She kind of looked and she said, ‘How do you know?’ I said, ‘I just know.’ And I did marry him. I knew that was the man i wanted to marry, so I did.”

They spent the summer together, travelling around the countryside of her hometown of Apeldoorn, mostly on foot — the Germans had taken most of the bicycles during the retreat.

“I dragged him everywhere,” she said.

“He said, ‘Well, we do a lot of marching in the army — I’m glad I’m good at marching!’”

At the end of August, he left back to England, but they continued to write to each other for three years, until finally one of his letters to her contained a proposal. She accepted, and in 1955 they moved to Merritt.

LIVING IN WAR Even then she was just a teenager, but by the time she met Norman she had already lived through the hellish trauma of wartorn Europe.

“You were never at ease, you were always on edge, wondering what was going to happen next,” she said. “One morning I went to school and somebody had murdered somebody, and he was lying in our doorway at the foot of our stairs. I had to step over him and go to school and it wasn’t actually until I got to school that it really hit me and I just stood there and I threw up and threw up and threw up.”

Andrea said that there was a lot of hostility even between Dutch people, and some were outright traitors. Ugly things happened that wouldn’t have happened otherwise, and no one knew what to expect next.

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member of the Dutch resistance. He recruited her to run messages, calling her “orange parakeet” a reference to the colours of the Dutch royalty.

She recounted her adventures ferrying messages for the Dutch underground movement. “It was scary because it was always after curfew, after dark, and there were no streetlights — nothing,” she said. “Sometimes it involved climbing a roof and jumping across. The things I did in those days, I can’t believe that I did these things! i must have been daft!”

They had Jewish neighbours that were taken. “At first they took the two boys, the two sons,” she recalled.

They were in their early 20’s, and their mother was left by herself. Then one day Andrea’s father heard she had been picked up as well. He managed to get to the railway station and bribe a guard to free her before she was sent to Germany.

They hid her in a secret room in a house for about a year. During that time she had a stroke, and of course she couldn’t leave the room to get medical attention. “We just kept her as clean as we could, kept her fed, and I used to read to her,” said Rogers, who affectionately referred to her as Frau Wolfberg. “It gave her some comfort, but she was there by herself all day.

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One day I came in and they had ransacked it and knocked down the walls and she was gone, and we never saw her again. I was so fond of her.”

But through all of the violence, starvation and political tension there were good times, too. Rogers said she learned how to do simple things for herself, like make corn starch, and make do with very little.

“Any piece of spare paper we could find we would cut into Ws — that was the initial of the queen, Wilhelmina — just to razz them!” she said. “We’d just lose them out of our pockets as we were walking down the street and stuff like that. The silly things small children do.”

She said that was one of the fun things they did, and it wasn’t just fun, it was necessary. “It was sometimes quite hilarious, too,” she said. “We had a lot of laughs. You had to have laughs or else you wouldn’t exist — you couldn’t exist. You had to have something to release the pressure because everybody was under pressure. Really severe pressure.”

LONG TERM EFFECTS The way Andrea describes the horrible conditions of wartime Holland stands in stark contrast with her happy and contented life with Norman. But even after the war, coming to Canada and settling down, there were emotional and physical side effects from those days. Rogers contracted brucellosis, an infectious disease spread from animals to people through unpasteurized milk, something she had to drink a lot of during the war.

Among the myriad of negative side effects this disease carries is miscarriage.

Rogers called it a “war souvenir.”

And there are emotional side effects as well. Rogers said she’s been unable to cry since the war, even after her lifelong companion died in 2002.

“I’ve never been able to cry about him,” she said.

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After Norman passed, she said she stood in the middle of the kitchen and wondered what to do next. “As far as I was concerned, my life was over,” she said. “During the war we learned to bottle it all up and not show emotion, and it has really affected me the rest of my life. I can’t cry any more.”

REMEMBERING TOGETHER The war was such a big part of their lives that they used to give talks at the schools around the Nicola Valley for Remembrance Day. “The two of us worked with the schools in Merritt and Douglas Lake and the area, and we used to give talks on Remembrance Day assembly and then all the kids would come look at Norm’s medals,” she laughed. “They would point to his medals and ask,

‘What’s this for? What did you do to get this?’ They wanted the story. So we did a lot of that — we went to every school, and then I’d tell them a little bit about what life was like during the war.”

Norm was an avid legionnaire, and sometimes carried a flag in the parade.

“I’ve had such a marvellous life with him, and he was such a jokester — always pulling my leg,” she said, laughing. “He was really a darling. I was so lucky — of all the people in the Netherlands, I had lots of suitors, but Norm stuck by me. Once I met Norm, I was hooked.”

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NICOLA VALLEY RADIATOR 250-378-1366 2775 Marian Avenue, Merritt, B.C.

Tommy Williams

Walter Forsyth

William J. Koller

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Remembering Those Who Served Remembering, Thanking &

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Ernie Sing

Remember those who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

Erik Sigurd and Thorald Teit

2064 Coutlee Ave

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On Remembrance Day… We recognize the many sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform both today and throughout our nation’s history.

Thank You, Veterans.

Fabian LaRochelle

Faye Gay

Frank Archer

Frank Dodding

Fred Dodding

Fred Gay

Merritt Library 1691 Garcia Street

Open Tuesday - Saturday www.tnrdlib.ca

Fred Geater

Fred McDougall

Gaylord Blankenship

George B. Armstrong

George Hazlehurst

George Hogg

Thank you to our war vets.

1951A Garcia Avenue • 250-378-6808 George Hunter

Harold Newman

George Kinvig

Harry J. Winny

Gordon Curnow

Harry Purvis

Gordon Geater

Harold Hunter

Harold Mosley

Henry Castillou

Henry Koller

Henry Ralph Blumenauer

REMEMBRANCE DAY Honouring sacrifice in war.

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On November 11th, remember those who served.

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Remembering all those who served from the Nicola Valley

6 returned men L-R: Ken Moyes, Gordon Cameron, Percy Boyd, Maurice Hunter, Billy Drybourgh, Ronnie Laidlaw

Al Hartwell

Alan Leonard

Albert E. (Dick) Stapleton

Alec Cousin Jr.

Alexander Watson Lonie

Allan Eagles

Allan Leonard

Alphonse Garcia

Andy Garcia

Annie Lauder

Antoine Moses

Archie Allan

Archie Hardy Sr.

Tom McGrath

Archie McDougal

Arthur Monroe Fraser

Bart Dodding

Bill Berkley

Barney Stirling

Austin Williams

Bernard and Frank Dunnigan

Bill Palagain

Bill & Jim Dunnigan

Brian Dustin

Cacuse Garcia

Bill Voght

Billy McLeod

Royal Canadian Legion In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago We li lived, dawn, saw sunset glow, W d ffelt l d l Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields.

- John McCrae

MERRITT HERALD Ph: 250.378.4241 250..37 Fax: 250-378-6808 ww w www.merrittherald.com 2090 Grani Granite nite Ave., A P.O. Box 9, Merritt, B.C.

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At work in your Community The Royal Canadian Legion (1926) is Canada’s largest non governmental service organization open to membership for a Canadians, sharing in the commitment of “Remembrance” and strong, united Canada.

The Legion contributes over $3 Million every year supporting community health, social, educational and heritage programs, Àlling a void in essential community services.

•Acts of Remembrance •Spinoza Bears for sick children •UBC Chair of Family Practice •Community medicine in under serviced areas •Special medical equipment

•Geriatric nursing bursaries •Emergency preparedness & response •Support of community food banks •A vast array of community charities

The Legion is the largest single charitable contributor supporting health, housing, independent living and social programs for Veterans and Seniors.

•Affordable & assisted living housing •Furnishings & equipment for long term care facilities •Meals-on-Wheels •Medical transportation & hospital visiting

•Enabling independent living •Specialized motor coach tours •B.C. Senior Games

Uses for Poppy Donations Money donated during Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Poppy-Remembrance Campaign is placed in Poppy Trust Funds. Some of the many ways this money is used is to improve life for people in your community include: •Providing assistance to needy ex-service members and their dependants.

•Supporting medical training and research, and the provision of community medical appliances which will assist in the care of veterans.

•Funding the purchase, construction and maintenance of housing and care facilities for elderly and disabled people.

•Providing bursaries to children and grandchildren of veterans.

•Supporting drop-in centres for seniors and funding meals-on-wheels service.

If we do not remember past & present efforts, our soldier’s sacriÀces become meaningless. The hope for a brighter future around the world starts with remembering past wars & learning from humanity’s mistakes.

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