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REMEMBRANCE DAY RECOGNIZING THE SACRIFICES OF OUR SOLDIERS
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dust, threw our mail or food out to us and on the road he went. No sooner had he gone by there’d be one or two shells coming down. If it wasn’t for the walls of the house that were about three-feet thick of stone, we wouldn’t have made it through the day.” MacDonald served on the same flash spotting troop with the man who would have become his brother-in-law, but Jack Vassar
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On a Saturday night in late fall of 1940, along with many of his friends, Bob MacDonald enlisted with the Canadian Armed Forces. He joined the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, also known as the Eddies, at age 18. MacDonald was one of more than 1.1 million Canadian men and women who served in World War II. “There are so many stories to tell about war, but not many happy ones,” said MacDonald, who has lived in Powell River for 36 years. Now 96, MacDonald sometimes becomes emotional and breaks down when asked to talk about the war, but he said it is important to have the stories documented before his memory fades, as there are few veterans left. The Eddies were with the 1st Canadian Division that was part of the invasion of Sicily and the long, bloody Italian campaign from 1943 to 1944. MacDonald shipped out to England in 1941 and then spent another 14 days at sea while bound for Algiers. “I was sicker than hell all the way; you can imagine,” he said. “We could have baths, but it had to be in saltwater pumped from the
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sea. I had a hammock and some fellows slept on the floor or on tables. I was dirty all those days from England to Africa. God, the smell.” After a month in Africa, MacDonald fought in the invasion of Sicily. Once at Sicily, MacDonald became a flash spotter, a member of a 10-man observation unit that calculated enemy positions. He also carried a Bren light machine gun. As observers, they spotted enemy mortar, machine guns or artillery flashes. “You’d get a good reading on it,” said MacDonald, “then our headquarters would phone artillery headquarters and within minutes they’d bring the fire down.” The soldiers always worked in the dark and were surrounded by disease. Hospitals were filled with sick people. “So many chaps came down with malaria and typhus,” he said. MacDonald said Sicily and Italy were dusty and dirty places. “We would miss the bath detail a number of times and you’d go on maybe a month before you had a wash or a bath,” he said. Dusty roads from tank and truck traffic could be deadly, inching along Italy’s narrow and treacherous single-track roads. “You wouldn’t travel during the day because the dust cloud would bring down fire,” said MacDonald. “We had a chap, a driver, who would bring our rations and mail. He came down the road to beat heck raising
died in the Battle of Ortona. “I was asleep at the time,” said MacDonald. “We were in a camouflaged slit trench and these other chaps were being brought in by the infantry through a minefield to our location to relieve us. It was darkness, you couldn’t do it in the daylight. It was a cool night in the fall and it was raining. We arrived back to headquarters and heard that Jack had died.” On some of the mail runs, care packages
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was a full frontal assault, with shell fire so intense it was “like a raving madhouse” and when they reached a mined and booby-trapped gully, the Canadians were held in a “filthy limbo.” According to the book, 1,000 Canadian lives were lost while taking the gully, an enemy hold still remained in the town ahead afterward, the fight went door way to doorway and the front was measured in »B4
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came from Vassar’s mother, Gertrude, MacDonald’s future mother-in-law. When he returned home to Edson, Alberta, after the war, he said he knocked on Gertrude’s door. “I told her who I was and she said, ‘You get in here, I want to talk to you. I’ve heard about you,’” said MacDonald. “She had her daughter home and she said, ‘This is Bob MacDonald, Francis.’ Jack never told us he had a sister and she was a good looking gal; six months later we were married.” MacDonald and his wife travelled to Italy 17 times over the years to visit Vassar’s grave. Ortona resonates in Canadian military history with the same reverence as Ypres, Somme, Amiens, Dieppe, Passchendaele, Normandy and Vimy Ridge. “Ortona was called the Stalingrad of the Italian campaign; so many died there,” said MacDonald. “We were advancing into the open to overtake the Germans and all they were doing was sitting in positions, defensive positions, knocking our people out and then moving back to another line.” The battle continued for several days. In Rick Atkinson’s book The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 19431944, he wrote that the Italian campaign was at a stalemate and it was up to the 1st Canadian Division to break it. The author also wrote that the tactic used
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alleyways. “Five rounds of artillery shells landed around us and we cowered in the corner; I remember it was darkness,” said MacDonald. “Every one of them missed but I can remember the boys were all awake. We all started just giggling and laughing; it was nerves. Some fellows became accustomed to it and said, ‘Aww, shut up you guys, for god’s sake it’s not even close.’ Some other fellows were quiet, it affected them so much.” MacDonald said he remembers a soldier who was ready to run one night. “A shell landed, a machine-gun burst came at us and took some chips out of a building,” said MacDonald. “He started to run and I grabbed hold of his pant leg, tripped him and got him behind me. He said, ‘Oh my god, Bob, we’re gonna die,’ and I said, ‘No we’re not.’” MacDonald said he pressed up against the man on a wall and told him he was protected.” “He was a real sweet guy,” said MacDonald. “His nerves were on edge at all times.” A fter Canadi ans took Ortona, Atkinson wrote that a sign posted at its city limits read, “This is Ortona, a West Canadian town.” Ortona was one of the deadliest Canadian battles of the war, and one of the proudest. MacDonald did not return to Western
Canada until after the uprising of Texel, one of the last battles of World War II. When he arrived home, only his mother and father met him at the
train station in Edmonton. All of the victory parties were over. MacDonald entered the war as a private and came out a private. For his service he earned the gratitude of a nation and $1,420. Going off to war was an adventure, said MacDonald. “We were going to be home in a year or back in six months,” he said. “I just thought, ‘my buddies are joining up. I’m not going to be left home alone.’” MacDonald said he would do it again if his country needed him because it is his duty.
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plane for one year beginning on November 1, 1943, said Lambert. Those jobs made a difference to future Powell River Company hiring practices, she added. “World War II changed everything; women were looked upon as employees who could do responsible jobs because of their track record,” said Lambert. “In the company here, they became highly valued employees and a number of their supervisors were really sorry to lose them when they had to make room for the men coming back.”
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no place for them, according to Lambert. But the only way to keep the mill operating was through hiring and training women; they were crucial, she added. “They were very proud of the jobs they had and what they did,” said Lambert. “They were also really proud of their husbands or their boyfriends who were in the forces, and they wanted to contribute as much.” They did just that, rolling up their sleeves and working the machines. Some women, when not working at the mill, were transferred to Boeing of Canada’s Powell River assembly plant, which assembled parts for the PBY patrol and rescue
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When Canada entered into World War II in 1939, Powell River’s population was 8,000 and Powell River Company was in full production seven days a week. Over the course of the war, 1,000 men and 55 women from the area volunteered to go overseas, according to local author and historian Barbara Lambert, who wrote War Brides and Rosies, Powell River and Stillwater, BC. By 1942, the women who stayed home were left alone and waiting. “There was no social life for women,” said Lambert. “These were women in their late teens and early 20s, when they’re normally dating and getting married. They were extremely lonely.” Those women became extremely important in the war effort and indispensable to victory.
From 1942 to 1946, women were hired by the Powell River Company to work in the mill plant. Up until that time, women at the company had only been employed in secretarial positions. Mary Cavanagh was the first to be hired. More than 50 women worked on the floor, trained by experienced men, many of whom had fought in World War I and were too old to fight against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan. The company had to keep the machines running. “The high-grade spruce on the coast here, most of it went through the mill and was used to make a British warplane: the Mosquito,” said Lambert. “The other thing was wood pulp had replaced cotton in the making of explosives.” The company was desperate, but reluctant to employee women, because the mill was
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FALLEN SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR
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Over the course of two world wars, in excess of 1,000,000 Canadians made the ultimate sacrifice and paid for the freedom of their families, friends and future compatriots with their lives. More than 1,000 men and women from the Powell River area served in some capacity in either World War I or World War II; 54 of the soldiers never returned home. Some of the fallen were born and raised in familiar local neighbourhoods such as Westview, Wildwood, Cranberry, Townsite and Lang Bay, while others began their lives in other regions of the province or country. Whether they were born here or came to the area for work or families reasons, they all shared a connection: Powell River was their home. For information on all of the men and women from the Powell River area who served in World War I and World War II, go to powellrivermuseum.ca.
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1890 - May 8, 1917
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
1872 - November 9, 1916 Service: Canadian Infantry Buried: Contay British
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1889 - April 14, 1915 Service: Canadian Infantry Buried: Menin Gate
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J.B. ALLAN Died: 1943
JAMES ALBERT ANGLIN Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
June 9, 1903 - June 6, 1944
RONALD CLINTON BAKER
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
September 18, 1924 - March 28, 1945 Hometown: Wildwood
WILLIAM GEORGE REX BAUM Royal Canadian Air Force
September 20, 1920 - August 24, 1943 Hometown: Cranberry
JOHN MCCLELLAND BELL Royal Canadian Air Force
March 2, 1917 - July 18, 1943 Hometown: Wildwood
ALDO BORTOLUSSI Royal Canadian Air Force
June 17, 1923 - October 4, 1943 Hometown: Wildwood
LUCIEN (SHADOW) BROOKS Royal Canadian Air Force
August 31, 1920 - April 25, 1942 Hometown: Wildwood
ALBERT MOORE CAREY Royal Canadian Air Force
October 1, 1912 - November 28, 1942 Hometown: Powell River area
HERBERT ANDREW DAUBNER JUNIOR Royal Canadian Air Force
FALLEN SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR
HENRY STANLEY DRAYTON
ROBERT ARNOLD LASSER
Royal Canadian Artillery
Royal Canadian Air Force January 14, 1921 - March 5, 1944 Hometown: Paradise Valley
AUGUST JOHN ECKMAN JUNIOR
DONALD KENNETH LEE
May 18, 1923 - September 3, 1943 Hometown: Powell River area
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
June 20, 1914 - June 6, 1944 Hometown: Wildwood
GEORGE PAUL ETHOFER Royal Canadian Medical Corps
February 8, 1908 - June 6, 1944 Hometown: Aldergrove
WILLIAM CHARD FAIRGRIEVE
Royal Canadian Air Force
December 13, 1919 - August 17, 1944 Hometown: Vancouver
HENRY GRAHAM FREEMAN
Royal Canadian Air Force
October 27, 1918 - May 23, 1943 Hometown: Burnaby
REGINALD CARL GAUDET
Royal Canadian Air Force
April 20, 1921 - March 11, 1944 Hometown: Cranberry
WILLIAM GILMOUR Royal Canadian Air Force
November 21, 1915 - August 21 1942 Hometown: Powell River
EARNEST GRIBBLE
United States Army Air Force
May 17, 1918 - February 2, 1945 Hometown: Westview
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
March 7, 1914 - September 28 1944 Hometown: Powell River area
ROBIN GIBSON LEESE Royal Canadian Air Force July 20, 1922 - October 2, 1943 Hometown: Townsite
WILLIAM HEWISON LEESE Royal Canadian Air Force
March 9, 1924 - December 18, 1944 Hometown: Townsite
JAMES LLOYD
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
September 18, 1895 - April 29, 1940 Hometown: New Westminster
ARTHUR JAMES (JIMMY) LYLE United States Army
March 19, 1916 - October 31, 1944 Hometown: Townsite
ARCHIBALD LESLIE MACLEAN
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
October 11, 1922 - July 21, 1944 Hometown: Port Alberni
FRANK MCMULLIN
Royal Canadian Air Force
January 12, 1909 - March 17, 1942 Hometown: Prince Rupert
May 17, 1914 - June 22, 1943 Hometown: Townsite
EWART HASSELL
PHILLIP JOHN ASHWORTH MAGSON
JOSEPH WILLIAM DAUBNER
April 20, 1922 - June 28, 1944 Hometown: Cranberry
July 12, 1920 - August 24, 1943 Hometown: Cranberry
Royal Canadian Air Force
August 11, 1918 - May 15, 1942 Hometown: Townsite
ARTHUR DEAKIN
Royal Canadian Air Force
October 12, 1917 - November 13, 1944 Hometown: Powell River area
WILLIAM ROGER DICKSON
Royal Canadian Air Force
June 19, 1906 - August 21, 1944 Hometown: Lang Bay
WILLIAM DITTLOFF
Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve January 31, 1920 - August 21, 1944 Hometown: Wildwood
HARRY WOODWARD DONKERSLEY Royal Canadian Air Force
December 30, 1919 - January 16, 1944 Hometown: Townsite
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
RALPH BRUCE HOPKINS Royal Canadian Air Force
May 10, 1914 - June 27, 1945 Hometown: Powell River area
GORDON BOOTH HUGHES Royal Canadian Navy
July 31, 1924 - November 9, 1945 Hometown: Cranberry
JOHN STEWART JOHNSTON Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve
Royal Canadian Air Force
SHOLTO PATON (HOB) MARLATT
Royal Canadian Air Force
August 9, 1913 - November 29, 1942 Hometown: Cranberry
WILLIAM KENNETH MARSHALL Royal Canadian Air Force
January 7, 1916 - November 10, 1944 Hometown: Vancouver
ANDREW MORRIS
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
March 14, 1909 - May 7, 1944 Hometown: Vancouver
February 14, 1915 - August 17, 1944 Hometown: Powell River area
NORMAN JOHNSTON
JOHN MORRIS
October 28, 1919 - June 3, 1944 Hometown: Townsite
Unknown - October 24, 1942 Hometown: Powell River area
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
RICHARD PRESTON KEAIST
JOHN WILLIAM MULLEN
December 29, 1922 - February 22, 1945 Hometown: Wildwood
August 5, 1920 - May 24, 1944 Hometown: Lang Bay
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
FRANK RICHMOND VINCENT NELLO Royal Canadian Air Force
July 1, 1916 - October 12, 1943 Hometown: Westview
TREVOR CHARLES LEIGHTON PIDCOCK Royal Canadian Air Force
September 20, 1917 - October 15, 1944 Hometown: Victoria
ALBERT LIONEL RORKE United States Air Force
1916 - February 16, 1944 Hometown: Westview
GILBERT HAROLD SCRIVEN
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
March 9, 1919 - June 11, 1944 Hometown: Powell River area
ROBERT WILLIAM SHAW Royal Canadian Air Force
June 12, 1912 - October 28, 1944 Hometown: Powell River area
BERNARD SMITH
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Unknown - March 9, 1945 Hometown: Powell River area
FREDERICK SPRATT
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
August 8, 1905 - May 30, 1944 Hometown: Powell River area
JOSEPH RALPH GORDON SRIGLEY
Royal Canadian Air Force
September 29, 1915 - August 17, 1944 Hometown: Saskatchewan
NICHOLAS STUSIAK Royal Canadian Air Force
May 20, 1920 - May 27, 1944 Hometown: Cranberry
JAMES EMIL VIRAG Royal Canadian Air Force
November 14, 1922 - December 5, 1944 Hometown: Vancouver
MAURICE HUGH WILSHIRE
Army Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
March 8, 1917 - May 23, 1944 Hometown: Cranberry
RICHARD JOHN WOODRUFF
Royal Canadian Air Force
February 20, 1916 - September 30, 1942 Hometown: Westview
SERGIE (STEVE) ZILNIC Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
September 16, 1923 - July 22, 1943 Hometown: Kelly Creek
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