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Peter Wyatt (far right) walking with the colour party.

Peter Wyatt during his military service in Germany.

Peter Wyatt will always ‘remember them’ By Devin Wilger Staff Writer With Remembrance Week approaching, Peter Wyatt is in the Royal Canadian Legion. There are things to do. They need to find a church to ring the bells – “they have bells, we don’t have bells,” he said – at sunset on Remembrance Day. This year, 2018, marks 100 years since the end of WWI. The Legion Dominion Command is requesting that all Legion branches coordinate the ringing of bells within their community 100 times in honor of veterans who served in WWI.

They need to arrange Colour Parties for local schools. While he retired as Legion President in 2016, Wyatt is still actively involved, and still a visible presence with the Legion. He’s still marching with the Colour Party, he’s still participating in their many events. He’s even on the banner for the Legion’s website. Wyatt has been a member of the Legion since 1958, but he said he didn’t get heavily involved until 1998, when he was presented with a peacekeeping medal for his service in the United Nations in Cyprus in 1967-8.

“I said, maybe I will help out.” Helping out, at that time, meant taking on some Sergeant-at-Arms duties with Mike Bibnock. When Bibnock went to Halifax in 2001, Wyatt took over completely. He also became involved in the repair and rededication of the cenotaph in 2010 with John Miller and Terri Lefebvre Prince. He took over as President in 2009, and stayed in the role in 2016. “The Legion has it’s ups and downs, and there was nobody to take over as President.” While the Legion has had its highs and lows

over the past decades, Wyatt said that the main goal was to keep Remembrance going in the city, and that’s a goal they accomplished. “ We kept Remembrance going all these years, and we still want to keep it going.” He remembers his time in Germany, specifically when they would go to Holland. To him, the impact Canada made to Holland when liberating them in WWII is evidence of the good Canada did during wartime, and an example of why young people from our country had to go overseas. “When you go to Holland, you get treated like a king, just because you’re Canadian... They have high respect for the Canadians that served.”

He admits that his own military service doesn’t compare to the veterans who came before him. “I was trained if something happened, but I could go home and have showers and stuff... It wasn’t what the guys had to go through in the first

world war and the second world war.” Memories of the veterans from the area, guys like John Miller and Al Morley and many who others who have already passed on, are also what drives him to keep working for the Legion. It’s all Continued on Page B5

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