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Daily Times-Gazette, 7 May 1953, p. 27

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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Thursday, May 7, 1953 27 iron Jenny's girls took over the job fot cleaning and painting the Cru. Says Jenny: |sader. This meant more spare "We like Canadian ship better [time and three days' leave for than Royal Navy. Your food bet- each watch, ter so your 'gash' (navy slang for| When the Crusader left Hong brave, with a lot of inftiative and brac" for the regimental museum 1% | adaptability." --patrol and raid souvenirs, and a | Last June Van Doos were the |New flag. The flag was designed {first Canadians here to try out here and made in. Japan. It has {armor vests. They were a novelty |flown outside battalion headquar- L] nn Jenny Girls" Experts then, and used only on patrols. |ters ever since the first model was a »" Van Doos" Masters | : hod Before they left here in April Van {received last autumn, In Keeping Ships Trim {Doo companies wore not only the' yf permitted to do 50 we 'Would | oprTAWA (CP)--Who would paint| Jenny is a Chinese woman, fat | garbage) better." Kong Jenny's girls were there in Of No Man's Land | vests but steel helmets all the time | iyo to fly it in Canada beside the la destroyer from stem to stern, and amiable, shrewd in business. |AN INSTITUTION their sampan to bid farewell, Flut. By BILL BOSS | [Gibraltar, then held by the 1st/in forward gress, so much bad the | » : "We | , | i i Canadien Frees Stall Writer Pattaton, the Royal Canaaian Regi | shelling increased. I Tike a with ney privilege pe of uot Lg Ra ot oem Jenny is known to sailors ding os ria bog BEA wa "gay om ideq | PERIODS AT FRONT (the regimental or battalion colors. | fect" vn e® ship's leftovers and 16. They'll wash and paint a ship's | Tost of the world's navies. She 18 |; "5h "Crusader," "Jenny," bound after a year in Korea. the Says Trudeau: We avoided Like other infantry outfits, But it would be always outside our | SF RE Jha oo | superstructure clean as a whistle |20 institution and most seamen | "ote. and the ship's crest 1st Van Doos are starry-eyed over more casualties by strict control ! headquarters, wherever we are, as | OY oF an ok b eke s Sa A the | A5Tee a pretty wonderful one athe da a ' "Jenny's girls' make | | . . a sign that 'the Van Doos are sta- "JeRVT FIL (PATS S "ask the ship's leftovers and sell them in| ' BY: wiice the avirage sallor, eve tioned here. e 8| or, every : an crew of HMCS Crusader. | Hong Kong. one of Jenny's girls manages to The unit has been awarded 16 The girls are neat and clean, [ge more paint on the ship's side at the shoulders, Jenny rules hem with an hand. parachutes. of daylight movement, by much roughly one-third of the battalion's plid-timers with the 1st battalion, digging. and by having all work [tine here wai 0 reserve, Jif perl e Royal 22nd Regiment, {alk con- done by night. | od . stantly about savoring again the | (1952) to July 1; Aug. 10-Nov, 1 . t 26 inches h Roedeers, abou ave still Kept "When we finally left that i= | thrill' of jumping into space when y Pos the unit resumes its home-defence paratroop role. Newcomers want to ualify as jumpers speedily so that they can stay with the battal- jon with which they fought over ere. The first 50 para-volunteers will be dropped off at Rivers, Man., on the way to Quebec. The army has made special arrangements for them to begin their courses at once. The next 50 of the 172 volu- teers are to follow at Rivers at the end of June. The unit sailed from Kure, Japan, May 2. Lt.-Col. Louis Trudeau of Quebec commanded the battalion here. TOUGH SLUGGING The year in Korea was more one of tough slugging than pitchtd battles. The Van Doos proved out- standingly last September that they could take punishment and still assert mastery over no man's land, They never lost an inch of ground, Dec, 1-Jan. 30, and April 7-20. _ |qecorations, including an OBE to tion we -were the bosses of no| ¢ eir last reserve fod, man's land. We were able to patrol Tne ther 1a (hig Ere, | at will along our front, and even poos received and quickly came to | had some successful gaylizht lay- like their first Katcom (Korea | up patrols. Those helped us bring | army troops attached to the Com- down fire on enemy we observed, monwealth division) soldiers. and got information on which to | And when they returned to the | base fighting patrols at night. line for their last stint, Korean sol- | MORALE HIGH diers suffered and died together "Despite our casualties and al-|with them in the common effort. though the position was hard to| The reason for the Van Doos defend the men's morale was high. | going into the line so close to their They felt their responsibilities the departure was so that when the mare, and carried out their duties 3rd battalion arrived it could send ithe better because of it." company and platoon leaders for- | "We learned here," says Trudea ward to see how the position was "that to be good in defensive op- held, how patrols functioned, and erations the soldier must be a good |get the "feel" of the set-up from shot and know his weapon thor- | fellow-countrymen of their own lan- oughly. _ |guage. : "It is even more important in| That process began the night of |this kind of warfare than in the |April 17 and after two more nights lattack. He must know how to fend of it the Van Doos were relieved {for himself--more even than in the by the newly-arrived 3rd battalion fluid battle because he lives con- of the Royal Canadian Regiment, Trudeau, and more are pending, It hopes to march through the | streets of Montreal and Quebec, | but by the time it reaches the pro- vincial capital it will be only about 100 strong. i Men will be dropping out across | the Dominion to begin their leaves, | and 220 will stay at home in Mont- real. | "I do hope they have a parade arranged for us in Montreal," says Trudeau, "because it will be the last chance for the battalion to put | | together again after our holiday.' Work begins at Valcartier, Que., again early in August. on a good show before we all coma} Downing street in London, sym-|round to find one of Jenny's girls |--all smiles, five feet high. bol of British government, was named after Sir George Downing, 17th century diplomat. {issue of | SHRILL ORDERS | ships put wire there." A story of the job the Chinese | girls did on the the destroyer visited Hong Crusader when With their long hair braided into |than on her own clothes,' Kong the typical Chinese queue and admiring Canadian officer. serves. * said one |large numbers in British game re- recently is carried in the current The Crowsnest, Royal Canadian Navy magazine, The warship entered Hong Kong harbor to re-fuel and rest after duy in Korean waters. Lt.-Cmdr. John Husher of Lon- don, Ont,, and Victoria was on a wing of the bridge in charge of securing the ship to the tanker. He noticed nothing out of the or- dinary until a soprano voice be- hind him said: "Put wire there, Jimmy; all RN "Jimmy" The amazed swung Pretty ---- Prec SLIPPERS The girls had come aboard from their sampan almos unnoticed. May 10th Reserved . .. Ho tical Give Mom a change colorful 4 comfortable shoes ave so 4 lay shoes, toe pampering slippers, for summer! Ow' stantly under trying conditions, [then assuming its first assignment. There are the lonely outposts at| At the last parade the men were night, the small patrols and am- presented with mementoes of their bushes, the strain of sitting out year here--a cigaret case for each barrages in a trench. He must be. soldier and a brooch for his wife prepared to cook his own food, or girl friend, both with regimental and to sleep in discomfort. |crests, and a regimental scarf. "Korea has given us more con- HAVE NEW FLAG |firmation for believing the Cana-| Trudeau says the battalion also dian a good soldier--he is keen, is taking home 'a lot of bric-a- They had some first-rate patrols. But for the most part it was the wearying, nerve-straining task of sitting and taking it. Trudeau says the Van Doos' period of real testing was last September, when they held a ser- les of ridges west of Little Gib- raltar. The enemy shelled con- stantly and patrolled intensively-- at first. 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