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Till- November IS l Page IT Home Newspaper of Hills Campaign managers secrets page 22 Blundy recovering Sports beat page on on the spot page 18 SECOND SECTION Halton Hills remembers its war dead World War 1 veterans recall the great war lljVW Herald It is years since Kaiser Wllhelni and his men end to British end the rut War of In 1J1R At Soldier on IS Suit road and thi Lint velinns of conflict stood in e grey afternoon with 4j other of Second War members of community listening and remembering as names of the glorious dc id from both wars it a the Legion were read aloud is a native He Join id Hit irlilkry in in served as i driver he whs wounded in spent that time Until his return to in in in Kill was signaller in lit joined from llirrisleii In spending years in Hi wis wounded in both thighs his hand ind was opt rated on in 1rniiee then spent six mi in i in liiJandlnfon Mr Middlolonlsnluetinlte Legion in leu on me membrane e I par In Sunday afternoon The lift I n IT ill hi re and proceeded j roundabout route lo memhr inn I irk win re sen ices wire conducted hi Hoi Iclcr Harrow of i In the were repmriitallv ill Local Legion marks anniversary Georgetown has over members C morn Branch 120 innliersary this jur One oldest In as well as one of lis best known George town Legion has between 450 and members aceordmR to its vict president Old time legion members like Walter Louth and Hill il wis far different beginning Mr Louth belonged to the Grtut War Hon an organization somewhat like the Lesion but without any nation governing body It was first set up in 1919 and each town 1 id Its own link with no cm to thi group in boring towns burl visit Camilla in with tin purpose of forming a orfamwtion as pirl of Hie British Fmpire Service Tin idea spread quickly the Georgetown was organized at a meeting in the town hall on Mr estimates lhat were members in beginning prepared by ihe I eg ion when it celebrated its anniversary and loaned The by Branch member says 111 the branch executive included on onsen is president and Ed Barker Allan Hone Nelson IV Williams Get it in Tern Grieve w is Hit first Sgt at Arms The Greal ir Vetenns tumid sever d lundrcd d ill to tin new and they received their April 27 Women Auxil try for 13 of year 1 he did i lot ot house I before a ion is found over i store on the wisl side e Main which wis Inset for membership fore the branch to purchist its present home Hie corner of Merkct and Mill Streets for ItGOOmcash In 1335 Bill Gibbs remembers the when ltlon first purclnscd it It used to an implement shed in the front and a m back he siys There fellow who used ike fin ycir itr Tin first Day Ihe Legion is 1 j1 The into lllirtersm Mill St I in nil ippludfi r liter sell held in wlut is now an apartment it lite north corner It was in this sin ill spitt lb it Hit mortf burn inj w is held Mr siys member Ambulance nurse Woman tells of her war past Hi Everybody his their me ind experiences from the they re personal friends and loved ones ion lost and people don them Audrey Martin says Mrs Go John Ambulance Brigade during and after W orld W and was assigned a hospital in Britain caring for civilian and military pi She the Royal Corps at Wmford Hospital Bristol the hospital had been a children hospital but was taken over during the war for civilian military en Mrs was one of ihe first of he George town division of lilt St John nice Brig Hit mother Grieve wis one of the women responsible for the forming of Ihi division in Georgetown Whin call came for volunteers to Mrs who is the time was the onlv of the George li wn division volunteer In order to join brigade women studied first aid hi me nursing courses ind nee had Joined were every ytir Before she is Mrs Martin took additional traimiui in Toronto Between the lime she leers and the time she left to go overseas Mrs wtnl through a period iff again wailing for her travelling orders to In issued lwiti she win told her services wercn 1 rehired but It tit group she was in finally underway had just hut nurses were still needed in British Mrs wdh wonim i last i She speni 13 in in he fflciil Idle of tilt group to which Mrs Mirtm was wis Si John Brigade is They wert responsible lo Ihe stiff in the British hospitals but ill mill went through he km wlei GLEN WILLIAMS REMEMBERS MARTIN were Mrs Mjrtm iys hid rehdves in the I but 1 was sent tn I did miinge lo visit iny relitnis on furloughs lhnih Once the arrived it their hospitals work usuallywilh and given more responsibilities Hit were vtry Hie way things Mrs Martinaays 1 wis lucky I a miming sister I i nurse that I go long with A lot like her hut 1 got Then wert four inidi in at Hit where Mrs was posted but they were sent shortly arrived llicy i died me Mrs says with The volun tot rs worked shifts Mrs Martin thty had wilh Hit man of taring for Ihe wounded You sow operations and Continued on Page and tint his al took a piece of the mortgage burned it in Ihe fireplace in ill room Lien If Ihe area is sin ill then wasabir and beer sold for a or two for a Mr chuckles It w is like lug open hi use ho says Any out w ilk in buy heir sil down for i chit Then rulis wen up and ynuhuliobe member In 120 along with the I Ions Club local Industrie all sponsored litms In Midget cott organized in 1937 The branch bee in the building and the work up or gum funds is they available Throughout Second War years the wis rusing money for legion Warlund sending parcels to members sons A number of numb Including Mike and Jim Murphy founding memb of ihe brinch joined Vetenns Guard doing duty at Prisoner of War across Can iih In it was decided to rtnoviit the building and for many months us use was inns as place is literally lorn apart and rebuilt BOM JH1SI lV Kb il 1040 the boiler blew up and did a real deal of damage to newly rcnoval building and again members began raising funds to restore their building Bill Gibbs recills the disast ind it resulted from someone putting the wrong type of fuel in the new boiler Gee It made a mess he Around it was decided that the branches should beg in looking outwards towards ispeetive though he savs liny him grow up GOTlHiMI A hill of a tin ones to mikes his imualtriplo the cenotaph in for the of the boys who didnt tome Jink Milne sill on the firm it Bill Moffat which lit died hi nit when hi enlisted in tin in Mr had to imp it for r hi flier the township ill lislcd il survived tin ir illhougbthi in now id Mr w is struek l a shell 1H Shi lis spn id whin tin y hit he I w is hit Ihe lit id the inn and the hind I it thiv I IIH In i si is computed from this madr effort mid photo Ml Mill tit Old i or IW in id i oper on his follow id and Mr is now tally in the kit ear I w is wounded the d i thty shot veil Hive you r lie ird of Hit who wis the British istape over tin lines The Germans slut when thty Mr Milne the 14th reinforcement roup understood to is isreinfirtemcnlsfor the Princess Cam di 1 iRht Infantry but a of iys hi fort sailed out of Mnnlrtral Ihi y all new were to reinforce tht IS TtHtdVTIl Hi was in Toronto 1J17 Mr Milm Mr Milnt numbers mini in prior l the building of it the of il ht lint Solllt thought money eould bail spent hi Hi ivitlmnbv putting up Aeton and became i eh men lur of Acton I et ion when it is ft rmed in fr 11 iiuik who Ins sayshtran iw from hi me lo enlist at Hi i 18 I I ai I rin li Wt tin wir mil Slid I il tin l gel i in tie drill flu they were m Inn wert hi Horn of the In ml i 1 wint to wind up with them so will e If to M I mil enlisted Hut wis ill tie n my hid just lint diy or family farm was at Mansonville lr pile it tint imi so he id thinks to i little help He the let tint forte tame f inn of he snl for I- on their records says that per tint of men in his outfit were picked up by British recruiting mission through Stalls liny d rilher volunteer and et into our engineering corps than git caught in the drift it home he The Germ ins hist lug resis Unit was at Bel he recills Thtre was quilt a bit of hand tohand there and were under shill fin all the lime liter tint Ihey threw up I ridges inals 1 Ihev still in to ante quite r He w is at Mons when wir tnded iiht- wen fly I m mi di m w is d g is dismanlhng miy have hi aril of It was the lint is to be It Wi found same dugouts tint were three deep would bale hi en officers iju In ihe process of dismantling si dugouts they had a few isualties over booby traps so thty throwing hand grenades Inside first to ate such problems before go ing Anything usable Ihey found wis turned over to Ihe Corps Thty found i few horses he ind most of hem were turned m but some were sold to Belgian butchers for spare money is iiniong he corps mem sent to to build a imp for returning mm to Britain or Canada He he wis of the lasl able bodied men to leivc in May wenl from imp Whllby in southern En md Ik w is supposed to come home on the snis some men gol of burned uj the tin the camp for peddlers followed army camps bis pipers went up in m ke iloiig wilh the shanty delay til them for bo ten days ten ihey did sail it was aboard the a former horse boat from South Africa he says They tide us en for the train trip to Glasgow where we were to catch our bod he says most of us figured the easiest way to carry them was to eat Continued on Page Georgetown Legion has been involved in number of torn projects inclu ding riising funels for and District Mc morial hospital the pool ihe memorial arena and Countryside residence for menially adults a I Hornby he Legion looked afler hoc key Saturday for youiiRslcrs the Town took over project a few years ago Thty also sponsor tht lloyiilcltes who won the io Junior Ladles tour this summer The Air Cadets have been another Legion responsibility for past lo years and receive no help except for uniforms provided by the government nnd the occasion ill transportation lo course or event iii 1 2D of I held Its Bower Frederick Street along Mill Street nice Day parade Saturday morning Marchers led by to the cenotaph or the II a illiiuis hand paraded from Post Office Pholoby Maggie Hannah