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"KEEPING THE MEMORY ALIVE" D-DAY NORMANDY 70th ANNIVERSARY TOUR May 31 - June 12, 2014 VerstraeteTravel & Cruises and Martin and Helen Boomsma invite CanadianWarVeterans, their family members and friends, and any interested Canadians on our 11th"Keeping the MemoryAlive"tour of theWorldWar 1 andWorldWar 2 Canadian battle�elds in Europe. Experience the history and emotions as we visit these major Canadian battle�elds, memorials and cemeteries in England, France and Belgium. Highlights will include, a guided tour of London, the gravesite of Col. John McCrae, Dieppe Beaches, Normandy for the 70th D-DayAnniversary at the Juno Beach Centre, Ieper andAmsterdam. Join us to gain a new appreciation for the sacri�ces our parents and grandparents have made for our peace and freedom.The tour will be personalized for participants as much as possible to make it a trip of a lifetime.As we travel you will receive a wealth of wartime information and history. Saturday, May 31: Evening departure from Toronto, overnight �ight to London, England. Sunday, June 01: Arrival London. We board our coach and enjoy a tour of London before checking into our hotel. - London 2 nights. Monday, June 02:We enjoy a guided tour of the historic and military sites of this world famous city. Buckingham Palace, Churchill's War Rooms and the centre of London will be highlights. Tuesday, June 03:We travel from London to the Dieppe English Channel sea coast with a stop at Col. John McCrae's grave near Boulogne-sur-Mer where the author of "In Flanders Fields" died in January 1918. - Dieppe 2 nights. Wednesday, June 04: We visit the 3 Canadian landing beaches and monuments of the Dieppe Raid of August 19, 1942 and the Dieppe War Cemetery where 907 Canadians are buried. Later enjoy some free time in this pleasant and attractive seaside town. Thursday, June 05:We leave Dieppe for Normandy with enroute visit to Pegasus Bridge where British and Canadian Airborne landed shortly after midnight June 6, 1944 to secure the Eastern �ank of the D-Day landing beaches. - Normandy 3 nights. Friday, June 06 & Saturday, June 07: In Normandy we visit Omaha Beach American Cemetery, the Mulberry Harbour site at Arromanches and most of the memorials, cemeteries and Canadian battle sites in Normandy of June, July and August, 1944. Our schedule will be decided to facilitate participation in the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations at the Juno Beach Centre. Visits to historic sites will try to accommodate tour participants' family connections. Sunday, June 08:We leave Normandy and travel to Ieper (Ypres) with an enroute visit to the battle�elds of the Somme. The Newfoundland Park at Beaumont Hamel is considered "the best preserved battle�eld of WW1". - Ieper 3 nights Monday, June 09: We follow the route of the "Western Front" from Ieper to the most famous WW1 Canadian battle site: Vimy Ridge. There we visit the Vimy Ridge Memorial, the trenches, the tunnels and an informative Interpretation Centre, before returning to Ieper and participating in the "Last Post" ceremony held at the Menin Gate each evening since 1928. Tuesday, June 10:We have an opportunity to explore Ieper and tour major WW1 battle sites, i.e. Essex Farms Cemetery where John McCrae wrote his famous poem May 3, 1915, Vancouver Corner where poison gas was �rst used in WW.1, Langemarck German Cemetery with 44,000 burials, Passchendaele Ridge and Tyne Cot Cemetery. We will be awed by the Canadian connection to the "Ypres Salient" in Flanders. Wednesday, June 11:We leave Ieper and Belgium, travel to Holland and enjoy a visit and canal tour of Amsterdam before checking in at our hotel. - Amsterdam 1 night. Thursday, June 12: Transfer to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for our return �ight to Toronto. I T I N E R A R Y & T O U R H I G H L I G H T S Verstraete Travel & Cruises 14845 Yonge St. Suite 300, Aurora, Ontario L4G 6H8 Tel: 416-969-8100 Fax: 905-727-8113 Toll Free: 1-800-565-9267 Ontario Registration 3367728 email: aurora@verstraete.com Contact our hosts: Martin and Helen Boomsma 42 Byron Street, Georgetown, Ontario L7G 3W7 • (905) 877-5843 email: mhboomsma@sympatico.ca or Verstraete Travel & Cruises Welcoming 2014 Tour Participants visit us at: www.verstraetetravel.com D-Day Normandy 70th Anniversary - Our time at Normandy will be �nalized when the of�cial schedules of the commemorations become available. All efforts will be made to visit the most important ceremonies, sites and memorials. Details will be made available with �nal travel documents. We reserve the right to adjust the tour itinerary accordingly. Escorted by Martin and Helen Boomsma NELLIS CONSTRUCTION LIMITED ACTON ROAD BUILDING EARTH MOVING (519) 853-0960 Take Time To Remember! 905-877-3631 www.nellis.ca Family owned & operated for over 50 years A special time to remember our freedom and fortunes. We honour our veterans and our current forces. Grant, Glen & all our employees THANK YOU. Service Centre SILVER CREEK 905-877-9042 WeWill Always Remember T he IFP• H ospital D onation •Thursday, N O V 7, 2013 3 It was sent to Shorncliffe Military Hos- pital where many wounded Canadian sol- diers returned from battle to be patched up and convalesce. The hospital is located just outside Folkestone in Kent, in close proximity to both Dover and Folkestone ports, making it ideal to transport wound- ed troops from ships. As we know, The Great War ended with the signing of the Armistice, November 11, 1918. It's only speculation, but it's likely the quilt stayed at Shorncliffe for some time after that as many troops remained in hos- pitals in England for some time, to grow strong enough to endure the sea voyage back to Canada. At that point, the trail of the George- town Women's Institute Shorncliffe quilt goes cold. Fast forward to the spring of 2012. Norman Jennings and his wife Daisy Nellie were married in the 1930s, and lived in Kingston, Surrey. Daisy died prior to 2012, and in his final days, Norman talked to his nephew Tony Groves of Wimbledon, London, who was the executor of his es- tate. He told Groves that he had 'an army blanket thing in the cupboard' and he didn't know what to do with it. Groves never gave it any more thought at the time. After his uncle died April 23, 2012, Groves and his wife Maggie started clearing his uncle's belongings from his residence. "We thought no more about it. When he died it was our job to deal with his estate and that's when we first saw it (the quilt)," said Groves. "It was in the linen cupboard with the sheets and blankets." In addition to the 355 names embroi- dered on the front, the quilt also had the name and address 'DN Jennings, 23 Or- lando Rd SW4' written in ink on the back. "I knew that Shorncliffe (hospital) housed the military hospitals for Cana- dian troops so to that extent I knew what I was looking at," said Groves in an email interview. "I also noticed that his (his un- cle) wife's address, before they married, was on it, so it must have come through her family. I can only assume that a rela- tive of hers worked at the hospital but that is only a guess. "So the next question was what to do with it. Sell it? Put it in a drawer for an- other 100 years?" said Groves. "We made up our minds pretty quickly that if the people of Georgetown made it for their lads all those years ago then they should have it back if they so wished." Groves searched online and found Georgetown had become part of Halton Hills. He decided to contact Halton Hills Mayor Rick Bonnette, and asked him if the town had a museum or a group that would be interested in the quilt. Bonnette forwarded Groves' query to Esquesing Historical Society (EHS) archi- vist Mark Rowe, who contacted Groves, May 24, 2012, saying EHS would be quite pleased to accept the quilt. Names on the Shorncliffe Military Hospital quilt Returned Officers Wounded in France, April 1915 Lt Col Jas Ballantine DSQ Capt G.O. Brown Capt M. McKinley ----------------- Rev J Truax Mrs. Truax Gowman Truax Newman Truax Mr M Near Mrs. Near Mrs. J Purdy Miss M Matthew Mrs. Matthew Mrs. J Cooper Miss E Irwin John Cooper Irwin Matthew Doris Matthew Mr F Young Mrs. Young Mrs. Cavanagh Mrs. B Durbin Mr J Boomer jr Mrs. Boomer Mrs. D Brooks Mr Hc Stapleton Mrs. Stabelton Mrs. H Stockford Mr H Craven Mrs. Craven Constance Whitmee Raymond Whitmee Mr W Joyce Miss M Joyce Miss I Livingstone Miss M Livingstone Mr G Bunt Miss D Ross Bert Rice Mr H McNally Mrs. McNally Bessie Blair Lena McNally Mr F Braisiby Mr J Mason Mr J Bell Mrs. G Day Miss Eva Day Mr S McKenzie Mrs. McKenzie Mrs. W Moore Miss D Lucas Gordon Hainer Mr K M Thornton Mrs. Thornton Miss Sadie Leslie Miss J Baird Miss A Leslie Mr T McKay Mrs. McKay Mr R Ross Mrs. Ross Miss H Ross Mr E Ross Miss A Coventry Mrs. J Pedley Miss L Reed Mrs. E Lyons Mr D Harley Mrs. W Hamilton Mr P Tulloch Mrs. Tulloch Miss M Tulloch Mrs. E Royce Mrs. D Harley Bertha Follett Gladys Follett Margaret Kennedy Pearl Scott Alphonse Benham Eddie McGrath Mrs. S Young Mrs. A Morrow Mrs. C Preston Mrs. G Beaumont Miss E Andrews Miss E Justin Harry Nevens Mrs. W Bell Mr K McDonald Mrs. McDonald Mr J Willoughby Mrs. Willoughby Mr Wm Barber Mrs. Barber Mr J Scott Mrs. Scott Mr W Heaton Mr L Sherier Miss B Sullivan Mr D Parr Quilt sat for decades in a English cupboard Maggie and Tony Groves at their home in Wimbledon, London. In the spring of 2012, while clearing the house of Tony's late uncle Norman Jennings of Kingston, Surrey, the pair found the 1915 quilt, which was origi- nally created in Georgetown in 1915, by the local Women's Institute. The quilt was on display at Thorncliffe Military Hospital during the First World War, and later was found in the Jennings' linen cupboard. Submitted photo Continued from pg. 1 See HIGH, pg. 6