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2 The Acton Free Press Wednesday Nov Jennifer World War One veterans are few and fur between and it J not cosy finding one who talk about his experiences Jim had doubts about the good It would do but it is important for the youth of Acton to know what old soldiers went through Jim got a lot of stories some of them print able As well as serving for three signal sergeant in France 1915 to Jim retired years ago after SO years service as signalman with the CNR Jim enlisted In World War One at the age of 19 from his home in He Joined the County of Perth Regiment In and considered him self Real lucky means he managed to survive the mud and the blood until the last month of the war when he was shot in the shoulder and chest Lady Luck on shoulder After enlistment Jim travelled to Stratford o find out where he would serve and what job he pull He was asked stick with his company and job as signal man They were a good bunch to be In he remembers They must have been Jim got quite an Hon taking signal courses when he got to Eng land and passed top of the list He then helped other recruits pass their signal tests by sending the wire tests He was told he was the best ire signaller on tests Canadian regiments were reassembled when they arrived in England and Jim found himself with the famous Black Watch Highland regiment I happened to be lucky there s that word again By 1916 Jim was in Prance and finding out first hand that hell Rather than giving In to the fear most young men felt at the shock of the trenches Jim said his company treated their advances like hockey games 1 wanted to go they were company to me and he was usually In the first runners up the hill to attack He survived two years m the front lines with He talks of the time in 1918 in Beau Is Woods when the contingent assembled in the dark You never saw mass of soldiers in your life you had to tap the fellow in front of you on the shoulder lo know where you were going Thick fog and black skies helped the attack but not Jim nerves The attack started at in the morning What a racket The guns went off and we didn know they were there it sounded like a freight train When the fog lifted Jim and his company found themselves in shallow trenches recently abandoned by the German army A German whizbang landed a few yards from me it was a dud Just another one of my streaks of luck Another time he felt a German shell again bounding like a train exploding near his shoulder relieved to discover it was a chunk of mud thrown up by the shell not muscleshattering metal My shoulder would have been gone lie breathes The mud of the trenches and landers Fields finished many a soldier in World War One but Jim managed it off You just got wet and muddy and tried to dry He recalls one time camped In mud trenches in the front lines water had to be fetched from a from German lines Wc all had to take our turn The mud was two feet deep and like thick soup It came over our puttees and you never knew when you were going to get shot I never got sick from the mud and I never suffered from the food Some guys were fussy but I never minded The Black Watch had this little Scottish cook who could make a out or anything Being a signaller Jim job was always up front carrying his heavy signal equipment on his belt with his bullets and bombs Those front line trenches were full of tension us the war advanced and passwords were necessary in order to move any distance along the trench Jim saw one fellow soldier shot for not remembering the password Walking case not wounded War relief came In the form of two gunshot wounds for Jim Ho was wounded September 1918 He was hit by enemy fire beside a barbed wire roll fence and was lucky enough to have a good friend who was a stretcher bearer hand He patched up the big wound in my side and told me to stay still and wait for help I never saw him again But Jim wasn too happy lying out in the open with German bullets winging by him so he dived through the barbed wire into a short trench There was a wounded German sitting in It shot through the leg We sat for a few minutes then I began feeling awful sick so I crawled out of there With his life s blood pouring out of him Jim remembered lo leave his bayonet by the trench with a white tag on it to indicate a wounded man was here Walking back to base he met stretcher bearers but because he was managing to stay on his feet he kept gelling sent from station to as a walking case Fortunately he was able to attract the attention of a doctor who realized how seriously Jim was wounded The fact that ho got gassed walking back to base with his shot up side and arm contributed to his sickness The war not to end for another five weeks was over for Jim and he was sent to hospital in England He landed home In Canada December 191B Christmas present for his parents Ever a signalman After the war Jim settled down to his job with the Grand Trunk railway later to become the CNR His war experiences had made him a first rate signal man and that how he spent the remainder of his working life travelling round to Ontario stations relieving signal men Mnrryuig his wife Vera In 1927 he settled in Aeton ten years later Even after retiring with years service under his belt In 1060 Jim wouldn sit still He was asked to help out at the old Rockwood station until it was closed In the early 60s Now formally retired Jim spends hla days in his Arthur Street garden a living history from the War to end all Wars Irrife8fr fe Head lice scratched public department last week checked the rooms in which six children at St Joseph Sch col took classes Principal said that even the teachers were checked Since St Joseph started there has been one case in each year according to the principal Public health officials Inspect people who are to have head lice children playmates are also checked and if there is any found then theclassesarechccked indicated Jam leson What we arc really trying do is get parents to check kids hair on a regular basis say once a week saldJamieson The adult louse Is a tiny brown insect which moves very quickly usually jump to the Continued from page 1 healthiest head of hair said the public health The common places for to gather is be hind the ears and on the nopcof the neck The louse lays liny white ova shaped eggs which can be confused with dandruff Thert is however one major difference Ifthehair isshiken dandruff will fall Louse eggs on the other hand stick to the hair and if the hah is shaken they won move Eggs hatch in about nine days The lice easily travel from head to head Children have a habit of sharing hats combs and brushes which we art trying to discourage said Jam ieson PreChristmas Sale ALL DIAMOND RINGS and GOLD RINGS CHAINS BRACELETS 20 Home Gifts Cards ell Mill Street East Acton 8533160 Works money needed A request for more than budgeted to finish Halton Region works projects has been made to the Ontario Municipal Board The must give approval to a munlcl to increase the 1980 spending quota Tho increases are all in debenture financing Linda Gillies and Sharon Page both of received from for their and raising efforts to buy an electric lift chair for her mother rest home Bowlers raise 1000 for electric lift chair Rest Home Main St North Acton has an electric chair lift now thanks to the generosity of Hills and real dents Georgetown resident Terry Gordon whose mother used to live at Jeanette and Is now In a nursing home organized a scries of bowl a which were played in Georgetown Acton and Fergus and raised nearly the special chair lo take seniors living at Jean up and down the stairs Seniors from the rest home cheered staff and friends of Mrs Gordon during the bowl a thons Owner said she was amazed by the of both residents and businesses in Georgetown and Rock wood who sponsored bowlers She added she was disappointed by the weak support the project received from Acton ACTON SANTA CLAUS PARADE ENTRY FORM OF GROUP CONTACT PERSON NAME ADDRESS CATEGORY check SERVICE CLUB 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