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Heels, G.

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Pte. G. Heels returns home

Pte. Gordon Heels, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Heels, Lindsay St. S., town, arrived back in Canada from overseas recently aboard the hospital ship ‘Lady Nelson’.

Pte. Heels is now confined to Chorley Park Hospital, Toronto, as a result of injuries he sustained in an accident when he was engaged as a dispatch rider on active service. He collided with a truck and suffered a fractured neck.

Reports reaching Canada at that time indicated that he might be released from hospital in a matter of a couple of months. However, speaking with the boy’s father this morning, it was revealed that his son is completely paralyzed.

The many friends of the family extend sincere good wishes to the injured soldier and hope for his early recovery.

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Pte. Gordon Heels enlisted with the Canadian Army on 4 February 1942, He left Toronto for St. Johns, N.B. on 1 February 1943 and arrived at Fredericton, N.B. on 8 February 1943. He went to Windsor, N.S. on 12 August 1943 and arrived in England 20 September 1943.

Pte. Heels was injured while on duty as dispatch rider and suffered a broken neck in April 1944. Pte. Heels was invalided home and arrived aboard the Lady Nelson 24 July 1944.

At this time he was admitted to Chorley Park Hospital. He was transferred to the Christie St. Military Hospital on 2 August 1944. He died on 13 June 1945.

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