Volume 6 - Legion BC/Yukon Command Website

British ColumBia / Yukon CommandHall, Gayle F.Gayle joined the Royal Canadian Air Force on July 18, 1967 at CFB CurrieBarracks. She served as a Finance Clerk at CFB Cornwallis, Nova Scotia,CFB Camp Borden, Ontario, and CFB Clinton, Ontario. She was dischargedon October 8, 1968. Gayle was part of the first combined course (RCAF andNavy) for the amalgamation of the Armed Forces. Gayle is a member ofLegion Branch #24 in Cranbrook, BC.Hancock, Donald MalcolmDonald was born in 1922 in St. Vital, Manitoba. He enlisted in the EssexScottish Regiment and took part in the Normandy Landings on June 6, 1944with the 4 th Infantry Brigade, 2 nd Canadian Division. Donald was killed inaction on August 28, 1944 during the Allied thrust to close the Falaise Gap.He is buried in the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, about 14kilometres south of Caen and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Donald’sMemorial Cross, 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, CanadianVolunteer Service Medal with Overseas Bar, and his 1939-1945 War Medalare displayed in Prince Edward Legion Branch #91 in Langford, BC.Harkness, Clarence (Bill)Bill was born in Souris, Manitoba in 1924 and joined the Army in 1942,training in Portage La Prairie. He went overseas in the spring of 1943 andtrained with the 65 th Tank Transport Unit in Dorking, England. The unittransported tanks all over England and Scotland and in June, 1944, was sentwith nine other transport units to Juno Beach to move tanks to the front lines.The unit stayed with the advancing troops through to Caen and the FalaiseGap and into Germany. After discharge and spending some time in the workforce, Bill returned to the Army for a tour in Korea as a transport driver withthe 54 th Transport Co. and a crew of thirty soldiers. He travelled throughoutKorea as far north as the 38 th parallel, today’s border between North andSouth Korea. Bill stayed in Korea for a year then came back to Canada andto Trail where he returned to work at Cominco. He was a member of LegionBranch #11 in Trail for twenty-eight years until his death in 2009.www.legionbcyukon.ca135