Volume 6 - Legion BC/Yukon Command Website

British ColumBia / Yukon CommandJackson, Douglas Ross (Doug)Doug joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in Toronto, Ontario in June1960. He served with the rank of Captain in RCAF Station Marville, Francewith 1(F) Wing, 445 Squadron in 1962; in CFB Chatham, NB with 416Squadron from 1963 to 1966; in Cape Parry, NWT, DEW line site in 1967;in Edmonton, Alberta as a Survival and Ground Search Instructor in theSurvival Training School between 1968 and 1970; and in CFB Comox, BCwith 409 Squadron from 1970 to 1974. He flew in the back seat in CF100’sin Europe and in CF101b Voodoo in Canada (“like ‘Goose’ in “Topgun”.)Doug is a member of Legion Branch #24 in Cranbrook, BC.Jarosinski, Wieczyslaw (Tom)Tom was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1918. His family moved to Poland in1922 and when Russia invaded Poland in 1940, his father was arrested and theother members of his family deported to North Kazakhstan. When Russiabecame allied with Britain, Tom joined the army on November 11, 1941 underBritish command. He became an Infantry Officer in July 1942 with the Polish 6 thDivision. In August 1942, he went to Palestine via Iran and Lebanon. In July1944, Tom’s unit joined the 8 th British Army in Italy and saw action at Arcon andBologna. At the end of the war, he was troop train commander for one year,ferrying troops from Italy to Calais. Discharged in England on December 6,1947, Tom came to Ocean Falls, BC in April 1957 and settled in Lumby in 1972.He was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, the Italy Star, the Defence medal, the PolishArmy Battle Cross, and the Polish Defence medal and was a member of LegionBranch #167 in Lumby, BC for twenty-eight years. Tom died on March 2, 2005.Jefferies, FrankFrank was born in Bristol, England in 1925 and came to Canada as a “child war evacuee”in 1940. He joined the Canadian Army in 1943, qualifying as an infantryman andparachutist and serving with the 1 st Canadian Parachute Training Battalion, the 1 stBattalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, the Royal 22 e Regiment, and the1 st and 2 nd Battalions of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada. Serving in England as aninstructor from December 1944 until the end of the war, Frank stayed in the Army andwas commissioned in 1951. He served with the Royal 22e Regiment (Van Doos) in Koreafrom 1952 to 1953 and with NATO in Germany and the United Nations in the Republicof Congo. He also worked with the Canadian Forces Training Team in Accra, Ghana from1963 to 1963 as the chief instructor of the Ghanaian Army’s School of Infantry. In 1971,Frank retired from the Forces in Edmonton where he had been the Regional InformationOffice for Alberta. He joined the Legion in 1973 and is a Life Member of the Richmond,Ontario branch. He is now a member of Branch #26 in Kelowna, BC.www.legionbcyukon.ca151