Volume 6 - Legion BC/Yukon Command Website

British ColumBia / Yukon CommandStainton, LionelLionel was born in Trail, BC. He joined the Army when he was 21 in June1942. He served as a driver-mechanic with the 6 th Field Regiment, RoyalCanadian Artillery, driving off a landing craft on D-Day and seeing actionin France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He also acted as a dispatch riderbetween the guns and the front. Lionel remembers digging a slit trenchunder his truck for rudimentary shelter against the routine nightlybombardments and also capturing a turkey on an abandoned Dutch farm andturning it over to a cook who turned it into a sumptuous meal for the lads.After being discharged in 1946, Lionel returned to Nelson. He worked at theCominco smelter in Trail, farming, truck driving, and operating a servicestation at Balfour where he finally settled. Lionel retired as Assistantmaintenance Supervisor for the Nelson School District in 1986.Steeves, Fred WilliamFred was born in Stettler, Alberta in 1918. He joined the Canadian ScottishRegiment in Penticton, BC in June 1940 and trained in Debert, Nova Scotiaafter which he was sent to Aldershot, England in 1941. He met his futurewife Audrey, a member of the ATS, and they married in 1943. Fred wastransferred to the Royal Engineers, Railway Operating Company and wassent to France in August 1944. He served in Germany until the end of thewar. He was awarded the 1939-1945 War Medal, the Canadian VolunteerService Medal, the Defence Medal, and the France and Germany Star. Afterreceiving his discharge at Little Mountain, Vancouver in September 1945,Fred returned to Penticton. He moved to Okanagan Falls in 1950 andworked mostly in construction. Fred was a member of Legion Branch #227in Okanagan Falls for twenty-three years, serving as President in 1966. Hedied in November 1988.Stoddart, Garry LawrenceGarry was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1934. He enlisted in the PrincessPatricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in June 1951 and took paratroopertraining at Camp Shilo and Camp Rivers, Manitoba. Garry served first withthe 1 st Battalion and later the 2 nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s inCanada and with the 3 rd Battalion in Korea in 1953. Garry has been amember of Legion Branch #288 in Westbank, BC for eleven years.www.legionbcyukon.ca263