Volume 6 - Legion BC/Yukon Command Website

British ColumBia / Yukon CommandAmesbury, CliffCliff enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps in September1943. He took basic training in Red Deer, Alberta and was a Corporal forabout six months before reverting to Private in order to go overseas. Cliffserved in England, Belgium, Holland, and Germany and after VE Day,volunteered for service in the Pacific Theatre. He was home in Vancouveron two weeks leave and “having a beer with a Navy buddy” when thePacific War ended. Cliff is a member of Legion Branch #88 in Maple Ridge.Antrobus, Herman Douglas (Doug)Doug was born in Fort William, Ontario on November 27, 1926. He enlistedin the Army in Toronto when he was 17, trained in Manitoba and servedwith the Royal Canadian Artillery in Newfoundland, which was thenconsidered overseas since it was yet part of Canada. His job was to watchfor submarine activity in the Atlantic Ocean. One submarine surrendered tohis outpost just before the War ended. Doug’s brother Bill served in theBlack Watch. Doug has been a Legion member for 54 years with Branch#48 in Vancouver and now Branch #16 in South Vancouver, BC.Appel, Frank JosephFrank was born in Cloverdale, BC in 1896. He enlisted with the CalgaryHighlanders in 1917. He served in the trenches and was gassed but hesurvived because the soldier next to him put his gas mask on. Near the endof the war, he was involved in an attack in which his unit captured threevillages but they were surrounded and captured. He was a POW until thewar ended. He returned to Canada exactly one year after he had enlisted.Frank became a game warden and later a farmer. He helped build theAgassiz Legion and the community’s Catholic Church and was involvedwith the School Board and the Agricultural Society. Frank died in 1983.www.legionbcyukon.ca55