2011 Convention – Penticton, BC - Legion

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Jones, James D. R. (Jim)
Jim joined the Royal Canadian Regiment on July 22, 1964. He has been a
member of Legion Branch #26 in Kelowna for seventeen years.
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Jenkins, Arthur Charles
Arthur was born in New Westminster in 1923. He enlisted in November
1942 and served in Canada, England, Italy, and Northwest Europe with the
Royal Canadian Regiment in World War Two. Arthur has been a member of
Legion Branch #2 in New Westminster since the end of the War.
Jones, William F. (Bill)
Bill was born in Toronto, Ontario on April 7, 1935 and joined the Canadian Forces on
September 8, 1953 in North Bay, Ontario. He served at St Jean, QC, Aylmer, ON,
Edmonton, AB, and Zweibrücken, Germany (with 3 Fighter Wing) on contact training as a
recreation specialist and in 1960, continued his training in Aylmer, ON. He then served in
Moose Jaw, SK; Inuvik, NWT; Shearwater, NS; Gagetown, NB; and Esquimalt, BC before
retiring in 1980. He joined the Legion in 1972 in Inuvik and then moved to Langford,
Salmon Arm, and then Sooke Branch #54. He held many executive positions including two
terms as Vice President, three as President. He was Deputy Zone Commander from 2001-
2003. He became a Life Member in 1997 and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.
In 2003, he received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for Community Services in Sooke and the
Sooke District Volunteer Service Certificate. Bill continues to serve on the Poppy
Committee, was an active member of the Colour Party for fifteen years and carried the
Olympic torch for the BC/Yukon Command in the 2010 torch relay.
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