2011 Convention – Penticton, BC - Legion

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Lawry, Archie
Archie was born in Wales in 1895. He served with the Welsh Dragoon
Guards in France in World War One and in Canada and England with the 8 th
Canadian Field Artillery RCA in World War Two. Archie was awarded the
Military Medal for retrieving an officer under heavy enemy fire in World
War One. He enlisted as a Gunner and reached the rank of Battalion
Quartermaster Sergeant. Archie was a member of Fernie Legion Branch #36
for fifty-one years.
BRITISH COLUMBIA / YUKON COMMAND
Latremouille, Joseph Louis (Louie)
Louie was born in Little Fort, BC in 1915. He worked for the British
Columbia Forest Service in Merritt before he enlisted in the Army in
Vancouver on July 29, 1942. He served in Canada during World War Two
until he was discharged in Vancouver on March 15, 1946. He was awarded
the War Medal 1939-1945. Louie died in Merritt, BC in 2005.
Laycock, Jessie Joan
Joan was born in Eccleshill, Bradford, Yorkshire, England on June 24, 1924.
She enlisted in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) on April 14, 1942
when she was seventeen and trained at Morecambe, Lancashire, England.
She was posted to a Balloon Barrage unit guarding the Imperial Chemical
Industry’s plant in Durham County, an important industrial target for
German bombers. In 1943, Joan remustered as a driver by standing on
pebbles when she was measured to reach the minimum height requirement
of five feet two inches, and was sent to North Wales for training. She spent
the next two and a half years in Inverness, Scotland where for a time, she
enjoyed the company of her sister, who was also a member of the WAAF.
Joan drove staff cars, large trucks, and ambulances in Scotland and then
went to the Isle of Wight for the remainder of the war. Joan and her husband
and four children came to Canada in 1957.
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