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On December 11, 2009, the Sick and Visiting Committee of the General Stewart Branch #4 of the Royal Canadian Legion delivered poinsettias to sixty five veterans and Legion members at various Assisted Living Facilities and Long Term Care Centres in Lethbridge. The Committee visits monthly giving comraderie and comfort to these members.

Names are back row left to right

Helen McKenzie, Stan Dean, Guy Sorensen, Cindy Sorensen, Ted Hrysiak

Front row left to right

Gary McLean, Jacquie McLean (Chairman), John McMillan, Dennis Coburn (Branch President)

Legion manager Jeff Alden left and Service Officer Glenn Miller presented MP Rick Casson with 44, $5 gift cards, for the troops purchased by members of General Stewart Branch as part of the on going campaign to provide troops with a reminder of home while serving overseas.

Halloween Costume Party great success

Barmaids take a short pause for a smile

New Dance floor gets a workout

Membership alive and well

The man behind the music, somewhere

Ready to give misconduct

Terry dressed as a Vampire waits to serve you in her lair

The Legion wishes to thank youth organization such as Girl Guides and local Cadet groups that play such a vital role in making tag day(Poppy Day) a success.

Well Done!

Navy Cadet Leading Seaman Tamara Robert and Navy League Cadet Dustin Archambeault provides poppies

to customers at Tim Hortons on Mayor Mcgrath Drive South

Navy Cadet Master Seaman Kyra Robert provides poppies at to Walmart customers on Mayor Mcgrath Drive South

Legion Pipe Band

Ceilidh Fundraiser

Saturday 17 October 2009

Featuring the ceilidh band GlenMorin, the Legion Pipe Band and solo piping from Shawn Pinder

Piper Shawn Pinder makes it look easy as he dazzles the crowd with his amazing ability to play a variety of speeds.

Breast Cancer Walk

Congratulations to the Lethbridge Legion Staff team who raised $1500 towards finding a cure on 4 Oct and thanks all of their donors.

War brides Hilda Scovill, Hazel West and Mary Skrukwa stand beside the ship Aquitania which carried them to Canada. The artist is AF Bishop and is printed on tin metal.

10 new members join the Legion

Congratualtions go to Linda Gallant 1st Vice President who received her Lifetime Membership from Past President John McMillan during the General meeting 22 September 2009.

President Dennis Coburn received Lifetime Membership

from Past President John McMillan

Priesdent Dennis Coburn congratulates Don Besse who received his 65 year pin

A wreath is placed at the cenotoaph in memory of Walter James Hartman

65 years ago, one month after D-Day, a Halifax plane from 298 Squadron crashed in a village in France. All crew died on the scene. In this plane, which was full of ammunitions for the French underground, were three British and three Canadian airmen.

In March of 2001, Monsieur Alain Berthelot became mayor of this village – Larre (Normandy). Within months, he went to visit the two great Canadian cemeteries in Normandy (Beny-sur-Mer and Bretteville-sur-Laize) with the goal of finding out something of the background of the Canadians: Joseph Wilfried Fornier, William Linning, and Derwood Smith. Another Canadian who died in the village during the war was born in the same Canadian town as Monsieur Berthelot’s mother, and gave the mayor an interest in searching for the families of the airmen involved in the crash. The information he gained at the Canadian cemeteries was precise enough to enable a further search.

Since that time, Monsieur Berthelot and his wife, Catherine, have made four trips to Canada to visit the families of those Canadians who perished in the crash, and one family has made a return visit to Larre to pay tribute to the crew in front of the crash field.

Monsieur Berthelot’s research has revealed that Flying Officer Wireless Operator Air Gunner William Linning J20858 was actually born in Lethbridge, Alberta. On August 19 2009, the Berthelots visited Lethbridge to tell our citizens that, “somewhere in a small village in Normandy, a man from Lethbridge is not forgotten.”

Linning is buried at Breteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetary.

france flag placed in memory of W.E. Linning

A French flag was placed at the base of the cenotaph as a tribute to W.E. Linning who is still remembered by the village of Larre by Mayor Alain Berthelot, during his visit to Lethbridge 19 August 2009.

A piece of the plane wreckage that W.E. Linning was shot down in brought back by Alain Berthelot, Mayor of Larre.

Whoop up days parade

Local celebrity Dory Rossiter and friend of the legion poses with Afghanistan Veteran Brent Ginther and veteran Lief Larson,handing out flags in his personal float, and other members,staff and family before the parade starts.