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Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 5

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Star-Phoenixi
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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5
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SASKATOON TUESDAY, MARCH 27. 1313 PAGE FIVE HONEY GOOD QUALITY NO. 2 2 lbs 59c 4 lbs 77c Cenerous Coupon Value Only One Coupon Required for Each 2 Lbs. PEANUT BUTTER Jar Squirrel, 24-oz. H.

Cook. 22, Cumberland House, missed the special hospital tialn at Winnipeg, He had contacted the army provosts, who arranged that he catch a train which left 40 minutes later. An infantryman with the Princess Louise Dtagoons in Sicily, and with a mortar crew in, Italy, Cook was wounded in the head by shrapnel just past Rimini. Leading six lorries on his motorbike, Pte. Steve Zabos, 22, St.

Brieux, came very nearly driving into enen' lines one night in France. Unablu to read his map because of darkness, he stopped and dls covered he had gone a half-mile further than he was supposed to. As it was, everything turned out O.K., said Zabos, but it could have been worse. He was wounded just before the Seine, when a shell struck hie bike" and he woke up in hospital with an injured right leg. A brother, Frank, 24, is a transport driver with the army in Italy.

CONTINUED I ROM PAGE THREE SOLDIERS RETURN City, was on rotation leava and aid left his unit, the Saskatoon Light Infantry, at the Senlo River in Italy. The S.L.I. sergeant recalled one hazardous Incident when 60 of them had taken rations through the Jerry lines to the 48th Highlanders one Christmas night. Led by Captain East and Captain Pepper, McLean said it wee due largely to the two officers that th--v got through. "It was so dark you couldn't see your hands," said McLean, and it was "plenty exciting." We went to church for a while after that," remarked the S.L.I.

machine-gunner. A younger brother, Neil, 22, Is with the S.L.I. In Italy, another brother Is a pilot officer in the air force, was Interned in Sweden after being shot down, was released and had completed his tour of TOMATO JUICE S2ST Tin 1 1C wjrt A (2 Choice, H.S. Flemish Beauty, Aylmer, 20-oz. Tin 17C UJfN A Choice, Sieve 5, Medo, 20-oz.

Tin 14C advance area at the time which was shelled by the Germans. Caught in a Jerry mortar barrage was Rfm. Rene Poncelet, White-wood. I took cover in a trench," said Poncelet, but shrapnel got me, the last bomb landing so close it caved the ground in on me. Poncelet was with the Winnipeg Rifles in France, Belgium and Holland.

Sgt. Arnold Tate, Melville, was in France in 1940 for a few days, he said. The Melville soldier also saw action in Sicily and Italy and came back on rotation leave. Just after they landed in Sicily he had been burnt when a shell exploded a can of gasoline. Two brothers were in the army, Lome, 23, in Holland, and Del, 21.

in Italy. I certainly am glad to be back and thrilled with the friendly reception accorded us. said Pte Arne Sippola, 24, of Wapella. Sippola served with the Princess Louise Fusiliers in the Italian campaign. Hottest fighting I was in was at the Leopold Canal in Belgium said Rfn.

Gilbert Townsend, 23. Bladworth. He went Into action on D-plus-two with Regina Rifles, was first hit in the left arm by shrapnel in July. In action in September again he was wounded a second time in the right foot by a grenade. Most conspicuous thing about smiling Ed Lescelleur, 28, Vonda, was a beautiful coat of tan which he explained he got aboard ship from the sea air.

He was a five-year man, was machine-gunner who had fought I with the S.L.I. in Sicily and Italy. I A prisoners of the Germans for 24 months, and then liberated when the Americans captured Paris in August, was Pte. Robert Gregor-son, 25, Plnkham. On D-Day, Gregorson, with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, I dropped about 15 miles inland.

I I broke my leg on the Jump" he explained, and the Jerries picked me up." I The Germans set his leg wrong. 1 the paratrooper said, and it had to be reset after he was freed. Gregorson, who wore paratroopi wings and 1st Canadian Parachute Division maroon patches, went overseas in March, 1842. If GRAHAM WAFERS 21c At the dykes in Holland when a dozen or more Jerries were attacking, Pte. William Pederson, 30, a Bren gunner with the Calgary Highlanders had been wounded.

The Hyas soldier explained he had been in one of the front trenches during the night he was hit. Hearing the Jerries, he had opened fire, but a grenade came over, from which he had received a broken left leg and a foot Injury. Pederson said the attack was broken up, however, and the Germans were either killed or captured. A full-blooded Indian, Pte. John Marmalade A young veteran of the Belgium and Holland campaigns, Pte.

Stuart McKay, North Battleford, had bis left leg in a cast due to a compound fracture caused by mortar shrapnel I wouldnt want to have another experience like that," said C.Q.M.S Andy Kerr, Wynyard, when he relating an incident that occurred in Italy. "I was Just Jumping from a truck when a hunk of shrapnel tore through the truck's covering and splintered the chair I had been sitting In. C.Q.M.S. Kerr was later wounded in the left leg, and returned on rotation leave. Pte.

S. J. Watts, Mervin, returned with an army issue blanket that he vowed he would never part with. The blanket was riddled by shrapnel Just a few minutes before Private Watts bedtime, just before Ortona. "It was Just at dusk one night in December, 1943, he said.

I had my bedroll laid out in my slit trench and was about ready to roll in when the shells came down. The blanket will be my souvenir. He was overseas five years and five months. OLIVES Wagstaffe's 9-oz. jar 25 SOUP CAMPBELL'S Vegetable, Vegetarian tin 50C tin 32C Milk fat tin 9c Dinner pkg- 17c vV VfGETABLf Htlp avid DIAPIR CHAPPING, IRRITATION I Now you may actually help void Diaper Rath, Impetigo, nd other imtationt keep PUFFED WHEAT, OQ Redberry, bushel bag Cww SOUP MIX, Liptons dj pkgs.

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L. Sellinger, 28, Dllke, who fought in France with the Queens Own Cameron High landers. He was in a brick house in an PANCAKE FLOUR Aunt Jemima 21... 38c 17c CUTICURA ANTISEPTIC BABY OH FOR EASTER Grads Large doz. 39c RINSO pke.

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With the engineers, Brown drove a wireless truck In France, Belgium and Holland. At ths Maas River he was wounded when a V-bomb landed about 20 yards away. Entering the depot Saturday night with his right arm In a aling was Pte. Peter Coleman, Lloyd-mlneter. Referring to hie injuries, Private Coleman said, "I stopped a machine-gun slug during an attack to clear out German fortifications In the Hochefeld Forest sector.

"We've had tome tough fighting, hut the Germans never once broke through the Canadian lines, remarked Coleman. Private Coleman was hit bv shrapnel on three occaalona, once nearly losing the eight of en eye. He served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment In Belgium and Holland. Sweet Potatoes 2 lbs. 27C Louisiana Yams Grapefruit Seedless, 64s 2 for 25C 96s 3 fr 25c P1APPIE FRESH CUBAN Lb.

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15c A member of Regina Rifles, Pte. Norman Pollock, 21, Prince Albert, went in on D-Day and was with I the regiment In France, Belgium and Just over the border In Holland. If On October 16 he was wounded 1 In the neck by shrapnel and said he "was really dazed. Two of the boys got a stretcher and took me back, he said, and "then I spent 58 days in a Belgian hospital. Three brothers are In the army i Earl, 23, In Italy, Gordon, 26, in Holland, and Roy, 20, in Britain, had been wounded In France, 1 Trust the youngsters to reed what it says oo the package of their big flavor favorite! Thats why they know that Grape -Nuts supply: Caibohydkates for energy Phosphorus for bones end teeth Iron for the blood Proteins for muscle-building But when they taste that grand malty-rich Grape-Nuts flavor, they almost forget as vou will how nourishing Grape-Nuts are! That's because Grape-Nuts are so really different so different in their delightfully chewy kernels, in their one-and-only nut-like Grape-Nuts flavor! Get Grape-Nuts tomorrow and see! DAFTODIES For Easter Dozen 39c CABBAGE Texas New Lb.

6c AT0 IS Grr. Nordwell Laventure, 81, i Asquith, had been seven years away from home. He was In Montreal at the outbreak of war when he enlisted. Laventure saw tough fighting In i Sicily, Italy, and waa wounded by mortar shrapnel July 21 "up by Pescara, he said. I didn't Ilka it a boat la no place for a soldier, he replied with a grin when asked how he liked the trip back.

Prior to the war ha worked In the mines In northern Ontario. Two brothers are In the army, a 22-year-old brother la in France, and another brother, who la 28, la an officer. rape -Nuts Mse HAMS BONELESS 49c HAMS Sliced, Boneless TO FRY Sr 52c Picnics Boneless, QQg per lb WbC 24c 5 A PftiotA tf fed Graded Beef BUTTS ib. 30c THE EASY IS THE BEST WAY! CHOICE VEAL 38c 24cirhir.K. 33c 90 8TE0GUAI, 4F- MOW I Breast.

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25c An artilleryman, Grr. Bernard Wshynskl, 27, Eletow, took part In the campaigns which carried them into France, across Belgium and. I into Holland. I In a battle ha had Jumped off a self-propelled gun and had sprained the muscles la his leg. With the Invasion forces on D-Day was Pte.

Mika Holynaty. 37, Wakaw, who fought with an Eastern Canada regiment In the fighting at Caen, In France. Holynaty had been wounded. A brother. John.

26. Is In Italy, another brother with the army in Canada. To have the pistol grip shot off the machine-gun he was carrying was one of the many harrowing experiences for Pte. Lenard Holts-man, Saskatoon. Private Hnltxman saw action with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment In Italy.

"We were treated like millionaires coming back." said Pte. Kenneth Allen. 28. Renown, a member of the Queen's Own i Cameron Highlanders. Allen got Into th fighting In Franca In July and went as far aa the Seine River, where he waa wounded in the stomach by shrapnel, August 28.

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