24 — Sunday. Nuvemoer 8. 1996 - Noanh Share News

NEWS S photo Mike Wakefield

DICK Roberts will gather with other war veterans at
the cenotaph in Victoria Park this Remembrance Day.

The Feeling

“Lately | have no energy or enthusiasm for anything,
I don’t know what's wrong. | catch myself

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and forget what I was louking for. It's awful,

but I don’t know what 10 do.”

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“Lynn Vailey veteran
«Still serving Canada

“YOUNG people don't
know about wartime,”
says Dick Roberts, a
Second World War vet-
eran, and an active
member of the Royal
Canadian Legion,
Branch 114 in Lynn
Valley.

He feels that an important
part of Canada’s history iy in
danger of being torgotien.
Many Canadians who tought
in two world wars, in Korea
or with the United Nations
Forces are geting older, And
their stories may be lost if
they are not recorded.

Dick's experience with the
17th Canadian Anti-aircratt
Battery started when he
enlisted in Calgary at age 18.
(He tricd to sign up when he
was just. 17, hut was rejected
on medical grounds; a year
later he was assessed as being

on the
scene

POO". fii.

After rang in Canada,
Dick was sent overseas where
he was assiened to work with
the Royal Canadian Corps of
Signals, He spent two years
in a number of towns on the

cast, south and west coasts oF

Enuland, wang tracer bullets
to identity enemy aireratt.
Then in 1943, bis unit
crowed the English Channet
in snl boats, landing in
Caen, France 30 days after
D-Day. They moved around
France, Germany, Holland,
and Belgium, sending signals

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bak teantorm the ground
troops as to what hay abead et
thesy Sometimes the mien
shmibed into church steeples,
other times thee were 1a
trenehes, wdenutemys airerati
and troop movements

AMtter tbe war ended in
J945, Dick was sent back to
kngiand and assigned te the
Canadian Army Headquarters
in London,

Durning chis time, he meta
Welsh girl, Brenda Davis,
who was with the ATS
(Ausiliary Yerritorial

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