‘Two who have not forgotten

Old men forget; yet all shall be
> forgot, but he'll remember with
“advantages what deeds he did this
days Henry V.

THERE ARE only two of |
them left now. But they
haven’ forgotten.

And they are very old, for both
were In the 29th Battalion: Cana-
dian Expeditionary Force, that
Vancouver'sent to France in the,
1914-18 war to end all wars. .

oo Far many years the survivors
and thelt. families have held re-
union dinners, but recently they
held the last one.
eal! could have: been asad acca.
sion but it wasn't, The old songs
were sungs the ald Jokes were |
old.No tears were shed,
“Mrs. Lorna Schreiber af White
tock declared happily that she
- would soon be a NON-EEE-
.GEN-ARIAN, And have another
drink, young Doug...
A jot of Vancouver names
«fought in‘the 29th;-‘There was the

Asie Chief Justice Sherwood Lett,

whose wife was at this last event.:
And Qscar Orr, one of Van-'
“eouver’s greatest. magistrates.”
«Mr. Orr — in the early 1950s
we court reporters only. called him

Doug
Collins

rag

_ON THE OTHER HAND)

were all out looking for’ reprists
and racists, |

In the brave days of old the
voices of the soldiers reached

_ across to the enemy trenches,

which happened; Mrs. Schreiber's

fate husband told her, when the

29th and the Germans wished each

other a Happy Christmas in 1915.

It adtida't occur to them to shout
Happy Holidays, of course. Hap-
py Holidays hada’ t been invented
cither,

“And did you hear the one
about the Zeppelins that dropped
bombs on London?" she asked.
“There were these (wo nurses, and
one said to the others ‘Sure takes
your. mind off the warl! "

There's a memorial to the regi-
ment tn the PNE grounds and on
the last Sunday of every
September a service is held there.
Padre Lennox presiding.

Only a few people go, But all
the ghosts watch it, And they are
many. because 4,500 men had
served in the 291 h by the time the
last shot was fired, Three hundred
and fifty-five were decorated,
1,400 were wounded and 600
stayed in France for ever.

The two who are teft are Art
Castle of Burnaby, who is 96, and
Stan Akrigg, MM, of Ganges,
who Is 94. And one of these days
there will be none.

Shall all be forgot? Let's hone
Shakespeare got it wrong.

Wednesday, June 23, 1993 ~ North Shore News — 7

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Oscar when he wasn't around — |
-was 100 years of age when he died :
tast year. He attended his last eet
‘inner. when he. was 98. :

here are no Oscar Orrs around oa

‘today. Or if. there are I haven't

“come across them. He was a man
“of impeccable integrity — country’ .

‘first and self last

During the Sec World War, ;
‘for instance,’ he‘donated his mili-

; itary pension.to Canada. And he:
collected th old d age Pen

‘German metal half the size of a,

man's thumb went into his skull. :

The doctors took it out through

the roof of his mouth and he had
mounted on a plaque.:

‘om Fritz to ‘Oscar, ‘July 16, ©

eads the inscription on:

1
‘the'brass plate. There was also an ~.
tion on his forehead in the. *.

‘shay of an angry scar.

H world and that of he ater :

they
uver now? Not much; I think:

here were I no teachers’ strikes,” :

a dollar. was a dollar; the false

‘medium of television hadn’t been .::

‘thought of, the country hadn't

become.a huge complaint bureau,
en were ladies, or. tried to be, :

British Columbia was still British -

Columbia, people believed in hare :
or hi

Mr: Orr never stopped fi fi ghting,
To the end he was writing furious :
letters to politicians and the press.

‘Don’t die yet,’’ he told his
friend; the late Bil! Money of :
West Vancouver, ‘Not until

‘ou’ve voted against Mulroney!”

The’old soldiers at the dinner

didn’t look their age. Padre Harry.
Lennox, 95, who served with the: °

2Ist: Bn, CEF,; is a merry soul who .
could easily pass for:70. But he -
pe ormed the rites over many
dead i in France, where his own
colonel was killed beside him:
Someone’ ‘said that the fund
rom which the dinners were pro-
vided was originally set Up SO as.
to ensure that surviving members
cent burials. At which a

I don’ t want to odie. 1 just vant to's

20 home; You called me Baby ©
D :

The media weren * there, natu.
Story, in the 29th. They’

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