SSR RET Pay FAS C2 Ce May NR AEDES TEAS TER FEI LITE PRN TEMAS PREIS ETN DALE LES BE TTA YETI LOI ETON SBME P I EBERT TAPERS ES INNES PRET EEE ZY SA RRS Y Pnsernreryrnamencunsnn er tates Doug Collins ® get this straight ® SOMETIMES I think we should forget Remembrance Day. We are remembering something, after all, that began 48 years ago and ended 42 years ago. In the case of the First World War, the time is not far off when there will be no one left from the brave days of old. But then I go into the West Van library and see that a page has been turned in the illuminated Book of Remembrance, as it has been every week since 1950 when Mrs. Marion Grigsby, formerly of Taylor Way, finished her long labor of love, stories were. Put it down to mor- bid curiosity or something. What happ2ned to W.0.2 FRY, Thomas William, who lost his life in the last month of the war? Or to W.O.1 HUM- PHREYS, Oliver Elvidg:, killed in March, 1944, some months SRE TELEN “*The reason I became a colonel,’’ he told me some years ago, “‘was that there was no aes one else left. Or pass the little war memorial on the other side of the street and see that someone has put fresh flowers on it. So I change my mind because people cannot forget what they remember, even though nearly half a century has passed since the last big dust-up. The ones who never came back would also have their doubts about Remembrance Day. They would say. with a grin that for most Canadians the day has become .just another holiday. No one’s to blame if it has. For _those born in the year Mrs. ‘Grigsby presented her beautiful book to the library, 1939-45 must seem almost as remote as Waterloo. Time like an ever roll- ing stream... So I don’t suppose many look at the names that shine up in gold . through the glass case. But I often do. And I wonder what their Collinses sold for lunch NORTH SHORE News columnist Doug Collins was included in a list of 120 items sold in a recent North. - --. Shore Association for the Mentally ’ -Handicapped (NSAMH) fund-rais- ing auction that. helped raise over $24,000 for the organization. .. The Oct. 30 NSAMH Auction ’87 was held at St. Catherine’s Anglican Church in North. Van- “couver with auctioneer Bill Henke of Port Coquitlam taking bids. A lunch date with Collins went ‘for $230, while.a lunch date with Capilano MP Mary Collins went for $235. :. Last year the NSAMH auction raised $17,000. CORRECTION | We regret that due to limited supply, the following items may not be available at all store locations during the BEST OF THE SEASON SALE flyer. 643454 13. pe. Cookware Set Wine ° ‘Cooler/Bucket Answering Mathine — 275 pes. Audio/Video Centre — 458 pes. Entertainment Centre * 342931 643783 841387 851766 (ee TEE ers before D-Day? Was he fighting in Italy? How did Pte. LAYTON, Peter Tolson, come to be with a British regiment, the Sherwood Foresters? And did Lance Cor- poral MARTIN, Robin McCalley, of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, die in some Japanese hell-hole of a Japanese prison camp as did so many Winnipegers? The date of his death — September 1944 — would indicate that he might have. Others are not so difficult to define. Lt. ALLEN, Carlton, was with the 28th Canadian Ar- moured Regiment, otherwise known as the B.C. Regiment or “The Dukes.”’ He died in August, 1944, the month they fought for Hill 195, near Caen. The engagement was an epic of valor. The 28th kept coming up the hill and the Germans kept shooting them t+) bits. Forty-four COMPUTER KEYBOARD tanks were lost that day, August 9, and the regiment suffered 200 casualties. All of its senior of- ficers were killed. Hill 195 was not taken, But not for lack of trying. Art Biddlecombe of North Van- couver survived that battle, as did Capt. John Toogood, later Col. Toogood, who used to be an ex- ecutive with the Vancouver Sun. “The reason | became a col- onel,’’ he told me some years ago, “was that there was no one else left.’’ The public cannot touch the Book of Remembrance. But the ever-helpful library staff produc- ed a copy and | counted the names. There are 69, which is an | impressive number considering that West Van wasa small place in those days with a population of about 8,500. If the proportion of air force deaths is anything to go by, most West Van men were attracted by flying. Of the 69, 42 were in the Royal Canadian Air Force and one was in the Royal Air Force. Twenty-one were in the army, and five in the Royal Canadian Navy or Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. There is some poetry in the book. It is not great poetry, but it fits. “Honor for them that watched the waves, “That stormed the ridge, that dared the air; “That claimed of right un- sullied graves, “Ana slumber with content- ment there,”” Allin all, I really do think it’s a bit too soon te forget. DRAWER... cast & CART “ATTACHES TO MOST DESKS” Catheart Office Furmituse & Stationery 1827 Capilano ° DRAPERY AND UPHOLSTERY FABRICS — Choose from 1000's of designs & patterns SANDERSON, AFTEX ROBERT ALLEN NOTE: All our fabrics are current designs — pro- fessionally made and in- stalled. NOT SECONDS OR DISCONTINUED LINES WILL DO ... {441 Clyde Ave. 984-DESK (3375) | ABBEY BLINDS VERTICAL BLINDS MINIS — MICROS PLEATED SHADES WOVEN WOODS sk about the New UIti E; One Touch Control 926-8819: IN-HOME SERVICE “ SERVING THE - NORTH SHORE West Vancouver 4 9 ~ Wednesday, November 11, 1987 - North Shore News PARK & FLY $4450 per day 8311 Sea Island Way, Richmond BC. 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