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the tribune stouffville ont thursday jan 29th 1942 i- v pagb we are all in many local families send two sons and more ono town family have seen three hoys leave while two from country jilso send three no loss than a dozen families from this immediate locality have sent at least two sons to this world war no 2 one family here has 3 members enrolled probably first and one of the closest is that of mr and mrs alfred push in the east end whose three boys imorley price and milliard are all serving all three boys are in the army two overseas mr and mrs gjrw thomas boys alfred and james are both overseas with the rcaf in the family of mr and mrs arthur clarkson both father and son bert are membeis of the royal regiment two sons of mr and mrs ab lehman goidon and donald volunteered for service gor don is now overseas donald after training at camp borden for over six months was released through ill health he is now employed by a big meat market at lindsay two boys of mr and mrs john castle fred and billy have also been serving fred has been overseas for over a year while billy who joined the mer chant marine in an effort to get to england and a navy jod was caught on the torpedoed american ship bold venture and at time of writing no word- has been received from him bruce and charlie sons of mr and mrs ed lintner are membeis of the royals bruce being in england and charlie in newfoundland mr and mrs a abell ringwood have two sons serving also mr ind mrs ross harper lloyd and robert sib ley sons of mr jerry sibley whit church is another wollknown bro ther team while the cutlers at ball- antrae we understand boasts three members of the family in khaki walter cowie oveibeas our military district has 52000 men in the army total of 293717 in all sen ices from dominion toronto distutt iir 52911 men in arm eakl mcnaht chas davis enlistments in the canadian aim ed foices veie detailed by piovmtes in d ret in n tabled in the houe of commons are as tollows figuies given tor tho aimy nav and air foice in the pewod toin sept 1939 to oct 1941 totalled 293717 enlistment of officers and latin in the na numbered 26750 and were divided pimce edwaid island 707 nova scotia 3189 new bums- wick 978 quebec 4077 ontauo 8675 manitoba 1747 saskatche wan 1471 albeita 1909 and bntisli columbia 3697 aimy figuies which totalled 277- 767 were given b distncts no 1 london ont 20946 no 2 toronto 52911 no 3 kingston including the quebec counties of gatincau pontiac and temiscanun- gue 28389 no 1 quebec 34616 no 5 quebec 12940 no 6 nova scotia and pi i nee edwaid island 23030 no 7 new rujiicwick 3 6- 126 no 10 manitoba and the dis- ti let of kenora rainy rivei and thunder bay in ontauo 23915 no 11 british columbia and the yukon 24501 no 12 saskatchewan is- 021 no 13 albeiu and district of mackenzie 22372 the 89200 membeis of the royal canadian air foice who enlisted during that period including 236 members of the canadian women auxiliaiy air force were divided british columbia s141 alberta 8395 saskatchewan 9415 mani toba 10238 ontailo 36277 que bec 9632 new brunswick 329s nova scotia 2962 and prince ed ward island 812 wwuc harry brown west coast glen gibbons wliin mccoworilte gkorge davis overseas both officers in the rcaf kwrih percy ftpher invalided home james thomas overseas sgt pilot alfred thomas and pilot officer james thomas sons of mr and mrs g r w thomas of stoultvlilc who are both over seas with the rcaf the boys received their training at eglinton initial training school and malton they are nephows of detective sgt arthur harris of tho toronto police force alfred was recestly in hospital following slight injuries which he suffered when he made a crash landing over forty thousand cigarettes reach boys from comfort fund twentytwo lios now being sup plied with smokes each month a total of 40500 cigarettes have been shipped overseas by the veter ans comfort fund since the out break of war in addition eleven small monthly parcels have proceed ed to england and eighteen christ mas parcels besides these overseas shipments parcels have also been sent to local members of the veter ans home guard in northern on tario prison camps a total or some 250 has been collected by the fund in nine months much of this amount being sub scribed through the coin bottles that have been distributed among the local stores when this movement was begun only six boys were receiving monthly allotments of cigarettes since that time nearly a years ago this num ber has risen from a half dozen to twentytwo and requires an outlay of neaily 2500 fo take care of smok- eis and nonsmokeis pte biuce lintner and pte fred castle born and laised as chums in the east end of town the two went overseas together and have been on coastal defence in the british isles of late they are two of the most regular coi respondents to the com- foitfund harold lewis overseas with hoxg kong garrison pte sam anderson is a member of the signallers corps and is at present somewhere in nova scotia he was formerly employed by the b s telephone company elmer winn allen harper overseas pte allen harper son of mr and mrs ross harper of the 6th of whit- chuich was a member of the garri son which made such a heroic stand at hong kong since the japanese have yet to release the list of prison ers taken no definite word has been leceived by his parents a letter was received by mr harper a week ago from one of the officers who was successful along with a couple of dozen others in making his escape by motorboat but he could give the parents no word of their son s- s r r i if mpl james cooney around the world jack talbot donald rowbothaji wallace byer was raised in stouff- vllle by his grandparents the late mr and mis geo bowers wally has been practically around the world with the merchant- marine he was shelled by the germans last spring while aboard a greek vessel and was adrift in the north sea for three davs when his norwegian ship was i torpedoed latest report from him was datelined cape town chas lintner newfoundland t canadian v claremont girl overseas was crack shot r j 4 wiris i si v 4-