In memory of and great thanks to

Today I remember all those who have served and do serve in the armed forces.

In particular:

Rubin Baker, 1888 - 1974, my grandfather who at the age of 24 volunteered for WWI. He was assigned the task of being a stretcher bearer carrying out the wounded from within the trenches. His service in the war is what brought him to Canada from Wales. The WWI "Soldiers Settlement Plan" provided soldiers with a quarter section of farmland in Canada. My grandparents land was 120 miles northeast of Edmonton near the town of Ashmont, which coincedently corespondes with his home in Wales, Mountain Ash. They came to Canada on a Canadian Steamship Liner,"The Montnairn" (pre PMPM days...lol)

Arthur Baker, 1923 - 2004, My father at the age of 21, landed on juno beach with a group of engineers. There primary job was to give targeting information to artillary and bombers. Once on the move they went ahead of the main forces searching the routes and sweeping them of land mines. One of the tactics that they would use to clear buildings along the way may have been concidered very unorthadox but was very succesful. They would open a door to a building, toss a "sten gun", a small machine gun inside. These guns had a very sensitive trigger and would go off when they hit the floor. The design of the gun with its side ammo clip and short stock would allow it to spin in the room firing in all directions.

Albert Morrison, 1933 - , my step father served with the Black Watch in Korea.