GEOFF.....I'm KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED and
HOPING SOMEONE IS ABLE TO HELP IMMEDIATELY!!!
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ART: April 12....hmmm.
`April is the cruelest month...
but it sure brings some wonderful
souls, young, medium and old
I'd love a copy of the clipping
if possible. My Uncle was probably
blue-eyed and fair skinned... must be
all the English and Scottish genes.
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Now: here is a LIST:
LIST OF THE 40 MEN WITH MY UNCLE on JUNE 8.
5 of those men survived it says.
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Here are the exact words exerpted from
Conduct Unbecoming, by Howard Margolian
copyright 1998:
...page 90:
...a smaller group, totalling forty prisoners -
Lieutenant William Ferguson
Sargeant James Reid
Corporals,
George Brown
Roger Firman
Clare Kines
James Kyle
Hector McLean and
Robert Scott
Lance Corporals,
Stewart Culleton and
John Hill and
Privates,
Walter Booth
Ernest Bradley
Walter Daniels
Arthur Desjarlais
Gordon Ferris
Robert Findlay
Lant Freeman
Lawrence Guiboche
Charles Horton
Henry Jones
Elmer Lefort
Gordon Lewis
John MacDougal
Angus MacLeod
Frederick Marych
Wesley Morrison
Percy Parisian
Alfred Peterson
Frank Ryckman
Kjartan Sigurdson
Edward Smith and
John Thompson
all of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and
Private
Richard Smith of the Queens Own Rifles
Lieutenant
Reginald Barker,
Sargeant
William Beresford, and
Gunners
Hilliard Birston
Weldon Clark
Thomas Grant, and
Alvin Harkness
of the 3rd Canadian Anti-Tank Regiment, and
Private
Donald Burnett of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
PAGE 93:
...of the forty prisoners who found themselves in the Germans’
gunsights on that fateful night of 8 June, only five-
Corporal MacLean, and Privates Ferris, MacDougal, and
Desjarlais of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, along with
Gunner Clark of the 3rd Anti-Tank Regiment -
lived to tell about it.
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the book goes on to say the surviving five men were recaptured
almost immediately by other German units in the area and were held
as POWS for months it appears....so it was months before they were
able to `tell’ everyone what happened.
The German Units involved in the massacre of my Uncle and the
other men were never `identified’ it appears. So there was no
justice done for these particular men. Wilhelm Mohnke was
the one who ordered the unjustified murders. Not enuf evidence
or witness info to do anything I guess.
I read that he (Wilhelm Monke) lived long...died not too long ago.