"Tommy Prince - WWII & Korean War Native Veteran Sgt. Tommy Prince, from Brokenhead Band in Scanterbury, Manitoba, received the highest military decorations for bravery, the Silver Star and the Military Medal. An excellent marksman, Tommy was an army spotter in WWII in Europe and brought down heavy artillery fire on the enemy at the risk of his life. He served in the elite "Devil's Brigade" for the duration of the War, then reenlisted in the Korean War
years later. Tommy wore well the mantle of his grandfather, Peguis, the famous Saulteaux Chief."

Tommy Prince is another of my "relations"... sort of. My Mom's (and Rifleman Edward Smith's) sister Janice married Tommy's brother. In later life, Tommy married (by common-law) Verna Sinclair. Verna is the sister of my mothers first husband.

Back home was a small place, many surnames and families are very old Red River Settlement families....AND New Iceland families. Many never left the area.... communities concentrated mostly around the SE corner of Lake Winnipeg, but some across the lake. A lot of these folks, during WW2, were with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, (and PPCLI and I don't know what other regiments etc) Its mentioned that Tommy Prince (Thomas George Prince) was with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles for a while.

Geneology is an amazing... and very surprizing thing sometimes Heroes and skeletons... sometimes the skeletons are the heroes... and so on.

Its amazing how "forgotten" some of these amazing men were. Outta site...outta mind?

I'm glad we have sh*t-disturbers to make people pay attention because sometimes it actually works... eventually.

Ouch!