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10-03-03, 00:56
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GEOFF/ART/ EVERYONE
GEOFF.....I'm KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED and
HOPING SOMEONE IS ABLE TO HELP IMMEDIATELY!!! ======================================== 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. ------------------------------------- Now: here is a LIST: LIST OF THE 40 MEN WITH MY UNCLE on JUNE 8. 5 of those men survived it says. ------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------- 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. 
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Mark W. Tonner 
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