LANCE CORPORAL STEWART CULLETON. looking for info

I received a LOT of information and help from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Museum people. If you haven't been in touch with them as yet, I'd suggest contacting them and telling them your relative was one of the executed POWS and that you are wanting as much info as you can find out about him. I'm sure they will help you.

rifles@canada.com

And here is a link for the book "A Place of Honour" for the geographical places in Manitoba named after Fallen Manitoba soldiers: VBy the way ... you should be entitled to receive, or at least buy if no one else in the family has received the first certificate, a certified and signed map honouring Stewart and showing the location of the lake. It comes with a letter explaining the honour and signed by "up there" officials and arrives in a tube. Its coloured and beautiful for framing If you contact them and request one you'll find out whether you get a complimentary one or will have to buy one (very little money to buy them though!)

http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/ge...r-e/index.html

I have a copy (complimentary of WarAmps) of the Manitoba names and info extracted of just the RWR soldiers - below is exactly what's written for Stewart. I regret there is no photo of him included that I could scan and post for you

CULLETON, Lance Corporal Stewart R., of Badger (H 1713) Royal Winnipeg Rifles. He died on 8 June 1944 at the age of 24 and is commemorated at Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France. He was the son of Richard and Blanche Culleton and was survived by his wife Jean Culleton. Lance Corporal Culleton was "executed" while a prisoner of war after the Normandy landing.

Culleton Lake (64 N/14) North of Nueltin Lake was named after him in 1972.

That's it

Here's contact info about getting certificates:

Manitoba Geographical Names Program
Geomatics Branch
1007 Century Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3H 0W4
Telephone (204) 945-1798 or 945-1032
Fax (204) 945-1365
Email Des Kappel (dkappel@gov.mb.ca)

[Bob Carriere]

....area code 613......

If you give me more details of the lake in question I can try to find the information for you......

Boob

[rogerculleton]

thanks for all the info, i got cut off on friday and could not get back on this site until now. i'll be in st james on monday so i'll pick up a copy of that book" a place of honour" i i also heard theres a evans rapids named after my grandmothers brother bob.
what part of mb was your uncle from karman.

Hi Roger,

Yes, the forum has been acting up and causing frustrations with access and such. Sorry you were cut off midstream

If you have a library card maybe the library has copies of the books as well, or they can bring them in from other branches for you. (just another option)

My family/ Uncle Ed Smith is a country boy from Beaconia/Balsam Bay, edging SE corner of Lake Winnipeg, a short drive from Grand Beach and about half hour from Selkirk.

I don't think you've mentioned your relationship to Stewart but if your last name is Culleton as well, then I'm assuming a close relationship. You should be able to get Stewart's service records from National Archives ... do you know about that?

Roger, I just checked my booklet of RWR Manitoba soldiers names extracted from that Place of Honour book and found no Evans, so your Grandmothers brother must have served with another regiment. Would that be WW1 or WW2?

For your information - If WW1 - Archivianet has uploaded a lot of WW1 enlistment papers to online for free viewing, a continuing project, and you can copy/save them to your computer. I just did a search for "Robert Evans" for WW1 as an example and it comes up with 44 entries.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/a...=&interval=100

I went through opening up more than 200 Joseph Smith's to find my grandfathers papers. I hadn't been sure he served until I found them, so it was a great break!

I'll be back as I think of anything that might be helpful to you or if you ask questions people will jump in with answers or try to help. MLU is great for this!!!

Take care.