Volume 53 Number 45 November 10, 2008 2 • LOOKOUT November 10, 2008 DON'T DRINK FFromrom tthehe CChiefhief ooff tthehe DDefenceefence SStafftaff Etched in our memories are the sac- rifices and selfless deeds of those who have nobly served Canada before us. I am truly honoured to mark this Remembrance Day as your Chief of the Defence Staff. This year’s commemoration is especially significant as we observe the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War. On Nov. 11, 1918, the guns final- ly fell silent on the battlefields of Europe. It was on those battlefields that our forebearers set a standard of military excellence that has been upheld by generations of Canadians that served after them. OWN YOUR OWN HOME DEBT CONSOLIDATE From the trenches of Ypres to the MCpl Dan Mallette, Base Imaging Esquimalt beaches of Normandy to the Kapyong Rear Admiral Tyrone Pile (right), Commander Maritime Forces Pacific/Joint Task Force Pacific, General Walt Natynczyk (centre), Best Rates. 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IN HONOUR OF Now Serving The Defence The following lists the times and locations of the ceremonies, NOVEMBER 11 as well as the names of the individuals who will lay Team wreaths on behalf of the Canadian Forces: with CANEX Financing 9:45 a.m. VICTORIA SAANICH Legislature Building Municipal Hall at 770 Vernon 250-477-7612 VETERANS’ CEMETERY Rear-Admiral Tyrone Pile, Commander, Avenue 1190 Colville Road Maritime Forces Pacific/Joint Task Major Barry Walker, Commanding 3672 Shelbourne St. (Shelbourne Plaza) Lieutenant-Colonel Phyllis O’Grady, Force (Pacific) Officer, 11 Field Ambulance Commanding Officer, Canadian Forces (Victoria) Health Services Centre (Pacific) ESQUIMALT Memorial Park Cenotaph at 1229 SOOKE 10:00 a.m. Esquimalt Road Sooke Branch of the Royal Canadian HARRESON’S IS Captain (Navy) Marcel Hallé, Base Legion at 6726 Eustace Road Your outdoor gear specialists: • Hunting iinn VVictoriaictoria COBBLE HILL Commander, Canadian Forces Base Captain (N) Gilles Couturier, • Paintball • Fishing Cobble Hill Community Hall fol- Esquimalt Commander, Maritime Operations • Military uniforms, • Camping boots & accoutrements lowed by ceremony at the cenotaph Group Four at Liberation Park (behind the com- WEST SHORE COMMUNITIES WWee bbuyuy mmilitaryilitary aandnd aantiquentique iitemstems munity hall) Veterans Memorial Park located LANTZVILLE Major Joel Anderson, Commanding at the intersection of Goldstream Lantzville Branch of the Royal 266 Old Island Hwy (up the hill from 4 Mile Pub) Officer, 741 Communications Avenue and Veterans Memorial Canadian Legion at 250-881-8388 Squadron Parkway (Millstream) 7225 Lantzville Road www.harresons.com Commodore Nigel Greenwood, Commander John Tremblay , Base 10:55 a.m. Commander, Canadian Fleet Pacific Information Services Officer, Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt OAK BAY SIDNEY CCOUNTRYOUNTRY GGROCERROCER War Memorial, Uplands Park Town Hall at 2440 Sidney Avenue Colonel William Veenhof, Director of Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Lightbody, salutes the Operations, 1 Canadian Air Division Commanding Officer, 443 Maritime Headquarters Detachment Esquimalt Helicopter Squadron Canadian Forces Fast facts from the First World War Veteran Affairs Canada • The struggle involved virtually tion on the international scene. the whole country and made enor- • Four Canadians were awarded the • Canada entered the war in mous demands on the Canadian Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s 1914. people, whether they were involved highest award for bravery, for their • Between 1914 and 1918, in the actual fighting or remained part in capturing Vimy Ridge. more than 650,000 Canadians and on the home front to work in indus- • Canadian John McCrae wrote Newfoundlanders joined the mili- try or farming to support the war the poem “In Flanders Fields” while tary to fight in the First World War, effort. on the battlefield. the “War to End All Wars.” • Canada’s contribution to this • The first Remembrance • More than 170,000 were great struggle, including the triumph Day took place throughout the injured and more than 66,000 lost at Vimy Ridge, was seen by many Commonwealth on November 11, their lives in costly battles such in the world as Canada’s ‘coming 1919. 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