VETERANS’ SERVICE RECOGNITION BOOK – VOLUME 19 / 25 THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND COMMAND ARSENAULT, Joseph “Francis” WWII Francis was born in Tignish, PEI in 1928, the son of Basil Arsenault and Angeline Pire. In 1946, Francis drowned in the Demerara River in Guyana (South America) while serving aboard the ‘Oceanside’, which was in Guyana to pick up bauxite from a nearby mining camp. He had been serving on the High Seas with the Canadian Merchant Navy during World War II. ANDREW, Fred I. WWI & WWII Fred was born in 1897. He served overseas in World War I from 1915 to 1919 and in World War II from 1940 to 1946. He completed his Basic Training in Beach Grove with Co. No. 62, and later served in Halifax, Nova Scotia with Co. No. 6. Fred passed away in 1969. He received an OBE, MM and ED. ALCHORN, Lloyd Cecil WWII Lloyd Cecil Alchorn was born in 1919 in Fairview to parents Urban and Violet Alchorn. His siblings were Aletha, Vera, and Clarence. After the war, Lloyd settled in Ontario. He married but the marriage ended. He worked for the railway. Lloyd suffered health problems later in life and his diabetes led to his death in 1973. He died in Ontario but is interred in the New Dominion Cemetery.
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