2. CHERYL LOUISE FRANCESCHI. While visiting my sister, Penny Shapperd in Golden, British Columbia, Canada, I noted down the contents of a display case she had made up concerning my father's naval service: a bosun whistle (that I remember clearly from my childhood), 2 arm patches, a hat from the HMCS Uganda and the following medals: - 40th anniversary Russian medal - 1939 - 1945 star - Atlantic Star - Italy Star -Volunteer Service & Overseas clasp -war medal 1939 - 1945 - Arctic Campaign
Lorne, was a first gunner on a destroyer that ran the Murmansk run which brought food into Arch Angel, Russia, to ship across Lake Lagoda to relieve the starving inhabitants of Leningrad. Many millions having died as a result of Hitler's scorched earth policy.
-BIRTH REGISTERS and CERTIFICATES. birth cert: #24-08-101809 Alta. -4. DEATH REGISTER. Marr cert:#46-08-004386 Alta. Death cert: #68-09-001122 BC.