Recent History
Legion Notes by Day Roberts, PRB News 30 July 1999
Dawson Creek Royal Canadian Legoion Branch #141 will pay tribute to the volunteers from Tomslake, B.C. who served in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War. Branch President Cde. Bud Melin will present a special commemorative scroll to the citizens of Tomslake on Sunday, August 1, 1999 at 11:00 am in ceremonies which will be held on the Church/Museum grounds in Tomslake. A Legion Colour Party from Dawson Creek will be in attendance for the presentation and includes: Comrades Giles Dudley, Don McCafferty, Jim Thorpe, Stan Hill, Vince Slowinski Sr., Lin Schafer and two members of the Dawson Creek RCMP detatchment.
About one month after the establishment of the Sudeten German settlement in the Tomslake area, duroing 1939, at the start of the Second World War, 46 young men volunteered to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces. They were ready to leave their newly acquired homes in order to join the crusade against Hitler’s tyrrany. Out of the original number of 500 settlers at Tomslake, the following served in the Armed Forces of Canada:
| Andrew Amstatter | Richard Aust (KIA) | Rudolf Dworsky |
| Rudolf Etzler (KIA) | Walter Fischer | Karl Fister |
| Franz Gabriel | Rudolf Hackl | Adolf Herold |
| Herman Hirschmann | Rudolf Hocke | Robert Hoidn |
| Eduard Julg | Josef Koecher | Anton Kopp |
| Egon Korbay | Ernst Koutnik | Rudolf Landsfried |
| Herbert Lexa | Max Lorenz | Alois Muller |
| Anton Mueller | Rudolf Netek | Anton Neubauer |
| Ernst Pickert | Johann Pohl | Albert Priegert |
| Gottfried Priegert | Rudolf Priegert | Reinhold Presczek |
| Erhard Reinelt | Franz Riedl | Franz Ritchel |
| Alfred Roth | Kurt Seidl | Franz Singer |
| Rudolf Singer | Harald Schwartz | Willibald Schwertner |
| Franz Suttner | Kurt Suttner | Heinz Tschiedel |
| Johann Wawerczin | Alfred Weigel | Ernst Weinhart |
| Max Wosatka |