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    • Part 1: First Nations of the Peace River Region
    • Part 2: The Fur Trade Era
    • Part 3: Transportation and Communication
    • Part 4: Old Timers and the Price of Land
    • Part 5: Dawson Creek: The Story of the Community
    • Part 6: Mysteries, Adventures and Indian Legends
    • Part 7: Arts, Crafts and Recreation
    • Part 8: Agriculture
    • Part 9: Church Histories
    • Part 10: Schools
    • Part 11: Health Care
    • Part 12: Industries and Enterprises
    • Part 13: Policing the Peace
    • Part 14: Pouce Coupe, Rolla, and Other South Peace Communities
    • Part 15: Chetwynd and the Fort St. John Area
    • Part 16: The Alberta Peace
    • Part 17: Natural History of the Peace River Region
    • Part 18: Interviews with Old Timers
    • Part 19: Remembering Our Veterans

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BN19-09: Legion to Honour Sudetens Who Served

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

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