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28. ii Roma Anne Young born December 8 1937. 29. iii Amy Kathryn Young born April 16, 1945.

9. Doris Mildred Young born ca. 1917, Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, resided in Kingsboro PEI, married October 7, 1937, at Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, by Rev. M. Watterworth, at the home of Walter Young, George Wayne Bruce, born 1912, Portsmouth Virginia, (son of George A. Bruce and Jeanette Jane (Nettie) Ching) resided in Kingsboro PEI, occupation: Mechanic, died July 1984, Souris Prince Edward Island, interred at Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, in the East Point Baptist Church Cemetery. Doris died May 6, 1948, Charlottetown Prince Edward Island, interred at Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, in the East Point Baptist Church Cemetery. Doris and Dorothy were twins. Children: 30. i Dora Marie Bruce. 31. ii Melvin Bruce born Dec. 16, 1944.

10. Dorothy Young born ca. 1917, Kingsboro Prince Edward Isiand, resides in Baltimore Ont., married John Roberts, resides in Baltimore Ont. Dorothy and Doris were twins. Children: 32. i Terence Gene Roberts. ii Linda Doris Roberts resides in Baltimore Ont. iii Debra Ann Roberts resides in Markham Ontario, married Larry Stickle, resides in Markham Ontario.

11. Amy Jean Young resides in Whitby Ontario, occupation: Civil Servant, married Edward George Mannings, resides in Toronto Ontario, died before 1998. Children: 33. i Michael Reid Mannings.

12. Ruth Young resides in Fergus Ontario, married Harold (Hal) Morris, resides in Fergus Ontario. Children: 34. i Kelly Lee Morris.

13. Grace Taylor married Hjalmar Soderhoim, died before 1998. Grace died before 1998. Children: 35. i Bruce Soderholm. 36. ii Alma Soderholm.

14. Elizabeth (Betty) Bruce resides in Burlington VT, married separated, E. J. (or Carl) Smith. Betty was adopted. Children: i William Bruce Smith resides in Tacoma Wash. 37. ii Dawn Smith. 38. ifi Gail Smith. iv Michael Kent Smith.

15. George Harold Bruce born July 6, 1915, Red Point Prince Edward Island, resides in Red Point PEI, married April 8, 1946, at Charlottetown Prince Edward Island, by I. Judson Levy, First United Baptist Church Parsonage, divorced, Elsie Ethel Stewart, (daughter of Harry Stewart and name unknown to researcher) resides in Souris P.E.I., occupation: Sales Clerk.

George enlisted as a volunteer in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island on September 6, 1940, a year after the outbreak of World War Il. He was a Leading Seaman with the Royal Canadian Navy until war's end in 1945. During his five year's service he served primarily on convoy escorts on the North Atlantic Run on the H.M.S. Frisky which was a tug which towed damaged vessels from the North Atlantic into ports and picked up survivors, the corvettes H.M.C.S. Louisbourg and H.M.C.S. Drumheller, the frigate H.M.C.S. Matane and a Q-boat, the H.M.C.S. Fairmile.

George's experiences on the Frisky were varied and frightening. They frequently ran into German submarines and destroyers and often ran out of food while at sea. Despite the danger, the hardship of an empty larder and the hopelessness of searching for damaged vessels and survivors in the vast North Atlantic is what is the most memorable of the time that George served on the Frisky. On one trip, a German submarine surfaced next to them and posed a number of questions to the Captain. Without waming, it suddenly closed up and submerged. Another time the Frisky came up against a German warship which flashed in German. The Captain of the Frisky threw all the papers overboard (standard operating procedure when faced with captivity) and told all men to board the lifeboat. George grabbed his hardtack and cigarettes and boarded the skiff - the extent of their lifeboat. They fully expected the warship to open fire on their boat as was the usual practice. Fortunately a squall came up, as they often do in the North Atlantic, and the ship disappeared in the squall. The crew managed to find their way back to the Frisky and boarded once more. They did not see the German warship again. On this particular foray, they never found the damaged vessel they were looking for.

He was then assigned to the Louisbourg, which was to sail from St. John's Newfoundland across the Atlantic. Before

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