Below is a list of men from this area who gave their lives while serving with Canada’s Armed Forces—

U.S. NAVY 1898: James Strongman

WWI 1914—19182’William Arsenault, Ernest Alvah Baglole, Harry Talbot Bryant, Edmund Cahill, Charles Caplin, Ernest Dennis, Urville Ellands, William Gallant, Walter Goodwin, Fred Hashie, Thomas Edward Kilbride, Peter Knockwood, John W. Labobe, Albert Sanford Landry, Harry MacArthur, Edward Roy Morrison, Harry Elder Morrison, Percy Allen Murphy, Archibald Patrick Phillips, Charles Gregory Smith, Lewis

Toney, Horace Yeo.

WWII 1939—1945: Claude Adams; Sterling Banks, Herman Arthur Bryan, Harold Bulger, Lawrence Bulger, Loman Titus Campbell, William Frederick Enman, George Francis, Thomas Gain, Royden Ings, Alvah R. Leard, Erskine William Lewis, Vincent MacAusland, George Anthony MacCaull, John Wendell MacNeill, John Robert Milligan, Leo Moran, Thomas Bayfield Murray, Don Peters, Linus Sark.

KOREAN WAR: Leonard MacDougall, William Copage.

CANADA’S PEACETIME FORCES: Stuart Ira Banks, Vernon Grant, Stewart Milligan, Gerald Ronald Murphy, Robert Sharpe, Burns Ellis, Hazen

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A largely attended Remembrance Day Service is held each year on November II.

The Ladies Auxiliary of Ellerslie Branch No. 22 of the Royal Canadian Legion was formed on November 29, 1956 with Mrs. Marjorie Harkness of Summerside, Provincial Past President of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian Legion, performing the duties.

There were nine charter members present: Pearl Williams, Eva Colwill, Elva MacLennan, Kathleen MacLean, Hazel Palmer MacDonald, Blanche England, Jean Milligan, Ethel Hutchinson and Glenn Williams.

The first president was Pearl Williams, with Glenn Williams as First Vice- President with Eva Colwill as Second Vice-President. Blanche England was Secretary-Treasurer. In July 1957 their Charter was presented to them by Comrade Phillipson of the Summerside Branch.

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