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Gordon Gotell (also underage), Army.

They all came back, except Wendell MacKenzie who died in 1944 while stationed in Summerside.

My brothers, Lloyd and Jack were both wounded around the same time, one in France and one in Holland, and ended up in the same hospital in England to recover. It was written about in The Guardian on February 7, 1945, in an article entitled “Brothers Meet Overseas”. Both returned to action after they recovered.

Pte. John G. C. King, Rim. Lloyd N. King, sons of Mr and Mrs Daniel King, Boughton island, PEI. Canada met for the first time in convalescent hospital after going overseas. Lloyd joined in 1939 with the PE/ Highlanders.

He was first stationed in the Mar/times then went overseas to Newfoundland where alten/vards he took an instructor's course at Long Branch and then to British Columbia and went overseas in August, after was wounded in Holland and invalided to England. Jack joined in 1942 with the Tank Corps. He was first stationed in Halifax, then to Camp Borden. From there he took a clerk's course in Toronto and went to England in 1944, was wounded in France then sent back to England. in letters to the folks at home they often wondered if they would ever meet while overseas. (Patriot please copy)

The war left only the older people and the children, and at age 11, l was one of the oldest. As the saying goes, “a Man’s life began”, fishing and farming with the fathers.

Every house had an old battery radio, and families would gather together every night to try to keep up on the war news. At 10 o’clock everyone would stop whatever they were doing to listen to a special broadcast with Gabriel Heater. Lem Allen was the first on Boughton Island to get a battery radio. I recall when my brother Lloyd bought our family’s first radio, an RCA Victor that cost $40.00. We liked too listen to Clyde Nunn on the Antigonish Station. He had a lot of local singers on this program and would read rhymes that people would send in. My twin sister Martha and I sent in the first rhyme we ever wrote, and he read it over the air. We had signed it “Twins from Boughton Island” but he read it as “Two little girls from Boughton Island”. We Were 12 or so at the time. it goes like this:

There's a little girl that’s waiting for her noble soldier lad

He has left and gone to England, leaves her lonely, blue and sad 71