Jack Yeo Jack served overseas from October, 1941 until October, 1945. He fought in the Italian campaign and also in Belgium, Holland, and Germany. A Sentimental Memory (September 1941) This is a sentimental memory I want to share about my friends of the Lot 16 United Church, which I attended from the time I was a young boy. In June, 1941, at the age of twenty- one, I voluntarily joined the army. After my basic training in Charlottetown , I was stationed in Petawawa, Ontario . Prior to my departure overseas in October, 1941, to go to war, I was given a ten-day furlough to return to PEI to say "Good-bye" to my Mom, Dad, brothers and sisters, as well as my many friends in the Lot 16 United Church. While home on leave, I attended a church service at United. At the end of the service, the minister, Rev. Christie , asked the congregation to remain seated. Sensing what might be going to take place, and fearful about my emotions show¬ ing, I got up from the pew and started to go outside. However, I remember one of the boys, Bill Miller , coming and taking me back in and up to the front of the church. After saying a few words and wishing me well, he presented me with a pen and pencil set. At this presentation, the tears rolled down my face and I couldn't express my appreciation for the gift. So, this is my chance to say "Thank you". I didn't have the luxury of being able to carry many personal possessions but I cherished that pen and pencil set, and it came with me in my travels through the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Cen¬ tral Mediterranean area. It wrote many a letter back to my family in Lot 16 assuring them that both my brother, James, and I were still alive and well. So the thank you I could not orally say in 1941 is now sixty years later, in 2001, being expressed in print. I can only hope that in 1941 the apprecia¬ tion I could not verbally express was shown by the tears rolling down my face. A belated "Thank you" to my many friends of the Lot 16 United Church." (Gunner) Jack Alton Yeo World War II Veteran 218 United Church and Its People