----- Original Message ----- From: "loddydawe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 10:05 AM Subject: Subject:,RE: [CAN-BC] Garnet "Steve" STEPHENSON Ontario > Chilliwack, BC > Gerald: If this chap worked in the motor pool, he probably was with the > Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. Check the Department of National > Defence Website or see if there is an RCASC website - place a query to > there. In Germany in the 50's, he could have been posted to either > Werl, Soest, Hemer (or if attached to the Air Force) Lahr, West > Germany. Also check if there is a CFB Chilliwack website. He would > have received his training in CFB Borden in Ontario check for that website. > My father was RCASC (30 years) ..... but my brother was RCEME and he was stationed in Chilliwack in the mid-1960's, when he finished his apprenticeship, in Kingston, Ontario. So I'd be inclined to think the uncle was RCEME, particularly as he was a mechanic, after discharge from the Army. RCASC basically provided those to drive anything on wheels and/or tracks, the Army had, although I know they did some work on their vehicles as well. At least those in Kingston did ... but primarily RCASC was responsible for transporting men and equipment. RCEME, as I recall, had the motor pool (to fix vehicles), built the roads, bridges and the like, allowing the Army to keep moving. Toni, Ontario. (From the eras of the Korean War, "duck 'n' cover"and Bay of Pigs; lived on Army bases from 1950-1971)