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Valley Servicemen Sustain” Wounds Which Are Listed from Slight To. Dangerously II Several families in the Drumheller area were notified early this week that relatives had been wounded while serving with the Canadian Army in Italy. Mrs. Ruth Brown Bonaguro, a mem ber of the Jenkins’ Graceteria staff, was advised that her husband, Pte. Nick Bonaguro, was wounded, grow ing dangerously ill The wounded soldier, who was employed as a clerk at the Hotel Alexandra prior to en listment, has a brother, Pte. Caesar Bonaguro, who is also with the Cen tral Mediterranean Forces. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sim, 320 Second Ave. West, were informed Monday that their elder son, Acting Lance- Corporal George Sim, age 20, had been wounded, May 23. Extent and nature of wounds were not clarified. George Sim joined the Calgary High landers in 1940, and proceeded over seas in August, 1941. He is a veteran of the Sicilian campagen, and was re cently mentioned in despatches. Mr. and Mrs. Alex McKinnon, of Midlandvale, were notified that their eldest son, Pte. Archie McKinnon, who has been overseas since last Fall, was slightly wounded. Archie was for merly employed at the Midland mine. Mrs. Nora Crittall Thorley, of Mid landvale, received a cable Tuesday which disclosed that her husband, Sgt. Harold Thorley, had been seri ously wounded. Sgt. and Mrs. Thorley are the parents of two daughters. Harold Thorley was employed as a miner prior to enlistment. RECEIVES PROMOTION The announcement of the promotion to rank of staff sergeant of Sgt. Geo. Owens, Box 376, Drumheller, was re cently made by a C.LB. Workshop, operate with which he is serving in Italy. WANTS TO EVEN THE SCORE With the Canadian Army in Italy. When Pte. Rudolph Barick, 24, son of Rudolph Barick, Sr., of Wayne, joined the P.P.C.LI. in action in Siciliy last summer, he was in the line just short of five minutes before he was knocked out and he has only been back with the regiment since March 28. Rudolph came up to the line at a particularly bad moment during a day when the regiment, then in position on the slope of Mount Etna, was being steadily mortared by the Germans. He made his way to the platoon to which he ‘was assigned as a reinforcement, re ported to the commander and was directed to the spot where he should dig his slit trench. It was then pre cisely two p.m. Three minutes later, Rudolph reached the spot, started to take off his equipment the better to dig. A minute later, a fragment of a mortar bomb that landed nearby wounded him. Next minute, he was being helped along his way back out of action. Now fully recovered and with well over a month of fine ex perience behind him, he is awaiting his chance to even the score.
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Drumheller Mail
Drumheller, Alberta, CA
Thu, Jun 01, 1944
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