Robert Allan Spencer died at 101 this year. I met him once. I won\u0027t soon forget him.
birthday and two weeks ahead of his wife, Hèléne Bourassa. Hayes rarely spoke of his war service, or at least not the unsavoury aspects of it. Those memories too easily conjured the smell of death, he explained to his daughter Julie.
That was after his family fled Poland, via Marseilles, France, through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece. They eventually made their way back to Britain, where his father, a Polish naval officer, joined the Allied forces. He and his parents moved from England to Vancouver Island in 1949, and Conrad signed up for the forces three years later, partly to help pay his way through school. After graduating from UBC, he joined the Artillery Regiment. He was posted to Shiloh, Man., where he met and married Marjorie Joan Giffin, an army nurse, in 1956. They had three children, Conrad R., Kristina and Andrew.Article contenttransitioned to international negotiations. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit.
In the eulogy he delivered, Conrad R. noted that his father often quoted many different sources, including this favourite from Winston Churchill: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”Navy veteran Alex Polowin speaking to to students at St. Paul High School in 2011 about life at sea during the Second World War.Three years ago, when he was 94, Alex Polowin compared being in battle to preparing for a boxing match.
As a young teen in Ottawa, Polowin watched his mother cry when she received news that her siblings — Polowin’s aunts and uncles — had been murdered by the Nazis that occupied Lithuania, from where the Polowins emigrated when he was only three. Along the way, he earned the French Legion of Honour , the Atlantic Star, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Soviet Peace Medal, the Order of Ushakov, and Canada’s Sovereign Medal.Article content
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