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Mike Blais
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A ROYAL CANADIAN "NEVER PASSES A FAULT"
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To all Royal Canadians. Be advised, this year's Silver Cross Mother is the mother of Cpl. Robbie Christopher Beerenfenger, a Royal Canadian, who was killed during a time when the Regiment patrolled the streets of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
Pro Patria.
Embrun woman chosen as Silver Cross mother
The Ottawa Citizen
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
The Embrun mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2003 will be this year's Silver Cross mother. Wilhelmina Beerenfenger-Koehler was chosen by the Royal Canadian Legion to represent this country's mothers and lay a wreath at the National Remembrance Day Ceremony on Nov. 11. She will also attend the Vimy Ridge 90th anniversary ceremony in Ottawa this Sunday at noon. Her son, 29-year-old Cpl. Robbie Christopher Beerenfenger, was killed near Kabul on Oct. 2, 2003. He and Sgt. Robert Short died when their Iltis Jeep ran over an explosive device. Both men served with 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment. Mrs. Beerenfenger-Koehler was born in Leiden, Holland, and emigrated to Canada as a young child.
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
Pro Patria
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Letters from the battlefield
This year's Tour of Duty Gala fundraiser features poignant reminders of the price of war
By EARL MCRAE, OTTAWA SUN
As a parent, and as long as you live, you never forget the day and year and hour your child died, and it is only coincidence, but somehow right, that the big event Wilhemina Beerenfenger-Koehler will be attending as an honoured guest next Tuesday night happens to fall four years to the day that her soldier son Robbie was killed in Afghanistan.
Beerenfenger-Koehler of Embrun is this year's Memorial Silver Cross Mother representing all of Canada's mothers who've lost sons and daughters in war, commemorating their loved ones who never came home again. Cpl. Robbie Beerenfenger, 29, and Sgt. Robert Short, 42, 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, were killed Oct. 2, 2003, when their Jeep hit a landmine. Three other soldiers were seriously injured.
The event at the Canadian War Museum is by the Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre Foundation, its third annual, to raise funds for the facility, and is called the Tour of Duty Gala, this year's theme Keep The Home Fires Burning.
FEW TICKETS LEFT
Should you wish, or be able, to attend you can phone 613-526-7173 up until 2 p.m. today for tickets at $175 each, or $1,200 for a table of eight. There are still a few left for this important gala that in its three years has raised more than $150,000 towards improving the quality of life for residents at the centre.
We hear of the stories from the battlefront in war, the exploits of the soldiers, but what we seldom hear about is that which they'd tell you is so meaningful to them, so necessary, so comforting -- and those are the letters of love and longing and support from their loved ones back home; their wives, their girlfriends, their children, their brothers, their sisters, their moms and dads.
Letters from home, letters to home, letters to those who keep the home fires burning, treasured letters put away and kept down through the years, letters, some of which, will be read at the Tour of Duty Gala on Tuesday night by those who wrote them, those who received them.
When the Perley and Rideau Foundation announced the project a few months ago, asking for letters with six winners to be picked, it received scores of them from across the province.
"The letters," says Paul Finn, managing director of the foundation, "covered World War Two right up through Bosnia to Afghanistan. Letters from the families, and some from the soldiers themselves who'd served. Some were not letters, but their reminiscences about those times from their perspective at home. The winning entries are very moving, very poignant."
MUSEUM TOUR
Lt.-Gen. Walter Natynczyk, vice-chief of the defence staff, will be at the gala that starts (business dress) with cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and features a full and private tour of the War Museum.
Entertainment will be provided by the Perley and Rideau Dazzling Pearls -- four women who work at the centre -- on violin, flute, piano, and guitar.
There'll be silent and live auctions, and among the many prizes: An Ottawa Sun balloon ride. Four tickets to the Nov. 10 game between the Senators and Canadiens. A Sens jersey autographed by Chris Phillips. Two return airline tickets to London (England). Several golf packages, one of them two nights at the Deerhurst Lodge in Muskoka. Bottles of scotch. Jewelry. Six wood carvings of airmen, sailors, and soldiers made by the Perley and Rideau vets. Paintings. Tickets to the NAC.
And (dare I say it) dinner for five with The Four-Eyed Lippy Little Shin Kicker at Moe's World Famous Newport Restaurant, headquarters of the Elvis Sighting Society, the King dropping in from Tweed always a possibility.
Again. For tickets -- 613-526-7173, deadline 2 p.m. today.
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
Pro Patria
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Very nice to see, and am gratefull to Mrs Beerenfenger for stepping forth on behalf of all mothers who have lost their children in Service to the country and world...ranrad
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