EDMONDS, RAY (Sept 20, 1920 - December 25, 2012) On Tuesday, December 25, 2012, Mr. Ray Edmonds of Okanagan Falls passed away at Sunnybank Centre in Oliver at the age of 92 years. A memorial service will be held at 1:00 P.M. Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at the Okanagan Falls Legion Hall. Reception will follow in the Legion Hall. Ray was born on September 20, 1920 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and joined the DCOR Regiment in 1940 at the age of twenty. He was shipped out of Halifax with the 12th Manitoba Dragoons, landing in Scotland. He was in London when some of the heavy bombings occurred. Two years later, stationed at St. Vito, Italy, on the Adriatic Coast, Ray became a dispatch rider. He left Italy by boat, after two years, and went on to France and then Belgium and then to Holland. In1945 he was sent back to England, and then with the 395 DRAFT on the ship Normandy, sailed back to Canada. He was put on a hospital train out of Halifax and sent to Shaughnessy Hospital, in Vancouver. Ray's
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