PIN, LAPEL

Description: BRONZE CANADIAN LEGION PIN, WITH A MAPLE LEAF IN THE CENTRE, SURROUNDED BY 8 RED STRIPES. WRITTEN AROUND FACE IS "BRITISH EMPIRE SERVICE LEAGUE CANADIAN LEGION". PIN HAS A CROWN STICKING OUT FROM TOP. BACK OF PIN SCREWS ON AND HAS TEETH TO HOLD IT SECURE AGAINST FABRIC. SLIGHTLY TARNISHED.

History: DONATED WITH COLLECTION OF WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II MEDALS RECEIVED BY DONOR'S (LEONA) STEP-GRANDFATHER, DOUGLAS HOSKINS, DURING HIS MILITARY CAREER. ORIGINALLY FROM SASKATCHEWAN, DOUGLAS MOVED TO COALHURST IN THE 1950'S AFTER THEY RETIRED, AND IN THE EARLY 1960'S THEN MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE. MR. HOSKINS PASSED AWAY SHORTLY AFTER MOVING TO LETHBRIDGE. HIS WIFE, BERTHA PASSED AWAY IN THE EARLY 1970'S. MEDALS WERE FOUND IN LEONA'S MOTHERS (EVELYN) HOME. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MILITARY OBJECTS. DOUGLAS HOSKINS' BIOGRAPHICAL AND MILITARY SERVICE INFORMATION WAS FOUND IN HIS RECRUITMENT PAPERS AND FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE MARCH 30, 1961 ISSUE OF THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD. DOUGLAS JERROLD HOSKINS WAS BORN ON MAY 25, 1888 IN GLAMORGANSHIRE, SOUTH WALES, AND WAS LIVING AND WORKING AS A FARMER IN GLASLYN, SASKATCHEWAN WHEN HE WAS DRAFTED TO MILITARY SERVICE ON OCTOBER 25, 1917. HOSKINS WENT ON TO ALSO SERVE IN WWII, AND SETTLED IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA IN THE 1950S WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL HIS DEATH IN MARCH 1961. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPIES OF HOSKINS' RECRUITMENT PAPERS AND FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENT.