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November 9, 2012

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Returning to civilian life can be a battle for vetsCockrell House helps struggling veterans with transition from military

Kyle WellsNews staff

After nearly 27 years in the Canadian Army and five years into her civilian life, Terri Orser came to live at Cockrell House last year when she could no longer keep up with mortgage payments.

Now, as resident, co-director, secretary and “den mother” of Cockrell House, the former Warrant Officer in the Canadian Army spends her time trying to help oth-ers while tending to her own challenges.

The large pink house on Sooke Road in Colwood might look like any average multi-unit residence, but inside Cockrell House are former military personnel try-ing to put back together lives that have gone off the tracks since returning to civil-ian life.

With space for 11 people in five self-con-tained units, the house is there for home-less veterans who need help getting off the street.

Since opening in 2009, Cockrell House has assisted more than two dozen people. Veterans stay anywhere from a couple of weeks to a maximum three years. While not all who pass through the home’s doors get better, Orser said the vast majority manage to improve their lot.

“One guy who lives upstairs now said it’s like being in a palace,” she said. “It’s beautifully set up. And I think they feel safe.”

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common ailment among the residents of Cockrell House.

After tours in the Gulf War, the for-

mer Yugoslavia and South Africa, Orser received a medical release from the mili-tary. Among other health concerns, Orser suffers from PTSD, having been diagnosed in 1999.

It all started with anxiety attacks and an inability to sleep. She also felt a desire for isolation, a symptom marked by an inability to cope with other people or day-to-day life.

Orser said the day came when she went to put her combat uniform on and she started shaking. It was then she went to see a doctor.

“At that time I wouldn’t have wished it on my worst enemy. It’s just horrible,” she said. “Back in ’99, you never admitted that. You’re the worst type of military per-son if you have PTSD. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever dealt with. And to admit it, that took me a long time. I didn’t tell anybody.”

The disorder frequently leads to depres-sion and in the most extreme cases, addic-tion or even suicide.

While the majority of those who end up at Cockrell House are veterans in their 40s and 50s, Orser has had contact with veter-ans from the Second World War to people in their early 30s, and some spent limited time in the military.

Cockrell resident Mike A., who asked to have his last name removed due to stigma, served in the Canadian Navy from 1978 to 1980. He was 17 years old when he joined and now describes the navy as a “breed-ing ground for alcoholics.”

“I got booted for the drinking. No treat-ment was offered to me or any of that kind of stuff,” Mike said. “I don’t even know if it was available back then, it was just basi-cally ‘you’re out.’”

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Framed by the rifle of a silent sentry standing watch, Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin prepares to lay a wreath at the cenotaph during Remembrance Day 2011 ceremonies at the legislature. Memorial events are happening around the region on Sunday. See Page 5 for a full list of times and locations.

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It’s only right that every Nov. 11 we take the time to acknowledge the many men and women who serve our country, sometimes in places so remote that we’d be hard pressed to find them on a map.

Yet we tend to forget that behind each of those courageous military personnel are loved ones who are left behind, maintaining the foundations of home and family upon which the cour-age of the military is built.

This is the story of two of those families.

Cheantelle Fisher balances her

14-month-old daughter, Poet, on her knee. Lilliana, 4, is dressed in a Dis-ney princess outfit and perched on the arm of the chair.

Lilliana and Poet’s dad, Leading Sea-man Andrew Fisher is deployed on HMCS Regina in the Gulf of Oman. He’s been gone since the beginning of July and none of the family knows exactly when he’ll be home.

“Daddy’s coming home in March!” Lilliana announces confidently.

Cheantelle smiles. “That the latest they’re back. If it’s sooner, it’ll be a bonus,” she says.

That uncertainty is hard, as is the lack of communication. Skype isn’t possible and Andrew’s been allowed just one phone call since July.

“There are whirlpools out where daddy is so they have to be careful,” Lilliana says, making circular motions with her arms.

Cheantelle explains that Lilliana can’t really understand the risks. “We don’t want to scare her with talk about bad guys.”

Still, there really isn’t time in the day to fret about those concerns. “People assume that when he’s deployed I just

keep going as a mom,” Cheantelle says. “I’m a mom, a dad, a cook, a teacher, a baby photographer, a chauffeur … I get to do everything. And I get to do that on my own.”

A Military Family Resource Centre weekly program for the children of deployed personnel is a help, although the waiting list meant it took over two months to register.

Lilliana has an on-ship photo that the centre staff found online. “That’s my daddy!” she proclaims as she holds up the paper.

“See? he’s working really hard, but

Lilliana Lang, 4, holds a photo of her dad, Leading Seaman Andrew Lang as she sits in her home in Colwood with mom Cheantelle and 14-month-old sister Poet. Andrew Lang, a crew member on HMCS Regina, is on a long-term mission to the Arabian Sea. Sharon Tiffin/News staff

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he’ll be home in March!”Cheantelle smiles and hugs her daughter.

“Yes, he will,” she says.

Catherine Pineda was 37 weeks into her

first pregnancy when her husband, Master Corporal Elder Pineda, left for his first tour in Afghanistan.

“He missed the birth of our daughter, Mataeya, so that was a little rough,” she says.

Their little girl is four now and dad has

been away on a second year-long deploy-ment to Afghanistan. It’s a tough age for Mataeya to have dad gone, Catherine says.

“She understands that her daddy is gone, but had no concept about how long he’ll be gone.”

The solution lies in a bag of stickers. “We counted out the stickers and each day she puts one on the calendar. When the bag is empty, it’s time for daddy to come back.”

As of this writing only a few stickers remain and Mataeya is excited. Dad was scheduled to arrive home Nov. 3.

Their son, Luka, was 2 months old when Elder was deployed. “Elder has never seen Luka walk,” Catherine says.

Elder leads the “drive security team” in Afghanistan with the Canadian Army and that puts him out in the thick of action.

“He’s seen a lot since he’s been over there,” Catherine says. “He’s had children the same age of ours blown up in front of him … its more action than people think.

“We’re in a non-combat role, right?” she adds, laughing at the irony of the state-ment.

Although they talk often, Catherine is careful to keep home problems to herself. “I never go anywhere (in the conversation) that might make him worry. If something happened because he was distracted with things at home … We both sort of walk on eggshells. I tell him to keep his head in the game and come home.”

Catherine holds up a letter with the num-ber “29” neatly printed on the envelope. Before he left, Elder wrote a series of letters and left them with a neighbour.

“When I’ve been really down, one will get delivered here,” she says. On this day she finds a VISA gift card inside and a handwrit-ten note in which Elder asks her to buy something, “just for herself.”

Catherine smiles. “We’ll be here when he comes back.”

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Mataeya Pineda, 4, with mom, Catherine and one-year-old brother, Luka, puts a heart on a calendar that counts down the days until her dad, Elder, returns home to Colwood from a mission in Afghanistan. She’s gripping a pillow bearing her dad’s photo.


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Since then, Mike has strug-gled with alcoholism. Today he has stable housing, is going to treatment seven days a week and is trying to get his life back on track. He said living indepen-dently and looking after himself is a struggle, but he’s glad to have a place to stay.

“It’s not going perfect, but I’m trying,” he said. “It can be a struggle. I am very, very grateful to be here, I’ll tell you that.”

Orser and company try to make the transition simple for new residents at Cockrell House.

“Normally when people first come here, there’s no demands. Just get yourself situated and relaxed,” she said. “One veteran on the street is too many, after (their service to) our country.”

Donations provide most of the funding for the home. They include funds from the Legion Foundation, the City of Colwood and other agencies, businesses and individuals.

There are plans in the works for expanding Cockrell House. Organizers want to be able to provide more individual units, as well as better support for vet-erans transitioning from Cockrell House to more permanent housing.

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Terri Orser stands in front of Cockrell House in Colwood. She is both co-director and a resident of the agency that houses homeless veterans.

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Communities across Greater Victoria have Remembrance Day tradi-tions. Here’s a list of cere-monies happening Nov. 11:

Victoria – 10:30 a.m. Parade from Visitor’s Cen-tre on Wharf Street to the Cenotaph on the grounds of the Legislature.

Saanich – 11 a.m. Munici-pal Hall, 770 Vernon Ave.

Oak Bay – 11 a.m. Oak Bay Memorial Cenotaph, in Uplands Park in the 2800-block of Beach Dr.

Central Saanich – 11 a.m., Municipal hall, 1903 Mount Newton Cross Rd.

Metchosin – 10:45 a.m. Scouts and Girl Guides of Canada march from the Metchosin fire hall to the

cenotaph at St. Mary the Virgin Church, 4354 Metcho-sin Rd.

Esquimalt – 10:30 a.m. Parade from the Esquimalt Legion to Memorial Park cenotaph, 1229 Esquimalt Rd.

Langford – 10:35 a.m., Parade from Langford Legion to Veterans Memo-rial Park, Veterans Memorial Parkway and Goldstream Avenue.

Sidney – 11 a.m., Ceno-taph in front of town hall, 2440 Sidney Ave.

God’s Acre veterans cemetery – Public histori-cal tour happens at 2 p.m. Road access to cemetery is at 1200 Colville Rd. in Esquimalt.

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Korean War veteran Ken Himes (right) and wife, Beverly, were on hand for Nov. 11 ceremonies last year at Veterans Memorial Park in Langford.

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Edward Pinay and Andrew McNally were members of C Company, 1st Canadian Paratroop Battalion during WWII, the fi rst Canadians to land in Normandy on D-Day. They saw combat in France, Belgium and Holland. On March 24,1945 Andrew was killed in action in Germany. Having little time to mourn, Edward took a small lock of his friend’s hair, and after the war, brought it to Andrew’s mother Annie in Edmonton, Alberta.

Vera Smith, Irene HendersonEdward Pinay and Andrew McNally

In October 1952, the federal government invited four members of the Victoria-based variety “Smile Show” to do a Gerry Gosley, Irene Henderson (both now deceased), Al Denoni and Verna Smith. They were sponsored by the Canadian Legion and given “officer status.” The show group travelled 12,000 miles while presenting 90 shows to an estimated 15,000 troops, both to British Commonwealth and American units. The biggest show was before a group of 1,100 American troops.

On a troop ship in Yokahama Harbour in Japan during the Korean War 1952: Left to right: Verna Smith, Irene Henderson and Al Denoi (missing Gerry Gosley).

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My Second World War military story is somewhat different from the usual. On the outbreak of the war, I didn’t want to join the army or the navy as I was always keen on flying. However, it was a very expensive proposition to take fl ying lessons in those days during the depression.

At that time in Victoria was a chap by name of Capt. Henry Seymour-Biggs a retired Royal Navy man. Apparently he had connections with someone in the Royal Air Force. He set up an offi ce on Government Street in Victoria and eager young lads fl ocked to see him. If he accepted you, he then made all of the arrangements for you to get to England and to be met there by an RAF recruiting offi cer and taken in hand.

One had to pay their own fare to England of course, but Biggs had arranged a very special price. Also, once he had accepted you, he then made all of the arrangements to get your passport and arrange the passage. By wars-end Biggs had assisted about 700 keen young Canadians to do so. I wrote, published and sold-out a book titled The Biggs’ Boys, some years ago.

My fare from Victoria and by train across the United States and up to Montreal, and then passage to England, was approximately $135. That was a huge sum in those days of the Depression. If one did manage to get a job, a very good salary was $100 per month. My only income was about $12 a month from a paper route, all of which went into the family coffers. Mom gave me about 20 cents on a weekend to go to the old Romano Theatre in Victoria where a matinee was about 10 cents, a chocolate bar 5 cents and a bottle of pop also 5 cents. So you can see I had my work cut out for me to earn $135 for a fare to England. However, I started to save what I could, getting odd jobs digging for farmers and picking various seasonal crops. I even got a job for a few weeks at the University School spreading soil by shovel over their huge soccer fi eld. This earned me $2 per day.

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Nursing Sister Christina CampbellIn 1915, Christina Campbell enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps as a nurse (nursing sister), with the rank of lieutenant. She had trained and worked at the Jubilee Hospital. After nursing troops in Salonika and England, she signed up for hospital ship duty. She died when the hospital ship Llandovery Castle was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1918. All 14 nurses on board drowned. A total of 234 lives were lost, mostly wounded soldiers.


William “Bill” WilliamsonOn Sept. 17th, 1944, Sgt William “Bill” Williamson, of the 1st PARA 3rd Battalion (British Army) dropped from a Douglas on to the picturesque landscape of Holland, near a town called Arnhem, “Market Garden” was launched, and my Grandfather “Bill” was there, and made it back home.After WW2 he served in Palestine and Egypt and retired after marrying his beautiful wife Leah.

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The Pemberton brothers wanted to fl y. Despard took fl ying lessons before the war and joined the Royal Flying Corps. Warren went to England to train with the RFC and died in training in 1916. Despard won the Distinguished Flying Cross but was shot down over France in August 1917. Sons of a distinguished family, they are remembered in the streets Warren Gardens and Despard Avenue, here in Victoria. Their father, Frederick Pemberton, organized the building of Victoria’s cenotaph. ~ Remember ~

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Ruth Tredgett After two years with RCAF in Alberta, Ruth was sent to London in 1944. She recalls the German rockets as a constant threat and she had some close calls, but Victory Day saw her at Buckingham Palace celebrating with thousands of people. Returning to Canada via Halifax, the Canadian Women’s Division personnel were greeted by Princess Alice to welcome them home.- Submitted with love and respect from her grateful children, Cathy and John.

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John Douglas Haig – Flight Lieutenant, D.F.C., was awarded The Distinguished Flying Cross and this is how the citation read: -“This offi cer has completed numerous operations against the enemy in the course of which he has invariably displayed the utmost fortitude, courage and devotion to duty.”

Born in Winnipeg, Mr Haig left his job at the Canadian Bank of Commerce to enlist with the R.C.A.F. in 1941. He successfully completed a large number of operational bombing sorties as captain of aircraft. Mr. Haig, recounts this story; “We were heading back after a very diffi cult night mission – this bombing mission was over northern Germany, on the border of Russia...and precariously close to an enemy POW camp, housing allied soldiers. We had to be exact, and we were...but at a cost. Not all the aircraft returned safely, and our navigator was hurt and unconscious. With one engine burnt out, the very dark- 5 hour fl ight back to England was quite distressing. As we fl ew over the English Channel, we eventually got radio contact and asked for assistance – “”this is Lancaster, the best aircraft in the world...but we are lost!”” Much to our relief, the base command was able to guide us safely towards the White Cliffs of Dover.”

Mr. Haig’s reliability and judgement and his courage and devotion to duty in action were of the very highest of order.

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Seventeen infantry battalions were raised in British Columbia to serve overseas in the Great War and seven of those are perpetuated by the Regiment today. Three of the Regiment’s battalions became part of the order of battle of the Canadian Corps, while the remainder were broken up as reinforcements. Those forming part of the Corps included the 7th, 29th and 102nd Battalions.

The 102nd (North Br i t ish Columbia) Battalion, raised at Comox in December 1915, had an initial strength of 1,005 offi cers and men. The Battal ion was known as “Warden’s Warriors” after its first CO, Lieutenant-Colonel Warden.

Warden had served in the DCORs and enlisted in the 7th Battalion. Wounded at 2nd Ypres he returned to Canada, was

promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and raised the 102nd Batta l ion f rom volunteers in northern British Columbia. Arriving in France on Aug. 12 1 9 1 6 t h e B a t t a l i o n received i ts “baptism of fire” on the Somme. The 102nd served with d ist inct ion and great sacrifice throughout the remainder of the war, notably during the Final 100 Days campaign.

Of the 3,863 officers and men who served in the Battalion 676 gave the i r l i ves and 1 ,715 w e r e w o u n d e d . T h e soldiers of the Battalion earned 287 decorations for gallantry; among them was a V i c to r i a C ross awarded to Lieutenant Graham

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The Princess Charlotte loading troops [Warden’s Warriors] leaving Comox. Photo: Rob Piggot

Charles Veness (right) a Colwood resident and teamster, served with the 102nd Battalion (Warden’s Warriors) a renowned WW1 unit that trained in Comox.

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Emerson Smith of Victoria, B.C. joined the Canadian Army in 1914, rising to rank of Captain. Transferring to the British Royal Flying Corps early in 1916, he took on the rank of Lieutenant. He earned official status as a British Ace by downing at least seven German aircraft.

On October 17, 1917 he was shot down behind enemy lines by the “Red Baron” von Richthofen after shooting down the Baron’s “Ace” Herman Goer ing, the future Luftwaffe Commander. Both pilots survived with Smith a prisoner till war’s end.


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Jack, Gerald and Frederick PetersOn the Peters’ marker in Ross Bay Cemetery, Jack and Gerald Peters are remembered with memorial inscriptions. Jack was killed in action in April 1915 and his brother Gerald was killed in action in July 1916. Their bodies were never found. Brother Frederick, in the navy, survived the war. He won the Victoria Cross in World War II as a navy captain but died on a fl ight back to Britain from North Africa. His body was never found.

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