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Note: Taken from "McKinnon Doings" February 1945: Sgt. John M. Stull, 37, a former employee of Department 35, has been awarded the Military Medal, according to an announcement by military authorities early in February. Born in St. Catharines, he left McKinnon's on September 25, 1939 to join the Lincoln and Welland Regiment and was transferred to the Medical Corps before going overseas in August 1943. Sgt. Stull has two sons, Jackie, 10 and Bobby, 6. Now in Belgium, he wrote his wife some time ago and said that something had happened to him that made him very proud. The citation announcing the honour conferred on him is as follows: "On November 2, 1944, at an advanced surgical centre situated on the dunes to the south of the Westkapello Gap on Walcheren Island, the area came under extremely heavy shell fire from a German battery and many were killed and wounded. Cpl. (A-Sgt) Stull, at great personal risk, with exploding ammunition from burning landing vehicles flying all about, did carry wounded from the area of danger, returning time and again, examining all bodies and removing the living to a place of relative safety. He showed an extremely high degree of courage throughout the whole bombardment."
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