Dumas, Gilbert Norman “Gil”
Alphone Dumas, Lillian Agnes (MacMillan) Dumas
Gilbert Dumas was born on August 24, 1916 in Greenwood son of Alphonse Dumas and Lillian Agnes (MacMillan) Dumas (living in Princeton in 1948). He died on August 25, 1948 in Vancouver, BC. At the time of his death, he was a retired postal and store clerk.
In August 1938, he had taken a position at Allenby.
In September 1944, the Similkameen Star reported that: “Gilbert Dumas, returned veteran, visited his parents here on Labour Day. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Artillery on March 19, 1941, and went overseas in October of that year. After two and a half years he was invalided home, and was discharged on December 17, 1943. He was in hospital here this spring and in the Shaughnessy Military Hospital, Vancouver this summer. He is now on the staff of the Vancouver Post Office.”
WWII Veteran
Princeton Our Valley, page 1; Death registration (BC Archives); Similkameen Star, August 18, 1938, page 13; September 7, 1944, page 4