#Stacey sugar story county full

#Stacey sugar story county full

That cost him a number of laps around the barrack's perimeter, in full gear, rifle held above his head.

The only trouble he got into in the navy was playing his mandolin after curfew during boot camp.

Lew was a gentleman, polite, with a gentle sense of humor, someone with whom others felt comfortable. The underwater radar's constant 'pinging' is believed to have caused his partial hearing loss. He used old flour and sugar sacks his mother saved as sails.īeing on boats all his life, in all kinds of weather, prepared him for his role as an ASDIC/SONAR operator, where he spent hours in a small, windowless, dark and cramped room below the bridge listening for enemy submarines. As a boy, Lew built a sailboat, steaming the boards to ply them into shape. He grew up along the shores of Lake Huron, which could be mistaken for the ocean on a calm day if not for the lack of brine. That he had never clapped eyes on the open sea didn't matter. A short time later, after training at HMCS Cornwallis N.S., he was part of the crew of the 'Napanee', a flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy, escorting ship convoys to Britain, known as the North Atlantic run. On his way to the recruitment centre, he instead was fortuitously stopped by a naval recruiter from HMCS Prevost London. Lew Stacey was 19 in the fall of 1943 when he set off to join the army. Lewis George Stacey, in his 97th year, passed away peacefully on Januat Parkwood Institute Veterans Wing, holding the hands of his son and daughter.