Stan Deveau was born November 19, 1922 in Watrous, Saskatchewan, a small farming community.  He grew up there during the difficult days of the Great Depression, when economics and the environment conspired to create the “Dust Bowl”, forcing the family to move to British Columbia in 1938.  When the war came along, Stan’s brother decided to enlist, and he convinced Stan to join him.  They reported for training in Vernon, B.C., and were subsequently sent to Kingston, Ontario for specialized signals/communications training.  The next stop was Halifax – and the troopship Laetitia, which took the men to Greenock, and from there they boarded a train to Camp Aldershot.  Stan spent several years in England training and running schemes, and he was able to see some family when on leave, but in late June 1994 the time for the Channel crossing came, and Stan was on his way to Normandy.  Stan was attached to an anti aircraft unit at this time, maintaining the radios so the gunners could be in constant communications with observers on the front lines.  In Normandy Stan dealt with the reality of the battlefield – shelling, digging slit trenches, exhaustion, friendly fire and the omnipresence of death. He travelled with the Canadian Army on the coastal route, passing through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, liberating towns and villages along the way.  Gradually the war came to a close, and Stan stayed for a time in the Netherlands.  He also spent time in England, where he met his future wife.  After the war Stan did return to Canada for about a year, but he elected to return to England, and that is where he and his new wife made their way in the postwar world.  Stan Deveau was interviewed by Scott Masters and Zach Dunn over zoom in December 2024.