LIEUTENANT COLONEL ERNEST PUGMIRE

At 18, he entered the army's Toronto training school, left it nine months later to deal with a wayward world. He became one of the army's most accomplished performers on the euphonium. Ernest could make men cry with his deep-throated horn.

He married British-born Ann Vickers, daughter of a well-to-do businessman, who had marched to the army from the Episcopal Church.

In 1914 he sailed aboard the Empress of Ireland for a London convention with 300 of Canada's top Salvationists. In a thick St. Lawrence River fog, a freighter cut the Empress in two; she capsized and 200 of the Salvationists were among the 1,024 passengers and crewmen who drowned. But Ernest, a powerful swimmer, survived.

He served in China and Japan as Chief Secretary. He was in the mountains near Tokyo when the earthquake of 1923 rocked the island, and he plunged into the work of relief. After eight years he was brought back home to become Chief Secretary for The Canada West Territory.