This story is a part of Branch 25’s on-going National Legion Week campaign.

Trevor Page
Ordinary (Veteran) Member since 2022

Trevor is a native of New Zealand, and served ten years in the Royal New Zealand Engineer corps and the Royal New Zealand Infantry from 1972 to 1982. The highlight of his service was a two year posting to Singapore in 1979 as part of New Zealand Force South East Asia.  Later, in 1991 Trevor and his wife moved to Hawaii, where he had the honor of serving as the Facilities Operations Director on the Battleship Missouri [BB63] in Pearl Harbor until 2011.

Trevor has been a member of the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association for 42 years, and he expressed excitement to find out that the Royal Canadian Legion accepted members from all across the Commonwealth.  In particular, Trevor joined to continue his own support of veterans – especially to represent the Bay Area’s ANZAC veterans.  As a Commonwealth veteran he also expressed his support the mission of the Legion in looking after the veterans of Canada, the Commonwealth, and NATO.

Ordinary (Veteran) membership is open to any Canadian citizen or Commonwealth subject who is of federal voting age and whose service was terminated under conditions other than dishonourable or for reasons of misconduct and who served or is serving in:

• the Canadian Forces or His Majesty’s Forces, including Regular or Reserve Forces under class “C” service;
• the Forces or Underground Forces of any of His majesty’s allies in any war, conflict or police action in which Canada was involved (Provincial or Dominion Command approval is required for underground service);
• an actual theatre of war in any of the non-military services, during any war in which Canada was involved (i.e. Merchant Navy);
• His Majesty’s Reserve Forces including Cadet Instructors on Cadet Cadre, for not less than one year;
• The Royal Canadian Mounted Police or The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, for not less than one year;
• the Forces of a country while that country was a member of NATO or NORAD in alliance with Canada;
• the Forces of the United States;
• the Vietnam War in the Forces of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea or South Vietnam and who was a Canadian citizen or Commonwealth subject at time of service;
• the Canadian Coast Guard as an officer or crew member, and who has two or more years of active service on the high seas or inland waterways; or
• a city, municipal or provincial police force, as a police officer, for not less than one year.