He's orginally from Black's Harbour and by today's standards he would be considered a triple threat having served in the army, navy and in the air force.
86-year-old Maynard Gaudet tells CHSJ News his trade was meterology so he could go anywhere they flew planes or be stationed where they needed weather reports.
He tells us he spents three years in France with the occpational forces following World War Two and from there went to Ottawa, Cold Lake and then Halifax.
Gaudet lives at the Ridgewood veteran's wing in Saint John which he describes as a must adding the vets there are very well taken care of.
There are two services in Bordertown where you can remember....one at the cenotaph on Milltown Blvd in front of the St. Stephen's University and another at the war memorial in Milltown by the grandstand.