Culbert Veterans Presented with Parker Pens

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. After the war ended, Biddulph Township Council presented all the returned Service men and women of World War Two with a Parker fountain pen and Eversharp pencil set with their names engraved on them.[1]

A reception was held in Granton, Ontario, near Lucan on the evening of Tuesday, 25 June 1946.

Brothers, Kenneth Arthur Culbert, Ivan Hector Culbert, and Milward Taylor "Mel" Culbert received their pen sets at this reception. This photo was published in the London Free Press the next day, 26 June 1946...

LUCAN VETERANS HONOURED: Left to right: Ken Culbert, a former Flight Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF); Ivan Culbert, a former Sergeant who just recently returned from 6 years and 4 months of overseas duty; and Mel Culbert, a former RCAF Sergeant. The Free Press caption says the Culbert brothers were from Granton but it should say Lucan.

Parker pens were used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur to sign the agreements that ended World War II.

Eisenhower holding Parker pens.

Parker pen used in the signing of the German surrender, WWII.

In a previous post, I listed some of the descendants of John Culbert and Mary Ward who served in World War One. Ken, Ivan, and Mel were just three of the many Culbert descendants who served during World War Two. 

Photo colourized by Phil Culbert.

If you'd like to see Phil Culbert's Remembrance Day tribute to his father, Ivan Culbert, click here to visit his Facebook page. 

Footnotes: [1] Pioneers to the Present: Biddulph Township Sesquicentennial History Book 1850-2000, Lucan, Ont. : Corp. of the Township of Biddulph, 1998, p.26.