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detective NEW!!! can you help? I'm trying to assemble a Saskatchewan WWI honour roll
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Veterans II For Saskatchewan’s centennial in 2005, a memorial
has been erected in the Legislative grounds at Regina that has
inscribed on it the names of the almost 5,000 Saskatchewan men and a few women who
sacrificed their lives for freedom during World War II, in Korea, and on
peacetime operations since. The final list of 4,797 casualties includes:
World War II - Navy 172 Army 2309 RCAF 2092 Merchant Marine 25 Civilians with RAF Ferry Command etc. 10 Royal Navy 3 British Army 5 RAF 60 British Merchant Marine 1 Indian Army 1 US Navy 7 US Army 15 USAAF 7
Korean War - Navy 1 Army 36 US Army 3
Peacetime Operations - Navy 7 Army 13 RCAF 32
The perfect companion to the war memorial is Age Shall Not Weary Them: Saskatchewan Remembers its War Dead. Click here to get your copy.
NOTE: you can still view the website that was created to help collect information on those 5,000 heroes by clicking on this link.
MISSING CASUALTIES:
During the long process of assembling names for the memorial, a number of names came up that we were unable to include. The following appear on various honour rolls from around the province, but I have been unable to match them to names on the Official Casualty List.
Although it is now too late to include additional names on the memorial, the search continues! It is to be hoped that the material we have collected on these boys can eventually be built into a website similar to the Canadian Virtual War Memorial. Can you help?
Albertville - Florence Van Grinsvan Canwood - Jim Machord, Leonard Rasmussen Carlyle - Fred Adams Codette - F Bennet, E Gee, TG Smith, J Sutherland Creelman - M Johns, Stanley Smith Cupar - J Switzer Cut Knife - V Wehrhahn Eastend - L Gordon Glaslyn - David Charette, Wm. Davis, John Thompson Glentworth - Ted Brown Goodeve - WM Daniels Harris - John McNeil Kelvington - M Kuszinir Kinistino - Arnold Johanson Lajord - Jim Sukar Lampman - Frank White Langham - Harry Watson Lanigan - John Govan, George Roseborough Lashburn - H Harris Lebret - Alex Boileau, G Pelletier Lemsford - Donald Reed Lloydminster - CW Sutton Luseland - Keith Danielson Melfort - Hector Lavigne Melville - T Miller Meota - Cpl Francois Xavier Villeneuve Mitchellton - Jack Farrow, C Grant Montmartre - R Mitchell Moose Jaw - Sgt Douglas Hall, Pte Donald Hugh McRae, Lt George Reigel, Sgt Dales Warner F/O DF McGourlick also appears on Moose Jaw honour roll. However, Don sent the following email in June 2005 : “Was shot down and declared MIA on August 7, 1943 and spent next three months with the Resistance in France until I escaped back to England. In the interim the government efficiently did its paperwork and I was officially declared deceased. Fortunately still alive and kicking 62 years later.” Moosomin - William Leadley North Battleford - Sgt K Holt, Muriel Almyra Morthlaw, D Price, Hurbert Purdy, Roy Simpson Ogema - T Gilbert, WE Jones, H Millar, S Woods Pelly - Gordon Ferguson Pierceland - Jack Finn, George Kuchryn Porcupine Plain - Stanley Chip Prince Albert - G McBride Rosetown - Harry Cargill Rouleau - Douglas Irvine St. Walburg - Walter Knutson Somme - O Laross Stoughton - Wesley Hill Sturgis - G Ellrose, H Korluk, P Owens Tisdale - G Clark, W Collins Viscount - George H Dixon, Jon D Morin Wadena - Frank Child, H Gayman Waldheim - Stanley Penner Weyburn - AE Kelly, L Rainey Wilkie - Cecil W Gaston, John Gibson Wynyard - Pte W Hardy Yorkton - J Cummins, E Ellis, A Ellisa, G Gibson, G Johnson, RF McKee, R Sly, V Smaltz, Pte Chas Smith, J Smith, ME Sobkowicz, W Taylor, A Thomas, A Thompson, W Tripp, J Webster, C Wilson, William Wuerch
Note, too, that we are still turning up boys with significant Saskatchewan connections that we have not yet heard of. For example, not long ago I was leafing through a book of Alberta place names and came across a lake named for an Edmonton airman who perished during World War II. His bio contained the information that he was born at Leader, Sask., yet I had never heard of him until that minute!
So keep your eyes peeled - and please, please, get in touch with any information you may come across that will assist us in completing the Saskatchewan honour roll.
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