We salute those who fought for our freedom so we may live in peace.
This special edition of Your West Central Voice is dedicated to the men and women from our region that so bravely served our country. Some of them paid the supreme sacrifice. They were more than soldiers, they were sons and daughters, husbands and fathers. They came from towns and hamlets that are no longer. We can never begin to repay them, but we can remember them, every ONE of them.
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Private Frederick Harman Benson
Frederick Harman Benson was born July 3, 1886 at Edenvale, Simcoe County, Ontario and moved west to work as a carpenter.
Private Frank Theodore Peter Netzel
Frank Theodore Peter Netzel served as a Private with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, 9th Field Ambulance during the Second World War.
Flight Sergeant Raymond Ranger
Raymond Ranger, born October 20, 1921 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan, completed his education in Kindersley in 1937.
Private Otto Helmer
Otto Helmer, born November 30, 1918 at Leader, Saskatchewan, completed his education at Mendham, Saskatchewan in 1933.
Gunner Cecil Duffin Bourne
Cecil Duffin Bourne, born April 5, 1919 at Eston, Saskatchewan, grew up in Kindersley, Saskatchewan where he completed his education.
Private John Affleck Buckham
John Affleck Buckham was born March 5, 1889 at The Glebe, Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Buckham came with his family to Canada in 1901 and first settled in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
Private Earl Conrad Swalm
Earl Conrad Swalm, born January 29, 1920 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan, completed his education at Merrington High School in Kindersley in 1937 before working on the family farm.
Private Edward Max Ellefson
Edward Max Ellefson, born November 8, 1923 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan, attended Prince Edward School in nearby Fairmount where he completed his education in 1940.
Remembering Our Veterans: Eston and Area
World War I veterans and enlistments from Eston, Plato, Madison, Richlea and Lacadena.
Flying Officer Clifford Leonard Horncastle
Clifford Leonard Horncastle, born September 25, 1918 at Eston, Saskatchewan, moved to Edmonton, Alberta as a child where he completed his education at Strathcona High School.
Flight Lieutenant Robert James Land
Died: Jan 14, 1945, Commemorated at Oldenzaal Roman Catholic Cemetery, Netherlands.
Warrant Officer Class II James Joseph Zunti
James Joseph Zunti, born February 2, 1916 on the family farm near Luseland, Saskatchewan, completed his early education at Deer Lodge School near Luseland in 1930.
Private Norman Mackenzie
Norman MacKenzie was born in Gairloch, Scotland, July 3, 1891. He came to Salvador, Saskatchewan, where his sister and brother-in-law Christina & Alex Fowler had a homestead.
Flying Officer Donald Kenneth Robertson
Donald Kenneth Robertson was born May 20, 1919 at Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, the only son of Kenneth and Florence Wilhelmina “Wilma” (nee Coe) Robertson, and brother of Margaret Elizabeth Laura, Doro- thy Wilhelmina, and Alex Roberta Robertson.
Private Barry Cocks
Barry Cocks was the fourth born of seven children in the family of David and Esther Cocks of Leader, Saskatchewan.
Warrant Officer Class II John Palmer
John Palmer (born as ‘Palamer’), born April 17, 1919 at Prelate, Saskatchewan, grew up on the family farm near Eatonia, Saskatchewan, completing his public education in 1936.
The Lea Brothers
Harlan was born in Minnesota, USA, on June 29, 1918. He moved with his parents as a young boy to Smiley, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan for a year before joining the R.C.A.F.
David Arthur Webb
David Arthur Webb, born January 11, 1922 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan, completed his education at Kindersley High School in 1940.
Memories of WWII veteran Ralph Hamel
Lucille Knorr of Kindersley received the surprising news that a book had just been published about her dad’s WWII bombing mission.