113 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca GODON, Philip WWI Philip was born in Rock Lake, Manitoba, in 1872. He joined the 78th Winnipeg Grenadiers and was killed in action in France in 1918. GOODWILLIE, George Pearson WWI George was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1888 and came to Canada in 1909 to the Neepawa area where his older brother, Charles was farming. He went back to Scotland and married Annie Ross in February 1915. In June 1915, he was back in Canada signing up with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces and was sent overseas with the Canadian Infantry, Manitoba Regiment and was killed in Belgium on August 11, 1916. He is buried at the Maple Copse Cemetery in Lepers, Belgium. He had one son, John Fraser Goodwillie, born in 1916, but he died at age 2. It is not known if George ever saw his son. GRANTHAM, Robert James “Jim” WWI Jim was born in Gladstone, Manitoba, in 1887. He enlisted with the Canadian Army in 1915 and went overseas with the 226th Battalion in 1916. He was on the front lines when poison gas was first used and he was almost killed. He fought in the battle of Passchendale. After the war, Jim came home to Gladstone to farm and married Margaret Morrison in 1925, but she died a year later. In 1932, he married Martha Otto and they raised two sons, Roland and Richard. In the late 1940’s, Jim and Martha retired to a house in Gladstone and spent many happy years gardening. James passed away in 1967. GOODWILLIE, George Pearson WWII George was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1922. He joined the Navy and was part of the Corvette Buctouche-Triangle Run, the Corvette Agassiz-North Atlantic Run, the Corvette Tillsonburg-North Atlantic. He received the 1939-1945 Star, the Atlantic Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, the War Medal 1939-1945, and the General Service Badge. After the war, George lived in Winnipeg, MB, and became an investigator for Retail Credit Company where he met his wife, Charlotte Grosser. They were married in 1947 and had two children, Linda and David. In 1972, he began a career with the Unemployment Insurance Commission of the Federal Government and took a job in Brandon, MB. The family moved near Arden, MB, and George eventually opened an Employment Office in Neepawa, MB, and was there until his retirement in 1987, at which time he was able to devote more time to his small cattle herd. He passed away in Gladstone, MB, in 2005.
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