193 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca SADLER, Lyman W. WWII Lyman enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in May 1941 in Calgary and served as a Leading Aircraftman with 435 Squadron in the United Kingdom, India, and Burma. He was discharged in Winnipeg in November 1945. Lyman was a member of Russell Legion Branch 159 before he passed away in 2000. SAFRUIK, William “Bill” WWII Bill was born in Piney, Manitoba on September 4, 1918. He “rode-the-rails” to Fort William/Port Arthur in the early days of WWII. Unable to find employment and to avoid unwanted bush-work, he joined the Forces on November 27, 1941. After basic training in Port Arthur, embarkation took Bill to northern Scotland with the Canadian Forestry Corps. Unknowingly, he had enlisted into a unit that would see him doing the same work he had joined to free himself from. Bill met and married Elizabeth Ann Moodie in Glasgow, Scotland and he preceded his bride to Canada to prepare their future. Private Safruik was discharged on September 12, 1945 prior to taking work in Pine Falls, where he then lived with his wife, and raised a son. Bill has been a member of Pine Falls Legion Branch 64 for over sixty-four years and now lives in Pineview Lodge in Pine Falls, where he readily talks about the past. He was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, the War Medal 1939-45, and the Defence Medal. SCAIFE, Albert L. WWI Albert was born in 1882 in England. He came to Canada in 1911 and his family followed a year later. He joined the Winnipeg Rifles and fought at Vimy and Ypres, where he was taken prisoner, spending the remainder of the war working in a coal mine near Essen, Germany. Albert believed he and his POW pals would have starved but for the Red Cross parcels they received. He came home in late 1919. The Scaife family arrived in Mather, Manitoba from Mowbray in 1932 to work on the CPR. Later, Albert was custodian of the school and groundskeeper at the Mather Cemetery. He was a Charter Member of the newly-formed Cartwright-Mather Legion Branch 86, received his 25-year Pin and Lifetime membership card, and was a member for forty-one years. In 1936, he and his wife returned to France to see the unveiling of the Vimy Memorial. Two of his sons, Chester and George, were killed in World War II. Albert died in 1971. SALAVICH, Frank WWII Frank was born in Teulon, Manitoba in 1925. He enlisted in the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada in October 1943 and served in Canada, England, and Continental Europe. He was wounded in Germany and spent time in hospitals in Belgium and Winnipeg. Frank was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, the 1939-45 Star, George VI Medal, France and Germany Star, and the Defence Medal. He was discharged in January 1946. Frank has been a member of Russell Legion Branch 159 for over forty-seven years.
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