The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 245 MOTHERWELL, David WWII David was born to Sandy Motherwell and Jean Taylor, in the Fisher District of Birch Hills around 1922, and attended school at Fisher and Birch Hills. He enlisted in the Air Force with #96 Squadron as a navigator wireless operator serving in Canada and England. He had enlisted in the Army but transferred to the RAF overseas. He passed away on May 15, 1944, at age 31, and is buried at Stoke Road Cemetery, Slough, Birmingham, England. MOWAT (GREYEYES), Irene Esther Beatrice WWII Irene was born in Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, SK, on January 18, 1925. She joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corp on March 31, 1943, and served in Canada. She was discharged on September 18, 1946, and received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and 1939-45 Medal. MURRAY, Charles “Chic” WWII Charles was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1923. He joined the FIFE & FORFAR YEOMANARY, serving in Holland, Germany and France, and was a tank driver or an operator of the flame thrower with the 7th Armoured Division of the Desert Rats. He drove one of the tanks up onto the Gold Beach at Normandy on D-Day. Charles passed away on November 11, 2001. MUMM (CAMPBELL), Doreen WWII Doreen was born in Canwood, SK, on November 5, 1923. She joined the Armed Forces in 1943, and took training as a clerk/typist, and later worked as a nurse’s aid, which suited her better. She often talked about her disappointment that the war ended just as she received word that she was to be sent overseas. She met and married Ed Mumm in 1948, and they moved to Big River, SK, and eventually bought a farm south of Shellbrook, SK, where they raised five children. Later, they became one of the first farms in Canada to specialize in Leaf Cutter Bees. Ed was killed in a car accident in 1974, and Doreen continued with the farm until her death from cancer in 1982.
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