The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 111 DAD, J. G. “Godly” WWII Godly was born on September 26, 1920 at Gilbert Plain, Manitoba. He enlisted in the Army at Winnipeg on July 7, 1940 and served first with a Field Ambulance Unit (RCAMC) and then with the Provost and the Army Service Corps (RCASC) in the United Kingdom, Sicily, Italy and Northwest Europe. He left the service in Winnipeg on February 16, 1946 as a Warrant Officer. From 1948 to 1969, he served in the reserves 21st Field Squadron of Engineers (RCE). Married with one son and one daughter, he worked with the Hudson Bay Mining Company at Flin Flon, Manitoba, after the war and with the Duval Potash Company, the Department of Transport in Saskatoon, and with the Correctional Services of Canada. DAGERT, Lorne Elmer WWII Lorne was born in Watrous, Saskatchewan, on September 24, 1925. He joined the Navy in Victoria, British Columbia, at age 17 in June 1943, and took his basic training at Sydney, Nova Scotia, and from there to Cornwallis for a gunnery course and back to Victoria, where he was assigned to the Prince Henry, a landing craft carrier. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Prince Henry ferried the Regina Rifles to Juno Beach to take part in the land invasion. The English Channel was jammed with over 7,000 navy vessels, a combined American, British, Canadian and French effort. The original mission was to take German prisoners back to England. After the D-day operations ceased he took another gunnery course and was transferred to the Lanark Frigate. After the cease fire in 1945, he sailed back to Newfoundland and on to Halifax and received his discharge on September 21, three days before his 20th birthday. Lorne retired from the CNR in 1980 and he and his wife, Pauline, have lived in Kamloops for 35 years and celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary in June 2010. DARBYSHIRE, Edgar WWI Edgar was born in Winrick, England, in 1897. He joined the First Troop “A” Squadron Queen’s Boys in 1917 and saw action in France and Germany. In 1921, he came to Ontario and married Nina Wells and went to Ridgedale in 1925 and raised six children and farmed until 1942 then moved to British Columbia. Edgar passed away on March 9, 1988 at Salmon Arm, British Columbia and was buried with full Legion Honours. DALE, F. W. S. WWII F. W. S. Dale was born on December 4, 1916 in Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force on June 2, 1943, serving in Canada and the United Kingdom. He left the service on February 12, 1946 as LAC. He is married.
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