The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 381 SWITZER, George WWII George joined the Army and passed away in 1997. He was a member of the Smeaton Branch of The Royal Canadian Legion. TAIT, Leonard Colin WWII Leonard was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in 1918. He enlisted with the RCA, 4th Medium Signals on March 13, 1942 and took signal training at Petawawa and Kingston before embarking for France on June 7, 1944. He was wounded at Death Valley near Caan and returned to Canada on September 27, 1945. Leonard passed away on September 2, 1989. TAYLOR, James Duncan WWI James was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1892. He enlisted in September 1915 with the 68th Battalion in Regina. During basic training he was given the job of exercising and looking after the captain’s horses. He was then shipped overseas to France where he worked in the Veterinary Hospital in LeHavre. At the end of the war, he went back to Regina and was discharged in April 1919. He moved to Ridgedale area, where he purchased land through the Veterans’ Land Act. James passed away in 1979. TAYLOR, Doug WWII Doug joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at age 19 in Regina on December 4, 1942 and reported for duty on April 20, 1943. He was sent to Manning Pool in Brandon for basic training and then to ITS in Saskatoon and was trained to send and receive Morse Code. He was then sent to bombing and gunnery school in Lethbridge, and then to Edmonton for more bombing training and navigation. He arrived in England in early June 1944 and witnessed the June 6th invasion of Normandy. Doug trained on larger planes, did parachute and ditching drills, and trained on what to do if they were taken as prisoners of war. He was then sent to 419 Bomber Squadron in Yorkshire, England, and managed to fly six bombing missions over Germany before the end of the war on May 8, 1945. He arrived back home in early January 1946 and was discharged in Winnipeg on February 16, 1946. He did farming for a couple of years and in 1948, worked in the Post Office as the Postmaster’s assistant, and worked at Ogema Electric in 1968. In 1982, he retired from the Post Office after 34 years of service.
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