The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 65 CABANA, G. R. WWII G. R. Cabana was born on July 7, 1923 at Montreal. He enlisted on August 2, 1939 in the Army and served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. He left the service on August 26, 1945 as a Lieutenant. G. R. Cabana is married. CADE, Robert Victor SPECIAL AREA DUTY and PEACETIME Robert was born in Stony Mountain, Manitoba, on November 29, 1933. He joined the 1st Canadian Rifles Battalion, 27th Canadian Infantry Battalion on April 1, 1949 and served in Continental Europe and Canada until his discharge on April 1, 1986. He served in the reserves, the special Panda force, Canada’s contribution to NATO in 1951. He received the Special Service Medal-NATO Bar, Commander Order of St. John and the Canadian Forces Decoration with four bars. He has been a citizen of Saskatchewan since 1965 and a member of the TVS Branch #78 of The Royal Canadian Legion for 43 years. CAIRNS, George Harry WWII George was born on February 21, 1918 at Saskatoon. He enlisted in the Navy on March 9, 1942 at Saskatoon and served as a stoker on several ships: HMCS Unicorn, HMCS Protector, HMCS Naden, HMCS Shelbourne and HMCS Stadacona. He left the service on January 4, 1946 at Saskatoon as a Leading Stoker. Married with four sons and one daughter, George worked as a school janitor since the war and for 34 years as supervisor of caretaking services for Saskatoon’s public school system. He was a founding member of Nutana Branch #362 of The Royal Canadian Legion and served as President and is a Life Member. CAIRD, James WWII James joined the Army on January 3, 1943 and took his basic training in Regina and was then sent to Calgary for advanced training. He was shipped overseas in July with twenty-two thousand soldiers and one woman nurse on one of the two boats sitting in Halifax harbour and was stationed at Whitley Camp, south of London and then transferred to Barnsley, Yorkshire, where he worked in the quartermaster stores dispensing military garb to the troops and often saw V-1 and V-2 rockets flying over while stationed there. He returned home in May 1945 and started farming with his father and in 1950, he married Marjorie Mehnke. James’ favourite song was Lili Marlene sung by Vera Lynn.
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