The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 91 COE, George Robert WWII George, son of E. P. and Agnes Coe, was born at Kenosee Lake on October 2, 1924. He joined the Army Cadets, then the Reserve Army in 1941, and the Active Army in 1942 and went overseas with the Regina Rifles Regiment, part of the second wave to land on the beach in Normandy on June 8, 1944. He was severely wounded at Caen and died on July 9, 1944 at age 19 and is buried at Reviers, Calvados, France. Coe Lake in northern Saskatchewan has been named in his honour. His medals are the 1939-45 Star, the France/Germany Star, the Defence Medal, the Voluntary Medal and bar and the King George 1939-45 War Medal. COLEMAN, John Gordon WWII Gordon was born on June 4, 1920 on a prairie homestead near Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Army on February 5, 1942 at Regina and served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment in the United Kingdom and Northwest Europe. He left the service at Regina on January 25, 1945 as a Corporal. Married with two sons and one daughter, John worked on the farm before the war and afterward with the Veterans’ Land Act Administration. He had his left leg amputated below the knee as a result of injuries sustained near Roue in Normandy. He is active in the War Amputations of Canada, serving as secretary-treasurer of the Saskatchewan executive and on the national executive as director and as a reporter for the association. COLLINS, Harvey Edward WWII Harvey was born on a farm near Keys, Manitoba, on May 24, 1924. He joined the RCNVR in Regina on March 26, 1942 and was posted to HMCS Queen and went to Scotland and the UK on June 20, 1942, where he trained as a stoker machinest and served in that position aboard British ships: Charney, Niobe, Ferret, Aberdine and the Itchen. He returned to Canada with a medical category “D” aboard the Queen Mary, arriving in New York, then up to Canada where he was posted to British Columbia where he served aboard the Stone Frigates Naden and Givenchy 111. He was demobilized on August 16, 1945 and was awarded the 1942-Star, the African Star with Clasp, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, and the 1945 War Medal. He married Velma Hibbard on May 24, 1945 and they raised four children: Wade, Trudy, Gary and Cheryl. Harvey passed away on March 7, 2006. COLLER, Alfred WWII Alfred was born in 1921. He joined the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps on October 1, 1940, at the age of 19, and was attached to the Royal 22nd Infantry Regiment 1st Canadian Division serving in England, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium and Germany and was attached to the Gurkhas for six months in Italy. He was discharged on August 31, 1945 and resided in North Portal, Saskatchewan, until he passed away in 1976.
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