The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 109 FEADER, Garnet Kenneth “Bud” WWII Bud was born on March 10, 1924 in Young, SK. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in Edmonton, AB in September 1942, trained as a wireless operator, and monitored Japanese coded broadcasts. This took him to various Canadian locations: Edmonton and Calgary, AB; Montreal and Lachine, QC; and Toronto, Kingston, Mount Hope and Trenton, ON. He left the service in Trenton in October 1946 as Leading Aircraftsman then took two years at the University of Saskatchewan, leaving to enter the real estate business. After his firm failed, he joined the federal income tax office in Saskatoon where he remained until retirement. Since, he has offered accounting and income tax services to farmers and other individuals and says that keeps him busier than he would like. He has been a member of RCL Nutana Branch 362 since 1954 and for many years, served as chairman of the ways and means committee. He married and had two sons and two daughters. FEADER, William G. “Bill” WWII Bill was born on May 4, 1918 at Moosomin, SK. He enlisted in February 1941 in Regina, SK and was one of the first members of the 12th Field Hygiene unit of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. That unit formed part of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division and he served in eastern Canada, the United Kingdom and Northwest Europe as a field hygiene specialist. He was injured in Europe in 1943, hospitalized in England for a time before returning to the continent and in May 1945, a chunk of shrapnel slapped him in the back with too little momentum to injure him. Bill was a Staff Sergeant when he left the service in Regina in October 1945. Bill had been a teacher briefly before the war and afterwards was a credit inspector for a time before becoming student placement officer and foreign student advisor at the University of Saskatchewan. While working at the university, he completed his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce degrees. He was active at Grosvenor Park United Church and was married with one daughter. FEDERCHUCK, Michael “Mike” WWII Mike lived and worked on farms around Plunkett, Saskatchewan before joining the Army. After his discharge in 1945, he made his home in Saskatoon, SK and worked for City Hospital as well as for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a caretaker until 1968. Mike passed away in 1979.
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