The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 297 MIDDLETON, Daniel “Dan” WWII Dan was born in Viscount, SK in 1924 and grew up in the Peterson/Lucasville area. The whole family moved to Smithers, BC when Dan and his brother, Isaac, were still children but the brothers moved back to Saskatchewan. Dan worked on Harold O’Bryan’s farm until he and Isaac enlisted. Dan joined the Royal Canadian Navy and served in Canada. After his discharge, he once again returned to Saskatchewan and he married a girl from Theodore, SK and raised a son there. Dan had been working in Theodore when he died quite young of a heart attack. Their uncle was Alfred Binding. MIDDLETON, Herbert Irvin WWII Irvin was born on January 10, 1923 on the family farm near Pense, Saskatchewan, the son of Herbert and Sarah (nee Higgins) Middleton. He enlisted as an Aircraftsman in the Royal Canadian Air Force in Regina, Saskatchewan on June 5, 1942. After initial training in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Edmonton, Alberta, he was sent to Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, where he earned his navigator wings. By September 1943, he was serving in Britain with 9th Squadron. One of his many navigation sorties included a longrange assault on the German battleship Tirpitz. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945. He was released in Regina on July 26, 1945. Irvin passed away on May 2, 1973 and is interred in Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery, Regina. MIDDLETON, Isaac Cornelius WWII Isaac was born in 1922 to George Ernest and Eva Bernardina of Viscount, SK. He joined the Army and served in Holland as a Corporal with the Regina Rifle Regiment. He was killed in action on March 3, 1945 and he is buried at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery near Nijmegen, Netherlands. Isaac left a wife, Gladys Ivy Middleton, at Smithers, BC. There is a geo–memorial in Saskatchewan named in his honour: Middleton Lake, west of Phelps Lake, at (64M4) 59 13 103 39 .
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