The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 319 NELSON, Andrew Gustaf “Gust” WWI Gust was born on November 11, 1895 in Jamtland, Sweden and immigrated with his parents to a homestead near Bagley, Saskatchewan in 1904. He was enrolled as a Private in the Saskatchewan Regiment on June 6, 1918, and served in the regiment’s Prince Albert Detachment until his release on January 29, 1919. Gust passed away in Melfort, Saskatchewan on November 5, 1988, and is interred in the Carrot River Valley Lutheran Cemetery in Bagley. NELSON, Gerald WWII Gerald was born in Viscount, SK to Peter and Anna Nelson. He took a correspondence course in radio and wrote exams in Toronto in 1940 then joined the Royal Canadian Navy during the war, spending a lot of time on ships as an Officer. After the war, he worked for the Marconi Company, then he and his family moved to the States where Gerald was employed with the Bendix Company. Before he retired to Orlando, Florida, he had his own shop in Fort Lauderdale. Gerald raised two sons with his wife, Joyce Finch. NELSON, Orvin Kenneth WWII Orvin was born on August 28, 1921in Meacham, SK. He went to school there but moved with the family to Livelong in 1930. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a Flying Officer/RAF Bomb Aimer with the No. 102 Ceylon Squadron. He was killed in action when his Halifax was shot down near Eindhoven, Netherlands during a night raid on Madgeburg, Germany on January 21, 1944. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial near London, England, for airmen who died with no known grave. There is also a geo memorial in Saskatchewan named in his honour: Nelson Lake, southeast of Brudell Lake, at (74J4) 58 07 107 33 .
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