The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 71 DILLABAUGH, Joseph James “Joe” WWI Joe was born on January 22, 1895 in Virden, MB and came with his widowed mother to a farm near Coleville, SK. On July 12, 1916, he enlisted as a Private with the 210th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Moose Jaw, SK. By June 1917, he was in France fighting in the trenches with the 46th Battalion and on August 24, he received severe shrapnel wounds and as a result, was evacuated back to England. He was granted permission and married an English lady, Violet Gidley, in London in January 1918 and in April, he rejoined his unit in France. Joe and Violet sailed on the S.S. Metagama in September 1919 to Quebec where he was released on September 24. They took up farming at Canwood, SK and Joe died there on September 18, 1936. DITTER, Albert Stewart “Bert” WWII Bert was born in Kelvington, SK on March 2, 1920. He joined the Army in Regina, SK on December 5, 1941 and served over the next few years in Saskatchewan in Moose Jaw, Prince Albert and Dundurn, as well as in Wainwright, AB and Sussex, NB. On April 1, 1945, he went to the United Kingdom and then to Nijmegen, Holland. He returned to Regina on January 25, 1946 and was discharged a few months later, on March 14. Bert was a fifteen-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion, first at Rose Valley Branch 214 then at Arborfield Branch 203. He died on January 5, 2010. DOIGE, William Hazlitt “Bill” WWII Bill was born on June 6, 1920 at Medstead, SK. He taught in rural schools then enlisted in Saskatoon on December 4, 1941. He was posted to a course to become a physical training instructor but ruptured a disc in his back. He re-mustered to the RCAF education offices in Sidney, NS, Scoudouc, NB and Gaspe, QC, providing services for airmen re-mustering into a new trade. On August 31, 1945 in Yarmouth, NS, Sergeant Doige left the service after having his disc problem repaired. He got his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and taught at Welwyn, Govan, Craik, Wadena and Saskatoon schools. Ten years later, he joined the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Arts and Science to direct its upgrading program until it was taken over by the Community Colleges. Then he and another teacher took over the high school at Handel, SK where he remained until he developed a cancer and took early retirement. Bill was married with three sons and one daughter.
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