The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 181 HILTZ, Clarence William WWI Clarence was born in Lawrencetown, NS on September 8, 1879. Clarence served in the 63rd Halifax Rifles before coming to Saskatchewan in 1906, where he joined the Army in Prince Albert on March 18, 1916 and then served with the Artillery in Holland, France and Germany. He was wounded in France by shrapnel in his head, causing him severe headaches. This brought him periodically to the Vet hospital in Winnipeg to have some removed. Before and after his discharge in 1918, Clarence farmed near Spruce Home. He married Florentine (Alice) D’Amour and raised four children. His three sons, James, Patrick and Percy, enlisted in WWII. Clarence passed away in September 1969. HILTZ, James William “Jim” WWII Jim was born in Spruce Home, SK in 1912. He joined the Army in 1940 and served in Europe as a Private with the 20th Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps. Jim and his brothers, Pat and Percy, all enlisted the same year. Their dad, Clarence, had been in WWI. Jim married Dorothy Perry and they had one son during the war. He was a member of Big River Legion Branch 136. HILTZ, Patrick Charles “Pat” WWII Pat was born on February 25, 1914 in Spruce Home, SK. He joined the Army in Prince Albert in June 1940 and served as a Gunner with the 44th Battery in Britain, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany before being discharged in 1945. His brothers, Jim and Percy, also enlisted in the Army and their father, Clarence, had served in WWI. Pat had three sons with his wife, May, and he worked as a guard at the Penitentiary in Prince Albert. In 1950, he went to work in the mine at Sheridan, and then transferred to Lynn Lake, Manitoba. He was a member of Lynn Lake Legion Branch 236 and Portage la Prairie Legion Branch 65. Pat passed away on September 27, 2007.
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