The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 327 PAULETT, Harmon WWI Harmon was born in 1897 in Cadoxton, South Wales. His mother and three other siblings came from Wales to join up with his father and older brother, Thomas, in 1910. He hired out to work for various farmers before enlisting in the Army in 1918 during World War I, but Armistice was signed before he was sent overseas. He was discharged that same year. His brother, Thomas (T.J.), also enlisted but was killed in action in France. His other brother, Edwin, enlisted in WWII. After the war, Harmon obtained his teachers certificate in Saskatoon, SK and he taught for a year before returning to farming, retiring in 1967. He then lived with his sister, Olive, in Rosetown, SK. PAULETT, Ted Edwin “Edwin” WWII Edwin was born in 1914 in Plunkett, SK where he completed his Grade 12. He then took a correspondence course in electricity and went to Chicago to complete the course. He then moved to BC to work as an electrician at the copper mines and he married Christine Mitchell. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and served on the HMCS Port Hope mine sweeper. After his discharge, he became head electrician at Copper Mountain in British Columbia then was transferred to Greenwood, BC where he died in 1975. PAULETT, Thomas James “TJ” WWI TJ was born on May 16th, 1894 in Cadoxton, South Wales, England. In 1910, at the age of fifteen, he came to Plunkett, SK with his father, Thomas. TJ was a single farmer when he joined the Army on October 19, 1917, serving as a Private with the 46th Battalion of the Saskatchewan Regiment. Sent overseas in May 1918, he was killed in action in the Flanders Field area on September 27, 1918. His brother, Harmon, also enlisted but Armistice was signed before he was sent overseas. His youngest brother, Edwin, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy during WWII. TJ is buried at the Triangle Cemetery at Inchy-en-Artois in Pas de Calais, France.
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