The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 47 BENTLEY, Michael “Mike” WWII Mike, the ninth of ten in the family, attended the Easterlea country school, north of Viscount, SK where he was born on December 14, 1918. He joined the Army in Regina, SK in 1942 and after basic and advanced training in Canada, shipped out on the Ile de France, landing in Liverpool, England. He served with the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in England, France, Belgium, Germany and Holland, attained the rank of Corporal and earned three good conduct service chevrons. Discharged in May 1946, he then married Francis Seabrook and they moved to Saskatoon, SK where Mike became an instructor with what is now known as the Kelsey Institute. After some additional training, he transferred to the Saskatoon Board of Education where he worked at the Technical Collegiate Institute until his retirement in 1979. BERANEK, Edward “Ed” WWII Ed was born on January 11, 1911in Plunkett, SK where he took his early schooling. He worked as a Canadian Pacific Railway pump man with his dad at sites in Wolverine and Colonsay. He then joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942, serving in Halifax, NS as a pump man in the maintenance department until his medical discharge in 1943 due to ruptured ulcers. After his discharge, Ed was employed by Robin Hood Mills in Saskatoon, SK as a stream engineer and a watchman until emphysema forced him to retire in 1961. He married Marybelle Finlayson. BERANEK, Jerome “Jerry” WWII Jerry was born in Colonsay, SK in 1916 and was one of four brothers who signed up for the services. Jerry attended Plunkett School then Bedford Road in Saskatoon, SK. He played goal for the Junior Wesley Hockey Team. He attended the U of S and in 1937, won a part athletic/part academic scholarship to the U of Southern California in Los Angeles, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree. Jerry was loaned to the US Government’s Navy to do research on submarine detection devices and was stationed at an underwater laboratory. He then joined the Columbia Broadcasting Corp. and became interested in television, quickly taking charge of the huge Television and Research Division at Mount Wilson, Los Angeles. Jerome died in 1954.
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