The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 51 BERGREN, Ray Edward WWII Ray was born on January 27, 1919 in Viscount, SK where he farmed with his dad until he joined the Army in 1940. He transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943 to serve as a Wireless Air Gunner and was one of the soldiers they did experiments on with mustard gas in Suffield, AB. After his discharge in January 1945, he married Myrtle Nelson and they raised four children. At the beginning of his marriage, he worked as a grain buyer in Traynor, SK, then moved to Saskatoon, SK to work for Robin Hood Flour Mill as a grain diverter. From 1960, he ran his own business as a fruit and vegetable peddler until he retired in 1990. Ray died in Saskatoon on February 22, 2005. BERQUIST (nee BAKER), Patricia “Pat” WWII Pat was born on March 17, 1922 in Plunkett, SK. She attended the Glynfield and Badger schools, took Grade IX and part of X by correspondence and then worked for various families in the district. After war broke out, she moved to Toronto, ON to work at the AvroAnson Aircraft plant then joined the Army in February 1943. Attached to the Pay Corps, she served with the Canadian Women’s Army Corps at various locations in Ontario and in Sainte-Anne-deBellevue, QC before she was discharged in March 1945 to look after her ailing mother. Her siblings, Frank and Harold Baker, had also enlisted in Toronto, ON. Later on in Saskatoon, SK, Pat married Ed Berquist with whom she had four children. She still resides there. BERRISFORD (nee BERGREN), Vivien WWII Vivien was born in Viscount, SK in 1915. She took her early education at Viscount Consolidated School, and then began her nursing training at Saskatoon City Hospital in1936. She enlisted in 1943 and served as a Lieutenant with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in England. During her service in England, she was one of two nurses chosen to nurse former Prime Minister, R. B. Bennett. After the war, she continued nursing, first in Saskatoon, SK where she married Enoch ‘Barry’ Berrisford, then Lethbridge, AB and finally in White Rock, BC until she retired in 1980. Vivien and her brother, Ray Bergren, both served in the Armed Forces. She died in 1996.
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