The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 167 HERBERT, Sidney WWII Sidney was born in Quill Lake, Saskatchewan in 1921. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy and was a Leading Stewart on convoy duty and submarine patrol in Canada and in the North Atlantic from 1942-1945. Married with two children, Sidney was a member of Quill Lake Legion Branch 37 and the Saskatoon Legion for forty-six years. He died in 1991 and was buried in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Saskatoon. HEWITT, Oscar WWI Oscar was born in 1895 in England and came to Canada in 1914. He later joined the 128th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Moose Jaw and went overseas in 1915. He fought in the battles of Ypres, Arras, the Somme, Mons, Passchendaele as well as at Vimy Ridge from April 9-14, 1917, which the Canadian Divisions took with 10,000 casualties. Oscar was at Mons when the war ended in 1918. He often spoke of the troops of Canadian soldiers, “The Dumbells”, who cheered up the troops, often behind the lines “when there was nothing else to cheer about”. He returned to Canada to farm in the Davyroyd district. He was a member of The Legion at Readlyn and Assiniboia and sold poppies every year, even during blizzards. Oscar passed away in 1987. HILLCOX, Arthur WWI Arthur was born in Peterborough, Ontario in 1884 and lived in Saskatchewan’s Westasta District. He joined the Army and served for three years as a Private with the 28th Platoon, 214 Battalion (later became the 5th Battalion), in Canada, England, and France. Discharged in 1919, he married Lillian, had five children, and lived in the Spalding district. He might have been a member of Westasta Legion Branch for eight years. He died in May 1971 and is buried in Naicam Cemetery in Saskatchewan.
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