The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 393 TRICKETT, G. E. WWII G. E. Trickett was born on February 26, 1920 in Saskatoon. He joined the RCAF in May 1940 and served as Flying Officer in Canada and the United Kingdom until September 1945. He married and has been a member of Nutana Legion Branch 362. TROESCH, Martin KOREA Martin was born in Edam, Saskatchewan on August 21, 1930. He enlisted in Calgary in June 1950 for service in Korea and was posted to the 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. After training in Calgary and Wainwright, Alberta and Seattle, Washington, he sailed for Korea in November 1950 and returned in December 1951, leaving the Army in Regina in the spring of 1952. While in Korea, his battalion received a Unit Citation from the President of the United States. After his service, Martin operated a hotel at Edam for two years, became a welder, and worked for Trans-Canada Pipelines at Kerrobert, Swift Current, Coleville as well as with a potash mine near Saskatoon and a mine drilling operation at Uranium City. He served as president of Edam Legion Branch 106. Martin married and had a son and two daughters. TROTTER, Robert Vernon WWII Vernon was born in Sibilate, Alberta on September 23, 1918. He enlisted in Winnipeg in September 1940 and trained as a navigator, serving in the Middle East and the Far East. He completed one operational tour with Bomber Command in Burma with 99 Squadron then flew with Transport Command out of Cairo with 216 Squadron. Vernon was instructing in navigation in Summerside, Prince Edward Island on VE-Day and he left the service in Regina in November 1945 as Flight Lieutenant. After the war, he completed the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree at the University of Saskatchewan and operated a drug store in Tisdale, Saskatchewan. He moved to Saskatoon in 1976 and worked for Mount Royal Drugs until he retired in 1990. He was an elder of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Tisdale and served on the Tisdale School Board and was C.O. Air Cadet Squadron 624. He married and had one son and one daughter.
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