The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 409 WALLACE, Keirn W. WWII Keirn was born on January 15, 1919 in Dodsland, Saskatchewan. From January 14, 1941, he served with the Calgary Tank Regiment in Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy and Northwest Europe, leaving the service as a Trooper on January 4, 1945. Keirn married and became a member of Nutana Legion Branch 362. WALLS, Howard Thomas WWI Howard was born in 1889 in Blackville, New Brunswick. He served twenty-one and a half months in France with the 5th Battalion as an infantryman and sniper. He received two gold casualty stripes for injuries sustained on November 11, 1917 and September 2, 1918, as well as three blue service chevrons. He was wounded a third time and finished the war in hospital, never receiving his third casualty stripe. He fought at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele and was also in the first mustard gas attack of the war. Howard made Sergeant near the end of the war. He passed away in 1962. WALTER, Caleb “Kelly” WWI Kelly was born in England in 1885 and came to Quill Lake, Saskatchewan in 1910. He joined the Canadian Army and served as a Vickers machine gunner with the 5th Platoon, 5th Battalion. Private Walter served in Canada, England, France, and Western Europe. He married and had two children. Kelly died in 1968 and is buried in White Rock, British Columbia.
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