The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 183 FAIR, Frank WWI Frank enlisted in the Army in World War I and served as a Sergeant with the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade. He was killed in action on March 26, 1918 and is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen, France. Frank received the Distinguished Conduct Medal. FALLOON, George Hugh WWII George was born on October 28, 1916 in Strasbourg, Saskatchewan and he died on July 28, 1991. He enlisted on June 24, 1940 and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in Canada and the United Kingdom. During a bombing raid, his plane was hit by a shell that severed the petrol control cable and oil pipelines resulting in oil flowing into the fuselage. Flying Officer Falloon took an axe and hacked his way through the fuselage, crawled inside the wing and made temporary repairs by torch light enabling the bomber to return to base safely. George was also wounded in an aircraft crash on December 24, 1923. He was discharged on June 28, 1945. He was a member of Manitoba’s Forrest Legion Branch for fourteen years and Smeaton Legion Branch 319 for thirty-two years before he passed away on July 28, 1991. He received the Flight Engineer’s Badge, the 1939-45 Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, the Distinguished Flying Medal and the Royal Canadian Air Force Operational Wings. FARDEN, Kenneth “Ken” WWII Ken was born in 1922 in Outlook, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an Aero engine mechanic in November 1942 and was sent to the Manning Depot No. 18 in Toronto S.F.T.S. where he trained for six weeks. During that period, he met Berne Gruenig who became his wife in October 1943. Ken’s next posting was to Centralia, Ontario where he spent seven months before transferring to Gimli, Manitoba. After one year, he was shipped to Boundary Bay, British Columbia which was an operational training unit. He was there when the war ended. Ken was a Leading Aircraftman. He was a member of the Great War Veterans Association No. 51 for forty years and he died in 2007.
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