The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 379 NORTON, Trueman Ellis WWII Trueman was born north of Carnduff in 1917. He enlisted in the Army in the spring of 1940 and served in England with the South Saskatchewan Regiment. Trueman was killed in action on August 19, 1942 in the Dieppe Raid. He is buried in the Brookwood Military Cemetery in England. NORWEST, Henry Louis WWI Henry was born in 1884 in Prince Albert. He was a former ranch hand and rodeo performer and had served for a short time with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police until September 1915 when he joined the Canadian Army. In his nearly three years of service with the 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Lance-Corporal Norwest achieved a documented sniping record of 115 fatal shots. While he was an outstanding marksman, the thing that set him apart from the others was his superb stealth tactics and his expertise in the use of camouflage. As a result of his exceptional abilities, his superiors frequently sent him on reconnaissance missions into “No Man’s Land” behind enemy lines. In 1917, Henry earned the Military Medal during the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the following year, he was awarded the bar to his Military Medal. Only three months before the end of the war in 1918, he was on a mission to find a German sniper’s lair when he was killed by the enemy sniper. OGENCHUK, John WWII John was born in Alticane, Saskatchewan on March 4, 1919. He joined the Army during World War II but had to return home in 1944 to help his mother as his father had Tuberculosis and his brother and sister had M.S. John was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 116, for forty years before he passed away on July 11, 2008. John delivered crosses and wreaths for the Legion for forty years and his wife Ann continued to do so after his death.
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