The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 73 BOTTERILL, Gordon Franklin WWII Gordon was born on December 4, 1921. He joined the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1943 and served as a Private in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia at Red Deer, Regina and Esquimalt. He was discharged in 1945. Gordon passed away on February 22, 2005. BOYER, Albert “Hap” KOREA & PEACETIME Hap was born in 1928 in Murray Lake and he joined the Army and served in Japan, Germany and Cyprus. Wherever he was stationed, he entertained people with his fiddling. In Korea, he started a band and one of his officers decided his band needed a name. He had a stand painted out of wooden beer boxes and painted the name “Hap Boyer’s Homesteaders” on it. The name stuck. Hap passed away in 2012. BOYER, Euclide WWII Euclide was born in St. Laurent, Saskatchewan. He joined the Army on March 4, 1942 and served in Europe during World War II as a Private with the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment of Canada). He was discharged on March 4, 1945 and was awarded five medals.
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