The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 75 BRADSHAW, Bill PEACETIME & RCMP Bill joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and served from 1951 to 1955. He then enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and served in the Military Police from 1956 to 1972 after which he held the appointment of Sheriff in Courtenay, British Columbia from 1973 to 1988. Bill was a member of Courtenay Legion Branch 17 for over forty years. At one time, his parents were partners in the Chrysler dealership in Nipawin. BRADWELL, Francis John “Frank” WWII Frank was born in Saskatoon in 1924. He joined the Army in Regina on September 15, 1943, went to England for more training then to Europe with the 7TH Recce Regiment Gone missing in The Netherlands, he was a POW from December 18, 1944 in the Stalag XI Concentration Camp until his liberation on April 27, 1945 having lost about 35 pounds. After some time in the hospital, he returned home to Macklin and worked on the farm but became restless. He went to Exshaw to work for Canada Cement where he stayed until his retirement in 1983. Frank and his wife moved to Campbell River to golf and fish which he did until his death on May 15, 2014. He never spoke of his time in the war but did say that winters in Germany were very mild and the Sunday afternoon pastime was to sit on the veranda in their birthday suits and pick the lice out of their long johns. He was a Life Member of Alberta’s Exshaw Legion Branch 179. BRADWELL, William “Bill” WWI Bill was born in Sheffield, England in 1899 and immigrated to Canada when he was 12 years old, taking his education in Saskatoon. He joined the Army in 1918 and was shipped to Siberia with the Canadian Expeditionary Force where he served in the General Office/Payroll area, 17th Supply Depot in Vladivostock. He also served with the #10 Engineers and Railway Supply. Bill was discharged on June 14, 1919 and returned to the Saskatoon area to start farming. From 1925, he had moved and was farming in the area of Macklin. Later, he managed a general store and became postmaster for Canada Post. Bill was a Life Member of Exshaw Legion Branch 179 in Alberta before he passed away in 1975.
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