The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 131 HANNAH, Glen WWII Glen served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment during the Second World War. He worked wire land well servicing. Glen married Erma Smith and had two daughters. HANNAH, Gordon WWII Gordon, the eldest in the family of Bob and Kate (Gordon) was born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan on April 23, 1914. Gordon was truly a prairie boy. He played hockey as a goaltender in his youth and in the Great Depression he worked on a threshing crew for two dollars a day. By 1937, he had joined the Auxiliary Air Force and was working at Ashdown’s Hardware in Regina. He trained at Balfour Technical School in Regina, the Brandon and Calgary #2 Wireless School. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Gordon joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and was shipped overseas, arriving in England during the Battle of Britain in November 1940. After the war, he returned to his beloved prairies for several years. He bought a motorcycle, farmed in Frobisher, worked as an order clerk in Ashdown’s, travelling salesman for a grocery chain, grain buyer at Steelman, but the lure of the west coast lingered so in 1951 he travelled to Victoria, BC to work in the shipyards. However, he frequently returned to the prairies. His first wife, Alice, passed away in 1969 and in 1972 he remarried to Barbara Woods, whom he knew during the war in England. Their happy marriage lasted over thirty years, until Gordon passed away on October 6, 2003 in his ninetieth year. HANNAH, Harold WWII Harold, the second son of Bob and Kate, was born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan in 1916. During his teen years, he worked at a United Church summer camp at Carlyle as a youth counsellor. After completing high school, he enrolled as a student at St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon to undertake the Ministry. After a year and armed with the good book, he headed out to set up a practice in Ardill, SK, but soon discovered the life of a minister was not for him. So he enrolled in Normal School in Regina. He found a job teaching a one-room school in Semans, SK. At the start of the Second World War, Harold enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Due to his teaching/religious training, he was posted to a Commonwealth Air Training base in Brantford, Ontario. His teaching role was that of bombing instructor and by the close of war, he achieved the rank of Flight Sergeant. He did not see overseas service like most of his brothers, but it did permit him to meet his future wife, Barbara Richards. They were married in Brantford in 1944. After the war, he completed his BSc at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. He then accepted a teaching position at Brandon College and raised three children: Richard, Sharon and Patrick. He belonged to the Masonic Lodge and was elected for a term as the Grand Master of Manitoba, also Lodges – Scottish Rite and Shriners. Harold passed away in 1990 and Bernice in April 2005.
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