The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 145 HOLMES, George Raymond WWI George was born at Chatham, Ontario on December 24, 1885. He took schooling there. He went west with his brother Walter in 1905 on the harvest excursion train for harvest. Ten dollars made the round trip. Then in 1906, he moved with his parents to Alameda and farmed. He joined the Army in 1916 during the First World War and went overseas. He was a Private in the 100th Battalion. He took sick with the Spanish Flu over there and was sent back to a Winnipeg hospital and passed away while in the Forces on December 3, 1918. George is buried in the soldiers’ cemetery in Winnipeg. HOLMES, George W. PEACETIME George arrived in 1925 at the farm of Violet and Chester Holmes, located about four miles south east of Frobisher. He spent the first ten years of schooling in the little country school, at the time the attendance ranged from 15 to 22 students and one teacher for all ten grades. Those were the depression years. He farmed a couple of years before heading off to the University of Saskatchewan in the fall of 1945. He graduated in Agricultural Engineering in 1949. He married Elizabeth (Betty) Ranson in 1951 and moved to Winnipeg. In 1958, two years after joining Imperial, he was transferred to Edmonton, then to Toronto in 1968 and they are now in Agincourt, a Toronto suburb. They have a four boys Kim, Donald, David and Robert. HOLMES, Henry Chester WWI Chester was born on March 5, 1896 at home on the farm near Chatham, Ontario. At the age of ten, he went west with his parents and bother in the spring of 1906 and attended Sandringham and Fairplain schools. In 1909 they moved to the Fairplain school district and also attended school there. In 1913 they moved to a farm south-west of Alameda. In the spring of 1918 Chester enlisted in the army and went overseas. He was released from the Army in July 1919. He worked at Foxwarren and Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. When the cyclone hit his place in 1920 he went home to help with the harvest. In November 1920 he went picking oranges in California. In the fall of 1921 he went home to run the steam engine. On July 30, 1924 he married Violet Lachrisha Jane Moore and moved to a farm south-east of Frobisher. They had two sons, George and Raymond. In December they moved into Frobisher but continued farming until 1970. Chester passed away on July 30, 1984.
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