The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 203 MEADOWS, Frank Sr. BOER WAR Frank was born in England in 1875. He enlisted in the British Army in the Regiment of Royal Engineers under age using a deceased brother’s birth certificate. He served in the Egyptian Campaign. He later served in the Boer War. He was taken prisoner, reported missing, and then reported dead. As the Boers fought mainly guerrilla war, prisoners were either shot or released. Frank was lucky to be released. The cross which marks the grave read “Sapper F. Meadows” but this was a case of wring identification. Frank had served in the Army under Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. Upon returning to England in 1902, he married Nellie and opened a blacksmith shop in Harmondsworth, Essex. In 1910, Frank and Nellie immigrated to Canada with three children: Frank Jr., Walter and baby Annie to live in a tent in Moose Jaw. On September 7, 1910 he opened a shop in Pense where two more children were born: Roy and Harry. They moved to Gouverneur in Southwest Saskatchewan and Vera was born. Drought and unsatisfactory school drove the Meadows back to Moose Jaw for one year. Then they bought the blacksmith shop and moved to Frobisher. He was a member of Frobisher Legion Branch 343. In 1949, Frank passed away at the age of 74 and is buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Moose Jaw. MEADOWS, Roy WWII Roy was born in Pense, Saskatchewan. The Meadows family moved to Frobisher when Frank Sr. bought the blacksmith shop. Roy left school in grade nine to go to work for four years in his dad’s shop then went back to complete his education. He operated the Post Office as an assistant from 1932 to 1934. He moved to Regina where he worked in a garage for a short time and in December 1935 entered the insurance business. From 1942 to 1946 he was in the Army attaining the rank of Captain during the Second World War. Following the Army, he started an insurance business and moved to Toronto. MEARS, James Harry “Jim” WWI & WWII Jim was born in Steeple Bumstead, England in 1890. In August 1911, an Englishman, Jim went to Moose Horn District. James built a homestead shack and cleared some land. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Jim sold his land to C.O. Welle and enlisted in the Canadian Army, serving overseas. After the war he returned to Canada and bought land in the Wooler School District north of Clair, Saskatchewan. He married Mae Warriner and raised a family of nine children. When the Second World War broke out Jim again enlisted and served his country. Jim passed away in 1971 and is buried in the Wadena Cemetery in Wadena, SK.
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