The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 253 REINHART, Herbert WWII Herbert was born in 1921 in Tompkins, SK. He enlisted with the Army and served in the Aleutian Islands. Herbert passed away in 2007. REIRGARDIN, Bert WWI & WWII Bert was born in Ada, Minnesota, a few miles east of Fargo. His parents lived there after moving from Iowa in 1875. On the Fargo land, they raised four hundred to five hundred bushels of potatoes per acre and shipped them to Chicago. In 1906, his dad farmed out the four boys with Bert ending up in Ulen, Minnesota. His father went to Estevan and bought a quarter-section at Mount Green. Bert arrived at Ambrose, North Dakota in 1909 and his father drove in and took him to Canada. Bert went to school for two or three years at Mount Green and helped farm. In 1916, he had a rust year and enlisted in the Army. In 1938 to 1939, he owned a garage and bulk station in Hoffer but later closed it. He enlisted in the fall of 1939, but did not get called up, so in 1940 he went to Regina and in ten days he was on the road to Kingston. With ten other boys, Bert enlisted in the Core Signals. In 1942, he got caught in an explosion and was in the 18th Field Hospital for nine months. The King’s yacht was turned into a Red Cross boat in December 1942 and they boarded her. RENNIE, Clayton Atkinson Francis WWII Clayton was born on February 15, 1917 to parents Len and Jennie May (Atkinson) in Frobisher, SK. His siblings were Melba Marion Isabel, Huel Alexander and Leona. The first social activity Clayton remembers was in 1924 when Jean Riddell invited their class to her home to take turns with radio earphones listening to King George V message to the Empire. The first exasperating thing he ever did was trying to catch gophers at three cents per tail in a multi-million dollar oil field. Clayton left Frobisher in 1939, obtained a job as salesman for the Maytag Washing Company, took a course in Winnipeg and then went selling door to door in Regina. The washer business was good but short lived. Canada was now at war with Germany and the washer companies converted to manufacturing war equipment. Clayton took the Federal Census in Frobisher and then worked as G.M. parts man at Perry Motors in Estevan until he was called up on February 13, 1942 into the Communications Branch of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and spent time in Quebec, Victoria, Prince Rupert and West Coast Patrol. On January 28, 1945, he married Mayda Elizabeth Broberg. They bought a house in Victoria, BC and Clayton got his discharge on August 25, 1945. Clayton and Mayda had three children: Warren, Brian and Sharolyn.
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