The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 295 SIMPSON, Jack WWI Jack was born in Oldham, England on July 20, 1886. He moved to Canada at an early age and first found employment at a foundry in Eastern Canada, then worked his way out west as a labourer. Following his services in the First World War, Jack returned to Frobisher. He continued to be the local handyman building chimneys, grave digging, installing windows, etc. He was also the school janitor. During the Second World War he was the local postmaster and was known to be a friend to both young and old. He was a member of the Frobisher Legion. SIMPSON, Thomas WWI Thomas was born in 1895 in Swan Lake, Manitoba. He served overseas with the Canadian Army during the First World War. He went to the Tisdale District in 1919 and was married in 1923. The family homesteaded in 1928 in the Pembina area. In 1931 the family moved to a farm near Tisdale and in 1947 they moved their farmhouse into Tisdale. They raised a family of nine children. Thomas passed away in February of 1960. SINCLAIR, John Gair WWII John was born on a farm near Congress, Saskatchewan in October 1920. He went to school at Dewdrop School. John enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force on January 13, 1942. He was sent to Dog Creek, British Columbia where he helped to build a supplementary aerodrome, home of the #11 staging unit and then helped build other airstrips and roads during the Second World War as a Road Engineer. John was discharged on March 27, 1945 and returned to the farm at Congress, SK. He married June Macalister on January 30, 1946. They raised five children on the farm and moved to Assiniboia, SK in 1988. He joined The Royal Canadian Legion Assiniboia Branch 17 in 1945 and later became a Life Member. John passed away in August 1994 in Assiniboia and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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