The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 375 WHITING (DAVENPORT), Pamela WWII Pamela was born in London, England. She enlisted in 1939 with the Royal Air Force. She married Frederick Whiting while in the service on December 13, 1944. After a brief honeymoon, she returned to her duties as a radio operator in the south of England. She did not see her husband for many months. She immigrated to Canada as a British War Bride on May 5, 1946. She was met in Brandon, Manitoba by Fred in a raging spring snowstorm. What a warm welcome to Canada. Pam had grown up in and around London, England, accustomed to electricity, running water and other comforts of home. She had never seen a farm never mind resided on one. Silence and wide open spaces must have been overwhelming. They had three children: Sharon, Alan and David. Pamela passed away in Frobisher on September 3, 1985 and is buried there. WHITTLES, William Bruce PEACETIME William was born on May 25, 1943 at North Battleford, Saskatchewan to Raymond and Mary Whittles. He was raised in the Bjelde Creek district. He enlisted in the Army with the Royal Canadian Engineers in December 1960. He served in Chilliwack, Yukon and at the Dokhobor uprising at the Agaissy Prison. In 1961 he was a part of the force to build a bridge across the Francis River. Bruce and his wife Gladys had two children, Terry who passed away in 1981 and Brenda. Bruce farmed for twenty years before taking fulltime employment with the City of North Battleford. He has been a member of the Battleford Legion Branch 9 since 1976. WIDDOP, Herbert Joseph “Bert” WWII Herbert was brought up on a farm near Etzikom, Alberta. Bert was always interested in amateur video and built his own radio equipment and still talks to people around the world. In 1939, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and became a NCO instructor teaching radio to wireless air gunners until 1942. Then, he went to the East Coast remustering to aircrew as pilot trainee. After his marriage to Ruth Deyell in May 1944, they were posted to Yorkton, then to Dauphin, Manitoba for a service flying course where Bert graduated as Flight-Sergeant Pilot. As the Second World War was coming to an end he was released to the Civil Air Reserve. He went back to Etzikom to farm in 1945. Bert was then hired by Trans Canada Airlines as a radio and electrical mechanic. He transferred to Calgary, bought a house and adopted a baby boy, Bill and a year later a baby girl, Janice. He retired in 1983 having worked for the air-line for 36 years.
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