The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 377 WILKINSON, John Willis WWI John was born in Lumsden, Saskatchewan on January 2, 1888. He enlisted in the Army from Lumsden, SK where he was a clerk on December 6, 1915. He was sent to England during the First World War arriving on May 8, 1916. From there he was sent to France on June 6, 1916. In October of that year he was hospitalized for shell shock. He spent some time with the 7th Res. Battalion before returning to the front in February 1917. On September 29, 1917 he was killed at Mericourt, France and is buried in the Beehive Cemetery in Willerval, France. WILSON, Arthur WWII Arthur was born in Govan on October 20, 1920 to Harry and Alice (Brabiner of Leeds, England). His siblings were Kathleen and Edith Victoria. The family moved to Seamans where Arthur took two years of schooling before they moved again to Estevan until their father for a job in the Munro district living on a farm one mile north of the Collop’s. The depression was over by the outbreak of the Second World War. Arthur joined the Air Force and became a pilot and returned home uninjured. He married Ida Londry of Minnedosa and they had no children. WILSON, Frederick “Fred” WWI Fred was born in Hastings, Ontario on October 3, 1892. Having spent his early years in Balgonie, he joined the Regina Rugby Club in 1913 (the year they won the Western Canada Football Championship) and over the next three years earned himself a reputation as the best kicker in the league. At 145 pounds he was too small to do any hitting but was amazingly fast when sent around the end. He also had the remarkable ability to kick the ball with either foot on the dead run. He served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force from 1917 to 1919. After the First World War, he returned to Regina, playing four great seasons from 1919 to 1922; in 1921 the Regina Rugby Club had become the Regina Roughriders.
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