The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 37 ANDERSON, James Alexander “Jim” WWII James, the youngest son of Burpee and Mary Anderson, who had homesteaded in 1885 in Longlaketon community, District of Assiniboia, NWT, two miles north of the future village of Silton, SK. He was born on August 3, 1904 in the house on the Anderson farm. At outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force police. Stationed at Manning Depot in Toronto until 1943, he was then posted to the Air Force Police section at Royal Canadian Air Force Station MacDonald at MacDonald, MB, then posted in command of the Air Force Police section at the No. 23 Elementary Flying Training School at Davidson, SK. Jim was discharged in 1945 and returned, with his family, to the Anderson farm, where he remained until his death on September 14, 1985. ANDERSON, James Hunter “Young Jim” WWII James, grandson of Burpee and Mary Anderson of Silton, SK, and son of Thomas Anderson, was born at Cymric, SK, on November 25, 1921, where his father was a grain elevator agent, and then raised on his parents’ farm near Gibbs, SK. When war began in 1939, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and trained as an aircraft navigator. As navigator and weapons control officer aboard Mosquito fighter-bombers with Royal Canadian Air Force No. 415 Squadron, he engaged in many battles over Great Britain, France, Gibraltar, Sardinia, Malta and Germany, earning the War Medal with Clasp, France and Germany Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 Star, and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. After the war, James became an engineer in advanced electronics. He passed away on February 11, 2009 in Burnaby, BC. ANDERSON, Newton Joseph NORTH-WEST REBELLION Newton was born in Kent County, New Brunswick in 1863. He and his father, Thomas Edward Anderson, went west to the village of Regina, homesteading in the community of Longlaketon, District of Assiniboia, NWT, in 1884. Thomas homesteaded two and one half miles north of the future village of Silton, SK, and Newton located two and one half miles north of Thomas. When the federal government requested civilian volunteers to assist General Middleton’s troops in stopping the Metis insurrection, Newton left his homestead and travelled to the village of Saskatoon in April 1885. He joined the militia unit at the Copland homestead encampment grounds, which was then sent as reinforcement for the Battle of Batoche. Once hostilities ceased, Newton returned to his homestead in July 1885. He passed away in 1943.
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