The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 39 ANDERSON, Renwick William Hunter “Rennie” WWI Renwick was born on June 11, 1893 in a log and mud house, the eldest son of Burpee and Mary Anderson, who homesteaded in 1885 in Longlaketon community, District of Assiniboia, NWT, two miles north of the future village of Silton, SK. At outbreak of war in Europe, he left university studies in Saskatoon at Christmas of 1914, and enlisted in the Army with the 46th Battalion on February 2, 1915. He was shipped to England for training on Salisbury Plain; he was then transferred to the 10th Battalion in late 1915 and sent to the front in France. While leading his platoon in crossing Canal du Nord for the assault on Cambrai, he was shot to death by a sniper on September 27, 1918. Renwick is buried at Haynecourt, France. ANDERSON, Thomas Edward “Tom” WWI Thomas, the second eldest son of Burpee and Mary Anderson, who homesteaded in 1885 in Longlaketon community, District of Assiniboia, NWT, two miles north of the future village of Silton, SK, was born on December 10, 1894 in the sod house of his grandparents, who homesteaded in Llewellyn community, six miles northeast of the village of Saskatoon, District of Saskatchewan, NWT. Thomas enlisted in the Army with the 46th Battalion in early 1917; however, the development of a hernia prevented him from being posted overseas. He was retained on active duty, posted to the Home Guard, with duties including guarding war prisoners, and promoted to Corporal in early 1918. Thomas died on May 22, 1972 in Pointe Claire, Quebec, from complications from Type I Diabetes. ANDERSON, William Gudmundur WWII William was born in Wynyard, Saskatchewan in 1915. He enlisted in the Army the day after his brother Carl. He served with the 110th Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery. Gunner in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. They were in the same unit until his death from T.B. in England in 1943. He is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, England. There is a lake named for him – Anderson Lake.
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