The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 59 BRADRIDGE, Albert George Henry KOREAN WAR Albert was born on October 8, 1930 in Souris, Manitoba. He served as Craftsman in Korea with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry of the Canadian Army from October 26, 1950 to September 19, 1951. He was educated in Ontario. After leaving Sunnybrook Hospital he joined the Ontario Provincial Police. He went on to become a master plumber and pipefitter, bred and showed cattle and horses. His passions were racing homing pigeons, fishing, hockey and wrestling. He married Doreen Orser and they raised two sons and four daughters. He was a Legion Member of Branch 43 in Prince George, British Columbia for 37 years, Alameda Legion Branch 267 for six years, and moved to Saskatchewan in 2009. Battling diabetes, heart failure, TA Strokes, dialysis and leg amputation, he passed away on July 27, 2015. Albert’s ashes are buried at Alameda Cemetery. BRANDON (PENROSE), Doreen WWII Doreen was born on August 25, 1924 to Charles and Margaret Anna Mackenzie in Aberdeen, Scotland. She has three sisters. When she was seventeen and a half years old, she volunteered to join the Royal Canadian Air Force on December 2 and served as a hairdresser for three and a half years. She met and married Ross Brandon while in the service on May 5, 1945. Ross left to return to Frobisher in 1945 and Doreen followed on her own in March 1946, a city girl to a strange country and to farm life. Doreen boarded the Ile De France Ship bound for Halifax, then by train to Brandon where Ross met her and together they drove to the homestead in Frobisher. Ross and Doreen had two sons, Bill and Dennis. Doreen is now ninety years old and resides in a Regina care home. She is a 69-year member of the Legion Branch 343 in Frobisher. Doreen also taught dance with the Highlanders. BRANDON, Ross WWII Ross Brandon’s father, William Lorne Brandon, left the northern part of Huron County in Ontario and went west on the Harvester Excursion in 1901, got his homestead, built a sod shack, broke the prairie soil and planted wheat on it. He accumulated enough money to go back to Winghame to bring Jessie Cole out west as his bride in 1905. To this union, Lorne, Albert, Margaret and Ross were born. Ross, the youngest, was born on July 22, 1919 in Frobisher, SK. He went to Vineberg School then went through the Youth Training Program in Regina. Ross joined the Air Force in 1941. He spent three years overseas and while there he met and married Doreen Penrose in 1945 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Upon his discharge he was a Corporal. Ross returned home in 1945 to take over the farm from his dad. Doreen followed him in 1946. They had two sons, Bill and Dennis. Ross and Doreen retired at Arcola, SK. Ross passed away on April 5, 2002 and is buried in the Arcola Cemetery. He was a member of Frobisher Legion Branch 143.
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