The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 371 SCOTT, Francis Stewart WWII Francis was born in Brooking, Saskatchewan on August 21, 1924. He enlisted in the Air Force on September 23, 1943 and served with the Air Force Ground Crew (motor transport) and served in Canada, England and Germany. He was an Ambulance Driver at Skipton-on-Swale with No 6 Bomber Group. When war ended, he went to Germany for cleanup operations. He was discharged in 1946. SEVERIGHT, Percy WWII Percy was born in June 1912 on the Fishing Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan to John and Violet Severight. He was enrolled into the No. 12A District Depot C.A. The Canadian Army in Saskatoon on August 6, 1941, at the age of thirty. He served in Canada, the United Kingdom, the Central Mediterranean area and Continental Europe. He was discharged on February 21, 1946. He left behind wife Marie, two sons Michael and William and two daughters Mary Rose and Elizabeth Severight. When he returned he resumed farming, hunting and trapping. He was elected Chief of his community on the Fishing Lake First Nation. He was a very spiritual person and very humble to his people. The people made a memorial in April 2013 by calling their Community Hall The Percy Severight Memorial Hall. Percy passed away quietly in his home in March 1985. He was 73 years old. SMITH, John Clifford WWI John was born in Wabigoon, Ontario on August 25, 1898. He moved with his parents John and Minnie to Broderick, Saskatchewan. He was an 18year-old student when he enlisted in the Army with the 251st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on January 29, 1917 in Winnipeg. His is an unhappy story. Three months to the day after he enlisted, John Clifford Smith died at 7:10 pm of double pneumonia in St. Boniface Hospital. He is buried in the Outlook Cemetery.
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