LEST WE FORGET 121 DOUGHTY, Robert William Gordon PEACETIME Robert was born in 1938 in Pelly, SK, but moved to Lethbridge in 1940 and attended L.C.I. High School. He joined the Armed Forces in 1955 and served in the Lord Strathcona’s and did a tour of the Middle East as a peacekeeper. He married in 1961 and has a daughter and two sons. He worked in the transportation industry after discharge with Canadian Freightways & International Transport. He was a member of Corps of Commissionaires in 1984 with the rank of R.S.M. Robert passed away in 1992 and is buried in the Field of Honour Queen’s Park Cemetery in Calgary, Alberta. DRINNAN, Ralph A. WWII Ralph was born in 1910 in Wawota, Saskatchewan. He joined the Regina Rifles on June 13, 1940. He trained at Dundurn until September 1940 when the Regiment moved to Debert, NS, for more training. On August 24, 1941, the regiment sailed for England and spent the next three years training there. He landed at Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He became Lance Corporal and later Corporal. He received the “Commander in Chief’s Certificate” in September 1944. He returned to Canada and was discharged on August 8, 1945. Ralph passed away on August 1, 2000. DRINNAN, Angus Alexander WWI Angus Alexander Drinnan was born to William and Isabella Drinnan at Panetang, Ontario, on December 3, 1865. He moved to Western Canada with his family and served with the Army Service Corp during the 1885 Rebellion. He worked at different jobs (cowboy, CPR brakeman) until he saved enough money to attend Trinity Medical College in Toronto where he graduated with a medical degree. He did post-graduate studies in obstetrics at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He met and married his wife, Sara Aitken, who was a nurse in the infirmary, on May 31, 1910. He practiced in Outlook, SK, for 25 years, interrupting his practice when he joined the military in Winnipeg on February 4, 1916. Dr. Drinnan served in France with the 10th Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps where he received a Military Cross. He returned to Outlook after the war. Following retirement in 1935, he and Sara relocated to Panoka, Alberta, to be near their sons, Niesu Angus and William Nesto. Dr. Drinnan passed away on January 29, 1952 in Rimbey, Alberta. He is buried beside Sara, who died in 1954.
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