LEST WE FORGET 375 WOODS, Richard Stevenson WWI Richard was born in 1886 in Beaconsfield, Manitoba. In 1911, he took up a homestead in Saskatchewan. He enlisted with the Canadian Army when the war broke out in 1914 in Leroy, SK. After being in and out of the trenches in France from 1915 until the first part of June 1916 in the battles of Ypres, Lance Corporal Woods was pelted by a mine blast and almost lost an arm and a leg. He recovered from his wounds and was put on patrol with the Military Police in England. He was given an Honourable Discharge in late 1917. Richard passed away in 1976. WUNDER, Warren Howard WWII Warren was born on April 28, 1919, the oldest child of Howard and Alice (Simpson) Wunder. He spent his youth on the farm in the Foam Lake area. He enlisted in the Air Force in Saskatoon in 1939 and spent five years overseas, mainly in England and nine months in North Africa in the invasion of Sicily. While serving overseas with the 402 Fighter Squadron, Warren drove trucks hauling gasoline, water, airplane parts, etc. The living quarters were just tents, moving to wherever they set up bases. He was discharged in 1945, went back to the farm, and in 1954 he married Eunice Lindgren of Langham, a teacher in the Briarmound District of Foam Lake. They grain farmed until retiring in 1979 and moving to Foam Lake. Warren passed away on April 17, 1989 at age 69 following a lengthy illness. WORK, John WWII John was born on July 29, 1920 in Orkney Isles, Scotland. The family immigrated to Canada in 1921, moving to Leroy in 1930. He enlisted with the RCA in August 1941 serving in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and the Central Mediterranean until his discharge on December 4, 1945. He received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, the 1939-1945 Star, the Italy Star and the France and Germany Star. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Leroy Branch 309 for thirty years. John passed away on March 19, 1974.
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