LEST WE FORGET 137 EDGAR, Joseph Walter WWII Joseph Walter Edgar, son of Joseph and Lillie May Edgar of Moose Jaw, had been the principal of the Hawarden School for four years when he became a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. Based at RAF base Bascombe Downe with Squadron 166 in Wiltshire, Flight Sergeant Joseph Edgar was one of seven crew members aboard a Lancaster Mk III bomber on a night raid on Karlsruhe, Germany. The aircraft was shot down over France, killing all aboard. He is commemorated at Avesnes-sur-Helpe Communal Cemetery near Nord, France. The inscription on his headstone reads: “More homelike seems the vast unknown since he has entered there.” EDMUNDS, Robert “Bob” WWII Robert was born on April 28, 1922 in Winfield, British Columbia. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in Edmonton on May 27, 1941 and took training in Brandon. There is a brick with Bob’s name on it at the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan “Garden of Memories”. In May 1942, the troops boarded the Polish Luxury Lines “The Battery”. They landed in Greenoch, Scotland on June 12, 1942. There they were placed in Coastal Command as opposed to Bomber Command. Eventually they were sent to India and were supposed to be there for three years. It turned out the weather was too hot for their Pegasus engines and they were sent to the Middle East. Bob spent the next couple of years at Blida near Algiers, Algeria. The boat was on the Mediterranean and Bob told the story of getting caught in a rip tide and a French man saved him. In December 1944, they were flying back to England and crash landed in Le Mans, France. Luckily, no one was hurt. Bob made it home to Eldersley, Saskatchewan about the middle of September 1945. Robert passed away on February 23, 1979. EDMISON, John Markin “Mark” WWII Mark Edmison, from the Forgan District of Saskatchewan, joined the Canadian Army in April 1943 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Mark took his basic training in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan where he was hurt in a training accident. He returned to Regina for medical treatment and later transferred to the Medical Corps in Suffield, Alberta. After a few months of medical treatment, he was stationed in Regina and subsequently discharged on medical grounds. Mark passed away on April 26, 1955.
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