LEST WE FORGET 219 HARVEY, Patrick Phillip “Pat” WWII Pat was born in Fish Creek, Saskatchewan on December 3, 1917. He enlisted with the Army in 1941. After training with the Royal Canadian Engineers, he was sent to England. He served with the 14th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers and was later sent to Sicily in 1943 and then into Italy. As a D-Day Dodger, he was later sent to France in February 1945. Pat served in Northwest Europe - France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany until the end of World War II. He was discharged in October 1945 and returned to Saskatchewan to take up farming. He passed away in Wakaw, Saskatchewan on March 5, 2005. HEARN, William John “Red” WWII William was born in Central Butte, Saskatchewan on March 25, 1923 and grew up in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 and was posted to the RCAF Air Training Base in Moose Jaw as an Air Engine Mechanic. He was then posted to No. 5 Manning Depot in Lachine, Quebec then to St. Thomas, Ontario and finished his tour of duty at Boundary Bay, British Columbia until the conclusion of World War II. For his service, he received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, General Service Medal and Clasp and RCAF Medal. John took a bookkeeping course in Vancouver after the war and then decided to return to his hometown of Moose Jaw to work for the CPR Express. He moved to Weyburn, Saskatchewan in 1953 and became a sheet metal fabricator and plumber. In 1956, he married Lil Dudar and they settled and started a family in Weyburn where he still lives today. He is a 50-year Life Member of The Royal Canadian Legion Weyburn Branch 47. HAUGEN, Willard Melvin WWII Willard Melvin Haugen was born in Strongfield on August 13, 1922, to Olai Nelson and Ethyle Katie Haugen. He attended Pleasant Ridge, a one-room school near Strongfield. He was working in Loreburn as a mechanic when he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in Regina on July 30, 1941. After basic training in Canada, he arrived in the United Kingdom in November 1942 where he underwent further training and was attached to Squadron 405 of the Royal Air Force. At 20:23 hours on the night of August 17-18, 1943, a Lancaster HR 817 bomber left Gransden Lodge airfield near Cambridge with the mission to bomb Hitler’s V-2 rocket test site at Peenemunde. Apparently, the aircraft strayed too far south and was hit by enemy flak over Flensburg, Germany and crashed nearby. All aboard were killed, including Flight Sergeant Willard Melvin Haugen, age 23. He is commemorated at the Kiel War Cemetery in Germany.
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