LEST WE FORGET 257 LARIVIERE, Joseph Edward “Joe” WWII Joe was born in St. Paul’s Mission, Montana, USA on May 14, 1899. He then moved to Fish Creek, Saskatchewan to homestead. Joe joined the Army with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps on September 9, 1942. He was accidentally killed in a motor vehicle accident in Ottawa, Ontario on May 16, 1942. He was interred in Fish Creek. LIGGETT, David James WWII David was born in Northern Ireland in 1912. He enlisted in the Army and served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment, Service Corps in England, France, Belgium and the Netherlands during World War II. He was a Life Member of The Royal Canadian Legion Pangman Branch. David passed away in 2004. LAST, Cecil Robert WWII Cecil was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on February 6, 1919. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to SE16-11-9-W2, in the Sequin district between Creelman and Handsworth. He completed school at sixteen and went to work for a local farmer. He enrolled in the South Saskatchewan Regiment on July 6, 1940, completed training in Canada and was shipped to England in late 1941. He was part of the Dieppe Raid on August 19, 1942. Accounts vary but it is understood that Cecil was badly wounded, perhaps by a strafing German Messerschmidt just before the SSRs began to evacuate the beach. He lay there, leg blown off, bleeding out. His last words to his comrades were, “Forget about me. I’m done for. Save yourself.”
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