LEST WE FORGET 329 SCHUDWITZ, Adolph “Edward Davis” WWII Adolph Gustave Czudzewitz was the fifth child of nine born on June 12, 1905 to German farm labourer Friedrich and Wilhelmine (Fandeck). His birthplace was Neidenburg, East Prussia. In 1922, the Prussian government forced the family to change the spelling of their surname to Schudwitz. In 1924, Adolph, who was then farming near Neidenburg made the decision to move to Canada with three of his older brothers. With approximately $20 in his pocket, he set forth to begin a new life. He arrived at the Egbert Carlson farm, near Ardath (his cousin Elfrieda was married to Egbert). The three brothers worked hard on 160 acres of rented land. Adolph met and married Dorothy Wray Carey in Milden on October 11, 1933. By 1938, they had three children: Frederick, Ethel and Walter. On May 21, 1942, Adolph voluntarily joined the Canadian Army in Saskatoon. He attended basic training in Regina, while also attending a trade school at Royal Canadian Engineers, No. 12 A District Depot. He departed for England as a member of the Canadian Combined Reinforcement Unit on April 9, 1942. Upon arrival on April 19, he was assigned to the Royal Canadian Engineers Unit at Hawley. From April 10, 1942 until November 30, 1945, he served as a batman to a commissioned officer. At the end of his military service, Adolph was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and the Canadian World War II Defence Medal. After the war, Adolph returned to Ardath where he ran the barber shop/pool room and also served as town postmaster. Because there were some undercurrents of anti-German feeling following the war, Adolph changed the family surname to Davis, and his given name to Edward. Edward and Dorothy had two more children following his return home: a son Wray William and a daughter Irene May Doreen. The family moved to Saskatoon in 1952 where Ed worked at the Patricia Hotel and at a Legion Hall. He finished his working years as a Commissionaire at Royal University Hospital. After his health declined over a period of time, Edward Gustave Davis died of pneumonia at St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon on May 1, 1982. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon. SCHULL, Frederick Harold WWII The son of Frederick and Winnifred Schull of Bounty, Saskatchewan, Frederick Harold Schull was killed on June 27, 1943, when his Wellington Bomber was conducting a nighttime mine laying operation in the “jellyfish area,” thought to be off the coast of France near Brest. At the time of his death, he was a Flight Sergeant serving with Leaside Squadron No. 432. He was 23 years old. Flight Sergeant Frederick Harold Schull is commemorated at Runnymede Memorial near London England along with 20,000 men and women from various air forces, including the RCAF, who died with no known grave.
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