LEST WE FORGET 165 HENDERSON, Alfred Elwood WWI Alfred was born in Nashwaaksis, York County, New Brunswick on July 4, 1896. His parents were Rev. John and Harriet Elizabeth (White) Henderson. Alfred moved with his mother Harriet and three siblings to Outlook in 1910 (altogether there were ten children in the family). Harriet’s husband Rev. John Henderson had died the previous year. The family joined the eldest son Byron on his homestead. Alfred was a bachelor farmer living near Conquest when he enlisted in the 105 Battalion in Saskatoon on June 21, 1917, at the age of 20. He departed for overseas service on March 18, 1918 and saw action in the trenches with the Machine Gun Corps in France. He was hospitalized for eleven days with diphtheria in June 1918. In the first two days of November 1918, he was engaged in the Battle of Valenciennes where the Canadians captured 1,800 enemy soldiers while sustaining 80 killed and 300 wounded. He was awarded the War Service Badge. Alfred Henderson returned to Canada on May 14, 1919 and was demobilized at the age of 22 on May 28 of the same year. Always up for a new adventure, George Henderson flew over his family’s 1910 homestead near Conquest on his hundredth birthday. He died at the age of 102 in Saskatoon on August 15, 1998. HINTZ, Rueben WWII Rueben was born in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, in 1921. He joined the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in 1942, taking his basic training in Shilo, Manitoba, and then transferred to Debert, Nova Scotia, serving in Canada. Rueben passed away in 1988 and had been a member of Souris Branch 60 of The Royal Canadian Legion for 35 years. HILL, Orval I. PEACETIME Orval was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan in 1935. He joined the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and served in Canada. Orval had been a member of the Fort Garry Branch 90 of The Royal Canadian Legion for 48 years when he passed away in 2006.
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