LEST WE FORGET 217 MAXWELL, Donald Henry WWI Donald Henry Maxwell indicated that his address was Conquest when he enlisted in Moose Jaw on April 4, 1916, at the age of 35. After a medical examination, he was declared fit for service. He trained at Camp Hughes. Previous to that, he served four years with the Queen’s Own Rifles in Toronto. At the time of enlistment, he was working as a farmer near Conquest. He was born in Lakeport, Ontario on September 11, 1880. He came to Conquest in 1910. His next of kin was his mother Lavinia (Dougherty) Maxwell of Lakeport. He embarked from Halifax aboard the SS Justica on June 25, 1917. Serving with the 28th Battalion, he trained as a machine gunner in England before being deployed to France on February 28, 1918 with the 19th Battalion, known as the Argylls. The 19th had earned an enviable reputation throughout the course of the war. For three months, beginning near the end of March 1918, the battalion formed a holding line against German raids while carrying out aggressive excursions in the Neuville Vitasse sector. Because Donald had suffered from poor vision (hypermetropia) since his childhood, he was assigned to the Army Medical Centre during this period. His service record indicates that he returned to Canada in May 1919 and was discharged at the age of 38 years, 10 months in Regina on June 2, 1919. On his discharge papers his proposed residence was Conquest. He married Rebecca Pritchard and they had a daughter Elizabeth. Donald Henry Maxwell died on November 19, 1962 in Calgary and is buried in the Burnsland Cemetery. MAXWELL, Gordon Sinclair WWII Gordon was born in Drinkwater, Saskatchewan, in 1923. He served with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles between 1943 and 1945. He served as a Sergeant in England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. He was in the Juno Beach landing on June 6, 1944, and the Battles at Carpiquet. He was the only one from his Platoon who landed on D-Day to reach the end of the war without being injured or killed. He returned to the battlefields on the 40th, 45th and 50th Anniversaries. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 2 for sixty years. Gordon passed away in 2007.
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