LEST WE FORGET 239 MILMINE, Jack M. WWII Jack was born in Pelly but moved to Kipling, at the age of ten, where his father was a bank manager. He died in a training accident on July 1, 1941 and is buried at St. David Churchyard, Hawarden Flintshire, Wales. He was the son of James and Ethel Mae Milmine. Memorial: Milmine Lake, north of Uranium City. MOLLTER, John WWII John was born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan in 1909. He enlisted in World War II with the Canadian Army. He received the 1939-1945 Star, the France and Germany Star, the Defence Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, the War Medal 1939-1945 and the RCASC KC Collar Badge. John passed away in 1970. MINCHIN, James LaFayette WWI James LaFayette Minchin was born in Glanford, Ontario on May 15, 1879, one of eight children of Richard and Rachel (Gibson) Minchin. He was raised by his widowed mother, Mrs. Rachel Gibson. His father Richard Minchin died in 1903. He came west in 1906 as a homesteader, working with oxen, then horses. James was working as a farmer in the Conquest area when he enlisted in Moose Jaw on July 12, 1915, at the age of 36. He crossed the Atlantic to England, departing on August 15, 1916. As a member of the 50th Battalion, he saw action in France for a period of 25 months beginning December 14, 1916. He suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg and shoulder on May 10, 1917 at Vimy Ridge and was gassed on June 23, 1917. The result was that he was hospitalized twice. He also suffered from myalgia which, according to his service record, was “much aggravated” by his service in France. Private Minchin arrived back in Canada aboard the Empress of Britain on February 25, 1919. He is identified in the 1921 Census as single, age 42, working as a self-employed carpenter and living in the household of his brother Joseph and his wife and two children.
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