LEST WE FORGET 193 MELBY, Palmer James WWII Palmer was with the Royal Canadian Engineers as a Sapper Mechanical Equipment Company and served in Canada and France. He was killed in action on October 11, 1944, at age 30, and is buried at Calais Canadian War Cemetery Leubringhen, France. Palmer was the son of Dahl August and Elise Mathilda Melby, who had originally come from Fredrikstad, Norway, and homesteaded south of Beaubier, SK, and later moved to a farm in Birch Hills. MENG, Viola WWII Viola was born in Saskatchewan in 1925, one of ten children born to Clarence and Elsie (McNabb) Meng of Crystal Springs. Viola joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corp and served in Canada. She married Ernest Jonas and lived in Waterloo, Ontario. They had no children. She passed away in 2000. MENG, Clarence WWI &WWII Clarence was born in Mauston, Wisconsin, USA, in 1892 and immigrated to Canada at the age of sixteen. He worked at various jobs and filed a homestead in the Waitville district. In 1915, he joined the 53rd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and was transferred to the 42nd Black Watch Highlanders, returning home in 1919. He married Elsie McNabb in 1921, and they raised a family of five girls and five boys. In 1940, Clarence joined the Canadian Army (Active) for service in World War II, and served with the 28th Veterans Guard until 1946, when he returned to farming. He passed away in 1960.
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