LEST WE FORGET 249 REID, Gordon Albert WWII Gordon was born in Canwood, Saskatchewan, in 1924. He joined the Cameron Highlands at the age of nineteen and took his training in Yarmouth, NS, and Borden, ON. He was sent to Holland as a stretcher bearer until the end of the war. Gordon passed away in 1987. REMOLE, Douglas William WWII Douglas William Remole’s parents, Roy Halverson Remole and Minnie Catherine Remole, were married in Outlook, Saskatchewan. They came from Norway to Bounty, Saskatchewan where they set up a homestead in 1911. The couple moved to Vanscoy in 1928 and in 1937 to Carstairs, Alberta. Their son Douglas William attended Vanscoy School for grades 1 to 6 and Carstairs for Grades 7 to 10. Douglas, age 19, identified Vanscoy as his home address when he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force on October 15, 1942 in Calgary. He was a truck driver and a student at the time. He listed hockey, swimming and hunting as his favourite pastimes. He had served 494 days, including 117 days overseas with Lincolnshire Squadron 630 of the RAF, when he was killed in a tragic accident. In total darkness on the night of February 20, 1944, Rear Gunner Remole and the crew of a four-engine Lancaster III bomber took off at 23:43 hours from the RAF airfield at East Kirkley. The aircraft, which was carrying 4,000 pounds of bombs, crashed 200 yards from the airfield and was completely destroyed by the resulting explosion. All six crewmembers were killed. An inquiry determined that pilot inexperience may have been the cause of the accident. Rev. Norris, a Canadian chaplain, conducted a full-service funeral for Douglas William Remole on February 24, 1944. He was laid to rest at the Stonefell Cemetery in Harrowgate. His mother received her son’s Memorial Cross, Operational Wings and Certificate from Chief of Air Staff W. A. Dicks on August 22, 1946. Douglas William Remole’s brother, Roy Gordon Remole, served as a RCAF flight instructor in England during World War II.
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