LEST WE FORGET 325 TURNER, C. Gordon WWII Gordon was born in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, in 1907. He joined the RCOC No. 2 Platoon-1 Coy, serving in Canada. Gordon passed away in 1999. TYACKE, John Wesley WWII Jack was born in 1914, in Broadland, Beadle Co., South Dakota and educated in Lucan, Mossdale, and Silver Park Schools. The extended Tyacke family moved to McElhanney north of Weeks during the late 1930s. Jack and his wife Ethel Mae (Enders) and sons Eugene Wesley and Merlyn John were farming in Chagoness when he enlisted in Saskatoon in 1940. Private (Saskatoon Light Infantry) John Wesley Tyacke, of Chagoness east of Pleasantdale, was killed in action on December 8, 1943, by enemy artillery fire and is buried at Moro River Canadian War Cemetery in Ortona, Chieti, Italy. He was the son of Thomas Gilbert and Lillian Mae (Lanphear) Tyacke who came from Wilbur Co., Nebraska to homestead SW5-43-17-W2 east of Silver Park in 1918. Interestingly, both of Jack’s sons served in the Canadian Armed Forces in Saskatoon in the 1960s. His sister Mildred also served in the Army during the war. TURTLE, Leonard Edger WWII Leonard was born in Melfort in 1919, educated in Fartown school and Marshall and was farming when he enlisted in Saskatoon in 1940. Flight Lieutenant (No. 124 Communications Squadron RCAF pilot) Leonard Edgar Turtle, of Marshall died on September 15, 1946 and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon. He died in the horrific crash in Estevan while ferrying lend-lease planes back to the United States. He spent the war as a flight instructor at various bases across Canada of flying No. 10 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron on the east coast. He was the son of Alfred Ernest and Kathleen Isobel (Isaac) Turtle who homesteaded NE30-50-25-W3 south of Hillmond and later moved to the Cavalier area northwest of Meota. He married Zola Maxine (Jones) in Ruddell in 1942, she and their daughter Eloise Lenore Maxine later lived in Saskatoon.
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