LEST WE FORGET 75 COLEMAN, Elwood Lincoln Joseph WWII Flight Sergeant Elwood Lincoln Joseph Coleman, born in 1918, of Flin Flon, Manitoba died on May 10, 1942, and is buried at St. Mary churchyard in Black Bourton (or Burton Abbots), Oxfordshire, England. Coleman’s Tiger Moth had a wing touch and crashed at High Dogges farm in Witney, on a flight from No. 102 Operational Training Unit. He was the son of Bruce Landis and Anna (Denninger) Coleman of Melfort. Elwood was born in Kenaston, educated in Humboldt, and was working in the mines in Flin Flon from 1938 until he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in Saskatoon in late 1940. CORNER, Roy Henry WWII Corporal Roy Henry Corner was born in 1920 in Lac Vert. He died on December 12, 1942, and is buried at Gander cemetery. He perished in a fire at the Knights of Columbus hostel in St. John’s, Newfoundland while trying to save young ladies at a dance. He was the son of Alan R. and Dorothy (Marr) Corner who arrived from West Hartlepool, Durham, England to homestead NW13-41-18W2 in 1908. Roy was educated at Old Pleasantdale and Lac Vert schools and was working as a store clerk when he enlisted in Saskatoon in 1940 to serve during World War II. CONQUERGOOD, Allan Matheson WWI Allan was born on May 28, 1872, in Kincardine, Ontario. He had two brothers, Richard and Murdock, and three sisters, Annie, Margaret and Flora. His parents were Thomas (18431933) and Flora Conquergood (1844-1927). Allan had a brief connection to Bounty, Saskatchewan where family relatives homesteaded. When he enlisted in Winnipeg on July 5, 1916, at the age of 44, Allan listed his occupations as carpenter and gasoline engineer. He had his right thumb amputated after an accident in training in Valcartier. He served as a member of the Canadian Railway Troops, 239th Battalion of the CEF in Mesopotamia (the modern-day land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq, Kuwait and Syria). His troop left Halifax on December 20, 1916 on a journey that would take them around the Cape of Good Hope, into the Persian Sea and finally to Bombay. His fascinating diary can be found in CanadianLetters.ca where he describes storms so severe that sailors had to hold tightly to handrails to avoid being swept overboard. There is an interesting account of a burial at sea. His battalion traveled inland on the Tigris River to Baghdad, passing by the fabled Garden of Eden. He was discharged on May 30, 1919, at the age of fifty. Allan died on April 7, 1957, in Winnipeg at the age of 86.
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