LEST WE FORGET 109 BROWNLEE, George Albert WWI George was born on July 1, 1887, in Bathurst, Lanark, Ontario to parents David and Elizabeth (Lindsay) Brownlee. He had two brothers and one sister. George excelled at most sports and was on the Rocanville 1912 hockey team. He enlisted in the Army on March 1, 1916, in Moosomin with the 217th Battalion. He sailed on the Olympic on June 2, 1917, and was hospitalized with mumps shortly after arrival. He served with the 1st CMR and was sent to France on February 28, 1918, with the 42nd Battalion. He was awarded a Good Conduct Badge on March 12, 1918, just before being hospitalized suffering from shell gas from April 12 to May 20, 1918. He received a gunshot wound to the left hand on September 9, 1918. George returned to Canada aboard the Baltic and was discharged on March 25, 1919. Shortly after returning to Rocanville, he was a member of the winning 1919 curling team in Rocanville. After the war, George ran the livery barn in Rocanville. He married Victoria Chilton and had two daughters, Georgina and Maxine. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion and the I.O.O.F. in Rocanville. Later, George and Victoria moved to Winnipeg. George passed away on May 11, 1964, and is buried at “Thomson in the Park” Cemetery in Winnipeg. BRYAN, Winston Mark PEACETIME Winston was born in Gore Bay, Ontario, in 1942. He joined the Navy and served on the Algonquin and Cornwallis in the British Isles, the Baltic, Canada and the Caribbean. He passed away in 2009 and had been a member of the Army, Navy and Vets Legion in Regina for three years. BRUCE, Douglas Earle WWI Douglas was born in Thessalon, Ontario, in 1889 and was educated in Angus. His parents came to Indian Head when he was a young man. He worked for his uncle, William Bruce of Lewvan, Saskatchewan, who was engaged in building roads and Douglas took responsibility for managing his farm. He enlisted in the Princess Patricia Light Infantry in 1916 and served in the trenches in France for seventeen months and was wounded at Ypres and spent the remainder of his service in hospital in England. He was discharged in November 1918 and married Lela Long in August 1929, and they had one child, Vivian. He bought grain for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool for twenty years in Bechard, Saskatchewan, and was active in the community and served on the local school board for eight years. He retired at age 55 and lived in Regina until his death in 1968 at age 78
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