LEST WE FORGET 143 DALGLEISH, Thomas Miller WWI Thomas was born on May 5, 1891, in Wapella, Saskatchewan to William and Isbella (Miller) Dalgleish. His parents homesteaded near Wapella (between the years of 1891 and 1915). They had three boys and three girls; all three boys enlisted in World War I. Tom worked at the CPR water tank/pumphouse in Wapella before the war. He was working as an engineer when he enlisted in the Army at Camp Sewell on August 26, 1915, and his enlistment form states he had red hair. On arrival in Shorncliffe, England on September 24, 1915, he was assigned to the Canadian Army Service Corps Transport Division #1. He was hospitalized with influenza and pleuritis between December 1915 and January 1916 while training in England. He was transferred to the 2nd Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles before leaving for France on February 20, 1916. Driver Dalgleish was recommended for a Military Medal by the 43rd Battery (4th Australian Division): “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On October 16, 1917, when in charge of a team sent with engineering material to his battery at TOKIO (east of YPRES), the heavy hostile barrage killed several of the horses, overturning and smashing the wagon. Driver T. Dalgleish, in spite of the continuous heavy fire, improved a sledge from cupolas and succeeded in delivering all the material at the gun position.” On April 20, 1918, he was awarded a Good Conduct Badge; on September 7, 1918, he was made Lance Corporal and promoted to Corporal on October 19, 1918. On November 6, 1918, five days before Armistice, “while advancing behind the barrage toward Hensies, about 8:30 am with a Company Headquarters Party, Corporal Dalgleish was instantly killed by shell fire”. He is buried in the Quievrain Communal Cemetery, 7 ½ miles NE of Valenciennes, France. He was posthumously awarded a Military Medal on July 3, 1919, and was published in the London Gazette #312227 on March 11, 1919. His medals and Memorial Cross were sent to his parents in Victoria, BC. Corporal Dalgleish is remembered on the Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial. DASHNEY, Robert Neil WWII Robert was born on April 12, 1911, in Vars, Ontario and moved with his parents to Rosetown, Saskatchewan in 1918. He enlisted in the Canadian Army in the spring of 1942 and served with the Queen’s Own Rifles and Fort Garry Horse Regiments and was sent overseas. On his birthday in 1943 he was severely wounded in Holland and was discharged. After the war, he farmed in the Newburn District north of Sheho. Robert passed away on May 31, 1990.
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