LEST WE FORGET 215 JUNTUNEN, William WWII Private William Juntunen was born on December 3, 1916, in Thunder Bay, Ontario. His parents were Paul and Amanda (Hammerberg) Juntunen. When he attested in Regina on March 3, 1942, his enlistment papers indicated that he was living in Strongfield and farming his own land near Loreburn. He was posted to Regina and Vernon as a private with the Regina Rifle Regiment. He was granted farm (harvest) leave from August to October 1944. His service in Canada extended from March 1942 to January 1945. He was in the UK from January 16 to March 25, 1945. Then he was posted to northwest Europe, during the Liberation of Holland, from March 26 until he was killed in action on April 9, 1945, at the age of 28. The Regina Rifles were part of a battle plan to open supply routes to the north of Arnhem in northeast Holland. The town of Deventer was captured 24 hours after the attack began. The Regina Rifles were responsible for clearing the southeastern suburbs. There were 126 fatalities, including Pte. Juntunen. His regiment was awarded the Battle Honour Deventer for their actions.William Juntunen is buried in Holten Canadian Military Cemetery where, every May 4, Dutch children place 1,396 tulips in memory of the 1,396 Canadians buried in this cemetery. KERR, Lloyd Winston WWII Lloyd was born in Wawota, Saskatchewan on August 25, 1918 but the family moved to the Torch River District in 1930. His siblings, Howard and Irwin Arthur, served in the Army and Lloyd and Ryan Elgin served in the Navy. In 1940, Lloyd joined the RCNVR in Regina and then transferred to Esquimalt, BC. On September 13, 1941, he sailed 7,000 miles on the minesweeper HMCS Malpeque via the Panama Canal to Halifax, NS where he took ASDIC training and qualified for HSD and Leading Seaman. On August 10, 1943, Lloyd was sent to the training vessel HMCS Hamilton where he demonstrated ASDIC equipment, echo sounders and seamanship. Lloyd was discharged at HMCS Cornwallis at the end of WWII. In 1949, he married Hazel Doris Fillier and they left for Torch River where he purchased land through the VLA. They had two children. Lloyd continued to farm and from 1966 to 1983, he managed the Torch River Co-Op Store. He resided in Nipawin, SK where he was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 120. Lloyd passed away in 2018. KENDALL, William BOERWAR William Kendall Jr. was born on August 20, 1879, in Cumbria, England to William and Jane Kendall. He joined the Army to serve in the Boer War at the age of twenty. Upon returning to England, he joined the 19th Hussars Cavalry Unit, serving two years in Africa before receiving his discharge in time to immigrate to Canada with his family in 1903. In 1904, William and his father and brothers filed homesteads in the Macrorie, SK area where William farmed until his passing in January 1962. He and his wife Margaret (Steele; 1874-1958) had no family.
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