LEST WE FORGET 249 McRAE, George WWII George was born in the Lawson District on August 7, 1915, to Peter and Sarah, and the family moved to the Silver Stream District in 1921, and George went to Flin Flon in 1938 to work for the Hudson Bay Mining Co. He served overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flight Lieutenant. In 1945, he married Mary Cheney in England, and they returned to Flin Flon, where George worked with the mining company for 30 years. They raised two children. George passed away on November 9, 1983. McRAE, William Gordon WWII William, son of Christopher and Margaret, was born on June 15, 1915 on a farm near Parkman, Saskatchewan. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 and graduated as a pilot and instructed trainees in Hagerville, Ontario, for two years until he was posted to Coastal Command in the Bahamas. He was then posted to Bomber Command in Burma and he and his crew flew from Canada via Gander, Newfoundland, to England and then on to India. On March 26, 1945, the Japanese shot down his plane over the Indian Ocean and his body was never recovered. His name is inscribed on the Singapore War Memorial, Malaya. McRae Bay in the north-east corner of Wolliston Lake in northern Saskatchewan is named in his honour. McRAE, Hartwell Harold WWI Hartwell was born on February 18, 1895, in Quebec, to William and Sarah, and moved with the family to Ridgedale, Saskatchewan, in 1920. He went overseas and returned to Ridgedale to file for a homestead. He married Eliza Arnold in 1929 and they raised five children. He cleared land, hauled wood and custom threshed crops. Hartwell passed away suddenly on September 6, 1978.
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