LEST WE FORGET 367 WOLFE, Seigfred WWII Seigfred was born in 1920. He enlisted with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps on December 2, 1941. He served with the 83rd Coy in Canada, England, Africa, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany until his discharge on January 31, 1946. After the war he returned home and farmed for a while before selling the farm and moving to BC. Seigfred passed away in 1969. WOOD, Foster Frederick WWI &WWII Foster Frederick Wood was born on October 17, 1892, in Bexhill on Sea, Sussex, England. His parents, Reuben Alfred and Charlotte, along with their three children, emigrated to Canada in 1913 aboard the Megantic. Foster was twenty years old at the time. The family settled in the Macrorie area where they farmed. Foster’s brother Frank Charles Wood (1894-1979) is buried in the Macrorie Cemetery. Foster Wood enlisted with the 96th Overseas Battalion (Canadian Highlanders) in Saskatoon on December 22, 1915 at the age of 23. He was assigned to the 17th Canadian Machine Gun Company in France on March 10, 1918, where he served for 14 months. The task of the 17th CMGC in 1918 was to patrol highways and sideroads in the Somme to delay the advance of the German Army. During his service he was hospitalized twice: first, for trench fever and myalgia in October 1918, and then for a severe case of blood poisoning from July to August 1919. Foster Wood was invalided back to Canada on July 12, 1919 and received his discharge in Regina on August 26, 1919. Foster also participated with the 2nd Battalion of the Non-Permanent Active Militia in World War II, from September 6, 1940 until October 26, 1942. He married Jean Bannerman in Saskatoon on December 4, 1928. The couple moved to Victoria, BC in 1965, where Jean passed away on June 8, 1974. Foster Frederick Wood passed away on August 27, 1980 and is buried in Royal Oak Burial Park.
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