LEST WE FORGET 57 ADDY, David WWI David was born on July 29, 1894, in Keighley, Yorkshire, England. His parents, David and Elizabeth (Lucas) Addy, and their family of six children immigrated to the Longwood district in the Qu’Appelle Valley near Tantallon in 1905 to take up farming. David was the youngest child and the only boy in the family. He enlisted in the Army with the 217th Battalion on November 20, 1915, in Rocanville, SK and left Halifax aboard the Olympic on June 2, 1917, to serve in France. He received a Good Conduct Badge on December 10, 1917. Private Addy was wounded on August 28, 1918, at Arras, with a gunshot wound to the left leg. He was hospitalized and the leg was amputated on February 15, 1919. He was discharged on September 19, 1919, as “medically unfit”. David returned to the Tantallon area. His younger sister, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Addy, was a charter member of The Rocanville Ladies Auxiliary in 1927. David was a charter member of the Rocanville Great War Veterans Association (1919) and served as first secretary-treasurer. David married Laura Ethel Gawley on January 21, 1929, in Tranquille, BC. David died on January 21, 1969, at the age of 74 and is buried at Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery. ALLAN, Noble Ernest WWI Noble was born on June 4, 1886, in Hastings County, Ontario to John and Elizabeth (McConaghy) Allan. He was from a large family of siblings and halfsiblings. His father died when he was nine years old, and Noble and his mother came west where he worked as a farm labourer in the Tantallon area. Noble enlisted in the Army with the 217th Battalion in Rocanville on July 25, 1916. He sailed aboard the Olympic to England on July 31, 1917, and spent four-and-a-half months in France, 29 months in England, and seven months in Canada. He was assigned to the 28th Battalion in France from May 1 to September 19, 1918. In early September 1918, he was exposed to gas shell poisoning (sulfur mustard), and he suffered with contact blistering on both hips and lumbar region. Gas exposure burns required weeks of recovery in hospital and Private Allan was hospitalized at Boulogne during October 1918. He was in convalescent hospitals in England until he sailed home on January 19, 1919. He was entitled to wear one Gold Casualty Stripe and two blue service chevrons. He was honourably discharged, due to sickness, on April 25, 1919, in Regina. Noble married Margaret McKay in 1919 and they lived in Rocanville with his mother. Their oldest son was born in 1921. Noble joined the Rocanville Royal Canadian Legion Branch on December 10, 1930. The family moved to the St. Catharines area in Toronto and had four more children. Noble Allan died on December 22, 1963, and is buried at Victoria Lawn Cemetery in St. Catharines.
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