LEST WE FORGET 61 ANDOW, Robert WWI Robert was born on August 2, 1895, in Lancashire, England to Edwin and Elizabeth (Eliza) (White) Andow. Robert was the tenth child of eleven in the family. The family immigrated to Canada in 1903 and settled on a farm near Fairlight, Saskatchewan. After his father’s accidental death in 1914, the family moved to the Cambridge district in Rocanville. Robert enlisted in the Army on June 29, 1917, in Brandon with the 99th Manitoba Rangers CEF and sailed to England on December 7, 1917, aboard the Megantic. He was taken on strength with the 43rd Battalion CEF on April 7, 1918, and served for four-and-a-half months in France. Private Andow received a gunshot wound to the right side and chest on August 5, 1918 (2nd Battle of Arras) and he was hospitalized from August to September 1918 in Treport, Epsom, and Cardiff convalescent hospitals. Robert sailed back to Canada on January 17, 1919, and was honourably discharged in Regina on February 8, 1919. He was allowed to wear one gold casualty stripe and two blue service chevrons for his two years of overseas service. Robert’s mother passed away in 1940. He spent the last thirty years of his life in Weyburn where he took great pride in his janitorial duties. Robert passed away on February 15, 1961, in Weyburn and is buried beside his parents in Webster Cemetery in Rocanville, SK. ARCAND, Albert WWII Albert was born on January 24, 1918, in Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan. He enlisted with the Canadian Army on June 20, 1940 and served in Canada, Britain and North West Europe until his discharge on November 28, 1945. He received the 1939-1945 Star, the France and Germany Star, the Defence Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp and the War Medal 1939-1945. Albert passed away in 1972.
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