LEST WE FORGET 83 BARTRAM, Howard WWII Howard was born in 1925 in Regina, Saskatchewan He enlisted with the Army in 1943 and did his basic training in Nova Scotia. He was then shipped to Alder Shot, England for more training and then landed in Kelly, France for the second Invasion of Dieppe. He spent some of the last years of the war being a driver of a Jeep for a Colonel of the Army. After V-Day he spent a year in occupied Germany. After the war he was very active in community affairs and the Lions Club. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Balcarres Branch 84 for forty years. Howard passed away on January 19, 2008. BASTIEN, James Rocan “Jim” WWI James was born on February 25, 1868, a twin brother died in infancy, in Norway House, Manitoba to Auguste Henty Rocan Bastien and Clara Crate. The family later settled in Rocanville, Saskatchewan. The town was named after the family. James had previously served with the Moose Mountain Scouts for four months during the 1885 Rebellion. In 1901, James and his wife Sarah and four-year-old son Francis James Harrison were living in Yale-Caribou, BC where Jim was Section Engineer. He also worked as a CPR train engineer in Moose Jaw where his young son was buried in 1903. He enlisted in the Army on October 4, 1914, at Camp Hughes, lying about his age by four years. He listed his occupation as machinist and engineer. He sailed from Halifax aboard the Lapland on October 22, 1915. He was sent to France with the 44th Battalion on August 11, 1916. He was hospitalized on a number of occasions for a hernia, bronchitis, gunshot wound to the right shoulder, and myalgia. Jim was discharged on April 25, 1919, at the age of 51. He moved to North Tonawanda, New York and married Alice Rose LaJoie and had three children. Jim passed away on October 11, 1934. BASTIEN, Arthur Rocan WWI Arthur was born on October 17, 1877, in South Battleford, Saskatchewan to Auguste Henry Rocan and Clara (Crate) Bastien. His father came west with the Hudson Bay Company and eventually settled near Rocanville. He farmed and was a locomotive engineer before enlisting in the Army in Moosomin with the 217th Saskatchewan Regiment on October 7, 1915. He left Halifax on June 2, 1917, aboard the Olympic and was taken on strength with the 19th Btn and was posted to the 15th. Arthur was hospitalized with influenza and trench fever, a highly contagious lice-borne disease marked by high fever, severe headaches, and soreness of the legs and back. He was awarded a Good Conduct Badge on October 7, 1917. At the age of 41, Arthur was serving with the 46th Battalion when he was severely wounded in action on September 29, 1918. According to the Canadian Virtual War Memorial: “This soldier was wounded by enemy machine gun fire while advancing with his company in the attack on the Canal du Nord. His wounds were immediately attended to, and he was carried out to the Regimental Aid Post and evacuated to No. 4 Canadian Station where he succumbed to his wounds.” Arthur is buried at Duisans British Cemetery in France.
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