LEST WE FORGET 87 BEAUCHESNE, Octave WWI Octave was born in Quebec. He married Lumina Landry after the war and went to work at a cotton factory in the United States. Their children, Leo and Emile, were born there. They moved to Zenon Park and eventually got a VLA homestead there where they raised eleven children in their large log home. BELL, James Ard Patrick WWI James was born on March 16, 1890, in Birtle, Manitoba. He was the eldest of five sons born to William and Mary (Pritchard) Bell of Welwyn, Saskatchewan. James was farming when he enlisted in the Army on December 21, 1914, in Moosomin. He had served one year with the 16th Light Horse and was with the 1st Canadian Pioneers. He was sent to France with the 15th Canadian Infantry on March 9, 1916, and was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the left knee on April 19, 1916, and was transferred to hospital in England on May 3, 1916. He returned to his unit on August 20, 1916, in France. He was hospitalized again on March 27, 1917, with influenza. On September 13, 1917, he was granted a Good Conduct Badge. He took a fourteen-day leave to the United Kingdom from March 9 to March 23, 1918. James was killed in action on September 1, 1918, while taking part in the attack against “crow’s nest” and “Chateau Wood” in the vicinity of Hendencourt. No details are available relative to the actual circumstances of his death, but the 15th Battalion assaulted and captured “The Crow’s nest” on the day he was killed in the opening phase of the Canadian attack on the DrocourtQuéant Line. James Bell is buried in the Dominion Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is remembered on both the Welwyn and Rocanville Legion cenotaphs. BEEDLE, Duane RCMP Duane was raised in Nipawin, Saskatchewan. He joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1965 and served as a Constable until leaving the service in 1970.
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