LEST WE FORGET 185 JEANNOTTE, Omer Albert WWII Omer was born to David and Lela (Bourdrie) Jeannotte at Cut Knife, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in Saskatchewan with the Westminster Regiment (Motors) and served overseas as a Private. Killed in action in Italy on September 26, 1944, Omer is interred in the Cesena War Cemetery, Cesena, Italy. Jeannotte Lake, a geomemorial in northern Saskatchewan, has been so named to perpetuate Omer’s sacrifice. JENKINS, George Edward WWI George was born on December 5, 1879 (1880?) in Grey County, Ontario. His parents were John (born in Wales) and Jane (Dunlop) Jenkins. In 1911, George was in the hospital for two months in Fort William with typhoid fever which caused impaired vision in his left eye. He came west and worked at the Lethbridge Daily Herald. He married Janet McLeod, a teacher, in Lethbridge in 1912. The couple moved to Rocanville where George was editor of “The Rocanville Record”. The couple had a daughter, Reta Eleanor, born on March 21, 1913 and they owned a house in Rocanville from 1912 to 1923. George had belonged to the Algona Rifles (96th Ontario Infantry) before coming west, so he enlisted on May 15, 1916 in Winnipeg. Upon training at Camp Hughes, he was discharged as medically unfit due to his vision. Determined to serve, George attested a second time on October 8, 1916 and was sent overseas on October 24, 1916 with the 18th Reserve aboard the Grampian. He was posted with the 203rd Battalion but was found to have such poor vision in his left eye that he was transferred to the labour pool in stenography. He was discharged on May 27, 1919 as medically unfit. He returned to Rocanville where he was owner, publisher, and editor of the paper until 1921. The couple moved to the west coast where their daughter became a nurse and married. George died on October 5, 1953 in New Westminster, BC. His wife died in 1956. Their daughter died in Port Alberni in 2014, at the age of 101.
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