LEST WE FORGET 217 LINCOLN, William Joseph WWI William was born in England in 1883 and came to Canada about 1900 and homesteaded in the Fernly district, northwest of the town of Wawota, Saskatchewan. He joined the Army and fought with the 28th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment). He was killed in action in France on April 7, 1916. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victoria Medal. Having no known grave, his name is inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium. LINDAL, Skuli Gudbrundur WWI Skuli was born on September 30, 1893, in Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, to Icelandic parents Jacob H. Lindal and Anna Hannesdottir. Jacob Sr. had changed his family’s surname from Hansson when he emigrated from Iceland in 1887. Skuli was the seventh child in a family of seven boys and five girls. The family lived in numerous places like Leslie, Wynyard, and Holar (Tantallon) in Saskatchewan. Skuli stayed with Finnur and Gudrun Jonson at Tantallon and attended Holar School. He was attending the University of Saskatchewan when he enlisted with the 223rd on April 17, 1916 in Saskatoon at the age of 22. He trained in Canada from June 1, 1916 to May 1917. He left Halifax as a Corporal with the 223rd Battalion aboard the SS Justicia on May 3, 1917. While with the 11th Reserve, he reverted to ranks and was sent to France with the 27th Battalion on September 7, 1917. On March 9, 1918, he took a fourteen-day leave in the United Kingdom and was quarantined with diphtheria for a week following his return from leave. He rejoined his unit in France and was killed nine days later on April 15, 1918 in the trenches east of Neuville Vitasse. Skuli Lindal is buried at Wailly Orchard Cemetery, three miles SSW of Arras, France. He is also remembered on the Memorial Gates at the U of S. LINDAL, Jacob WWI Jacob was born at Churchbridge, Saskatchewan on November 22, 1895, to Jakob and Anna (Hannesdottir) Lindal. The family emigrated from Iceland in 1887 and moved to a number of Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and Saskatchewan including Holar (Tantallon). Jacob was the 8th child born in the family of seven boys and five girls and was a student attending the Nutana College – University of Saskatoon when he enlisted on March 29, 1916 with the 196th Battalion at twenty years of age. Jacob sailed from Halifax aboard the Empress of Britain on June 18, 1916 with the 65th Overseas Battalion. He did not train long in England as he was sent to France with the 46th (Suicide) Battalion on August 10, 1916. Two months later, on October 17, 1916, Jacob was killed in action at Regina Trench where over eleven thousand Canadian soldiers perished in northern France with no known graves. He is remembered on the Vimy Memorial at Pas-de-Calais; on the War Memorial in Leslie, Saskatchewan; and on the Memorial Gates at the University of Saskatoon. His university friend, Emile Walters, dedicated a painting in remembrance of both Jacob and his brother Skuli at the Memorial Art Gallery at the university.
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