LEST WE FORGET 221 LINDSAY, George James WWI George was born on February 7, 1897, at McNab Township in Renfrew, Ontario to George Alexander and Elizabeth (Storie) Lindsay. His family moved to Manitoba in 1898. George was the fifth child in a family of eight or nine children. In 1907, the Lindsay family moved to a farm three miles southwest of Rocanville. George attended Old Rocanville School and was very sports minded. He played hockey, curled and was the catcher for the local ball team. He was helping his father farm when he enlisted on June 18, 1918 in Regina for army training with the Sask Regiment 1st Depot Battalion but he was discharged on January 9, 1919 due to demobilization and never went overseas. George married Annie Bernie Spurr of Rocanville on December 22, 1922. The couple lived on several farms in the Rocanville area and raised four daughters. In 1940, they moved to New Westminster, BC where George was employed by Pacific Veneer. They also raised their nephew, Vernon. George passed away in 1983 and Annie in 1988. LINDSAY, John Ernest WWI Ernest was born on July 24, 1891, to Allan John and Ellen (Ella) (Anderson) Lindsay in Renfrew Township, Ontario. There were nine children in the family. Three of his siblings came west to the Rocanville area around 1914 where his oldest brother, Peter, was farming. Ernest was working as a bookkeeper and had previously trained with the 97th Regiment when he enlisted on December 20, 1915 in Sudbury, Ontario. He was on the Nominal Roll for the 119th Algoma Battalion, CEF when it sailed from Halifax aboard the SS Metagama on August 8, 1916. After four months of training in England, he went to France and fought at the front with the 52nd Battalion on December 6, 1916. On August 28, 1917, he was wounded with a gunshot wound to the right arm and leg and was hospitalized at the Canadian General Hospital in Etaples. He was sent back to England to convalesce in September 1917. On February 18, 1918, his file shows that he has marked deafness in his left ear and defective hearing in his right ear as well. On January 22, 1919, Ernest was shipped back to Quebec aboard the Empress of Britain. He was allowed to wear three blue chevrons and one gold casualty stripe. While Ernest was overseas, his parents and younger sisters had moved to Moosomin so his records indicate he was on leave there until February 10, 1919 when he was officially discharged as “medically unfit due to defective hearing caused by service”. Ernest was farming in Pleasantdale by the 1921 census and in his own home. For much of his life, he lived on his farm near his brother, Albert, and his family. Ernest later retired to the west coast to join some of his siblings and their families. Ernest died on November 25, 1978, in Victoria, BC, at the age of 87. His ashes were interred with his brother, Albert, in Pleasantdale, Saskatchewan.
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