LEST WE FORGET 223 LINDSAY, John Leslie WWI John was born on December 24, 1894, in McNab Township, Renfrew, Ontario, to George Alexander and Elizabeth (Storie) Lindsay. There were eight (or nine) children in the family and John was the fourth eldest. The family came west to Austin, Manitoba and then to a farm three miles southwest of Rocanville in 1907. He attended Old Rocanville School and then farmed with his father. He enlisted in Rocanville on November 8, 1915 with the 217th Battalion. While training in Regina, John was exposed to many childhood communicable diseases and was hospitalized in Regina with diphtheria in 1915. He was in hospital in Regina for about two months with pneumonia in 1916. In March 1917, he had German measles. He had chronic hospitalizations with tonsilitis until they were finally removed in August 1917. On December 2, 1917, he sailed from Halifax aboard the Olympic and he was sent to France with the 46th Battalion on March 1, 1918. He received a Good Conduct Badge on June 1, 1918. John was wounded on September 2, 1918 with a gunshot wound to the left thigh and was hospitalized in Etaples. After returning to his unit, in November 1918, John was wounded a second time with a gunshot wound to the chest and was hospitalized at Station 11, Rouen and at Basingstoke for convalesce. On March 22, 1919, he was sent back to Canada aboard the SS Regina and was discharged in Regina on April 4, 1919. John returned home to Rocanville. He was “invalided and wounded” and never fully recovered. He operated a small farm supply business at Crandall, Manitoba for a time and also tried homesteading in the Peace River area but his ill health forced him to give both ventures up. In 1931, he returned to Rocanville and lived with his father and stepmother but after contracting pneumonia, John passed away on February 8, 1937, at the age of 43. He is buried at Webster Cemetery in Rocanville. In 1923, John took a three-month trip to the USA to visit a friend, Fred Stone, from the 46th Unit. Fred had been a farm labourer in the Kennedy area when he enlisted in the 217th and was on the same ship overseas as John. They were also both battle casualties (at the same time) at Station 11 Stationary Hospital in Rouen, France. LISTER, John WWI Private John Lister was born in Fergus, Ontario on July 25, 1876. He applied for a Homestead in Saskatchewan on August 18, 1899. He was living in Outlook on November 26, 1915, when he enlisted at the age of 39 in the 128th Overseas Battalion. He listed his next of kin as his sister, Mrs. George Binns of Guelph, Ontario. After training at Camp Hughes in Manitoba, he embarked with his battalion from Halifax on August 15, 1916. Beginning on May 26, 1917, he served with the 46th Battalion in France. He also served with the 3rd Canadian Engineers Reserve Battalion which was organized at West Sandling on January 4, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Buell. John Lister received his discharge papers in Saskatoon on May 17, 1919. John Lister died on June 5, 1959.
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