LEST WE FORGET 227 LYTLE, William John “Bill” WWI Bill was born on February 2, 1878, in Peterborough, Ontario to William and Frances (Watson) Lytle. The family came west to homestead near Rocanville, Saskatchewan in the Prosperity district. Mr. and Mrs. Lytle were the first married couple to come to Prosperity and they later moved into town. The family had five children, but only three survived – Billy, Joe, and Elmer. Bill married May (Mary Anne) Pain (Moosomin) and the couple were in Cochrane, Alberta in 1906 when their oldest child, Herbert Elmer, was born. Bill ran the Livery Barn in Wapella by 1911 and had four children, two boys and two girls when he enlisted in Wapella on April 5, 1916 with the 217th Overseas Battalion. He sailed from Halifax aboard the Olympic on June 2, 1917. He was assigned to the 46th Battalion to go to France on February 28, 1918. On April 5, 1918, exactly two years after enlisting, Private Lytle died of shrapnel wounds to the head at No. 13 Canadian Field Ambulance. He is buried at Roclincourt Military Cemetery, two miles north of Arras, France. He was forty years old. He is remembered on the Wapella Cenotaph. A fifth child, William, was born while Bill was serving. MALCOLM, George Lawrence WWI George was born on May 21, 1896, in Birtle, Manitoba, to George Huntley and Janet Inglis (Winter) Malcolm. George was the fourth of six children and the oldest boy. His father was born in India, son of a colonel, and he had come to Manitoba in 1885. George’s father served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1909 to 1922 and was Minister of Agriculture for two years. His mother died in childbirth in 1902 and his father later remarried. George grew up at “The Thicket” and later “The Cairn”. He attended Blenheim and Thoma Schools, south of Birtle. He went to Manitoba Agricultural School in 1913. He enlisted in Winnipeg on November 6, 1915 as a Military Service Driver (Teamster) with the No. 10 COY, 3rd Division, Engineers. He was in Shorncliffe Hospital in May 1916 with German measles and was sent to France on November 26, 1916. George was discharged on April 25, 1919. George took up farming the land in the Qu’Appelle Valley (Near Tantallon and Rocanville) that had belonged to his second cousin, Neil Malcolm, who was killed in the war. He was a successful farmer and was known for high quality Hereford cattle and for seed oats as he belonged to the Canadian Seed Growers Association. He married Alberta Grace (Birdie) Donaldson on October 12, 1961, and they resided on the valley farm until December 1977 when they moved to Rocanville. George and Birdie were very involved in the Pentecostal Church. George passed away on August 5, 1988. Both he and Birdie are buried at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Moosomin.
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