LEST WE FORGET 229 MALCOLM, Neil Stuart WWI Neil was born in July 1875 in Dendon, Middlesex, England, to Lawrence (Laurence) Malcolm and Frances Caroline (Stuart) Malcolm. Neil was the sixth of nine children born to the family and the youngest boy. Neil came to Canada around 1898-99 and came to Birtle, Manitoba to visit his cousin, George Huntley Malcolm, and his family. He also wanted to learn about farming and applied for a homestead in 1903. One of his married sisters, Diana Trenholm, came to live at Shellbrook, Saskatchewan in 1908. Neil had a homestead on the south side of the Qu’Appelle Valley (in the RM of Spy Hill). Neil Malcolm, of Tantallon, was mentioned in July 1908 as the best man at the Winter-Francis wedding in the Blenheim Church. He was also on the Tantallon, SK Residents’ List in the winters of 1912-13. Neil enlisted in the United Kingdom while he was back in England attending to family business. He was with the 35th Division, Ammunition Col., Royal Field Artillery. He was killed in action on November 13, 1916 at age the age of 41. He is buried at Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boiselle, France. Bombardier* Neil Malcolm is commemorated on Tantallon, Rocanville and Birtle cenotaphs and also the Blenheim Commemorative Monument at St. Alban’s Church (southwest of Birtle) which is the Anglican Church the Malcolm family attended when they farmed in the area. After his death, Neil’s second cousin, George Malcolm, took over Neil’s farm (1920) in the Qu’Appelle Valley which was east ½ of 25-17-32 W1. *The rank of Bombardier in the British Army is equivalent to the rank of Corporal. MARSHALL, Thomas WWI Thomas was born on January 4, 1896, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, to William and Jeannie (McNeill) Marshall. His parents lived at Margrie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. There were nine children in the family and six of them came to Saskatchewan as adults. Tom was the sixth child born with four sisters and four brothers. Tom and his oldest sister, Annie, came to Welwyn in 1912 to join his brothers Jack and James. The brothers worked for Mrs. Mary Campbell at Oak Hill Farm. Tom’s sister, Annie, married Joseph Moffatt. Tom was working as a farmer when he enlisted in Welwyn on July 5, 1916 with the 217th Battalion. He sailed from Halifax aboard the Olympic on June 2, 1917. Like so many others with the 217th from this area, he went to France with the 46th Battalion on November 8, 1917. Only ten days before Armistice, Private Thomas Marshall was killed in action on November 1, 1918. According to his records, he “took part with his battalion in an attack near Valenciennes on November 1, 1918. The objective had been captured and the enemy was retiring when it was found necessary to send a patrol forward. Private Marshall went forward as a machine gunner and at about 11AM, he was hit in the back by a machine gun bullet and died shortly afterwards.” He is buried at Aulnoy Communal Cemetery in Nord, France. He is remembered on the Rocanville and Welwyn cenotaphs.
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