LEST WE FORGET 261 MUNDELL, Roy Thomas WWII Roy was born in Plunkett, Saskatchewan, in 1921. He joined the Army Service Corps in 1939. Roy had moved with his family to the Pine Torch area and after war was over he lived in White Fox and operated a garage. Roy and his wife, Doris, moved to Calgary, Alberta. He passed away on May 30, 2004. MYLLYMAKI, Andrew WWI Andrew was born on December 6, 1889, in Whitefish, Ontario to Finnish parents Mikhael (Mikki) and Anna (Tuokko) Myllymaki. He was the youngest of five children (his two older brothers and two sisters were born in Finland). The family came to Canada in 1882 and moved to a homestead at New Finland in 1892 (SE 24-17-1-2). His father bought the first steam engine and threshing machine in the community. Andrew attended high school in Wapella and Moosomin and he taught school at New Finland for a short time. He attended the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He trained for the Field Company Canadian Engineers for three years and studied steam engineering. Andrew enlisted at Valcartier, Quebec on September 23, 1914 and sailed on October 3, 1914 with the first huge Canadian group of volunteers to go overseas. It consisted of 32,000 soldiers and a convoy of over 30 ocean liners. It was the largest convoy to ever cross the Atlantic. After training at Salisbury Plain, Andrew was sent to France on June 1, 1915 with the 1st Divisional Engineers. He had a nine-day leave to England on June 8, 1916. On September 9, 1916, he “was one of a party employed on the construction of a support trench situated thirty yards behind the front line north of Pozieres, when he was hit in the stomach by a bullet. A comrade carried him to a shell hole and after fixing him up as well as possible, went for help, but on returning with a carrying party found that Sapper Myllymaki had died”. He is buried at Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. He is remembered on the Rocanville and Wapella Cenotaphs. This was sent to his father: “Spr Myllymaki had been employed on the construction of a support trench situated 30 yards behind our front lines, and his conduct while under wire was irreproachable, he being considered one of the best sappers in the company and his death sincerely regretted by his officers and comrades.”
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