LEST WE FORGET 89 COLEMAN, Gordon Charles WWI Gordon Charles Coleman was born on July 8, 1883, in Troy, Ontario. His father died when Gordon was eight. He married Margaret Ann Babcock in Winnipeg on March 5, 1906. Together Gordon, Margaret and one year old son Jesse moved to Outlook area and built a sod house as a condition of setting up a homestead. Four other children were born in Outlook: Marvin (1910), Laurel (1912), Hazel (1914) and Earl (1916). The family moved into Outlook in 1914. At the age of 32 and father of five children, Gordon Coleman enlisted with the 128th Overseas Battalion in Outlook on January 3, 1916. He, like many of his colleagues in the 128th Overseas Battalion, departed for Europe from Halifax on August 15, 1916. During his service, he was attached to the 128th Battalion (16 months), the 19th Battalion (9 months) and the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (13 months). He suffered a gunshot wound to his left arm on September 3, 1918. After the Armistice, he returned to Canada and received his discharge papers, at the age of 35, on April 29, 1919. Gordon Charles Coleman became the ferry man who moved pedestrians and wagons across the South Saskatchewan River. The family lived in the Ferryman’s House on the banks to the river, just outside the western town limits of Outlook. Later the family moved to Dundas, Ontario where Gordon was a barber for the last 25 years on his life. While visiting his son Earl in California, Private Gordon Charles Coleman died suddenly in the Pomona Valley Hospital on February 14, 1958. He is buried in Troy Cemetery, Flamborough, Wentworth County, Ontario. COLLER, Alfred WWII Alfred was born in 1921. He joined the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps on October 1, 1940, at the age of 19, and was attached to the Royal 22nd Infantry Regiment 1st Canadian Division serving in England, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium and Germany and was attached to the Gurkhas for six months in Italy. He was discharged on August 31, 1945, and resided in North Portal, Saskatchewan, until he passed away in 1976.
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