Rudy signed up in the army on November 19, 1941. He was only 20 years old. He was enlisted with the British Columbia Dragoons, an army tank regiment.

John Affleck Buckham was born March 5, 1889 at The Glebe, Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland. Buckham came with his family to Canada in 1901 and first settled in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.

Keith Hanbidge (b.1921) of Kerrobert was KIA on January 8, 1945. Hanbidge’s Lancaster failed to return from a night raid on Munich.

Earl Conrad Swalm, born January 29, 1920 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan, completed his education at Merrington High School in Kindersley in 1937 before working on the family farm.

Rifleman (Regina Rifles) Herbert Hubert Hugo Hilbach (b.1915) of Kerrobert was KIA 19450422 at Groningen during the liberation of the Netherlands and is buried at Holten Canadian war cemetery, Overijssel, Netherlands.

L255 Gunner (2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery) (Nelson) Steele Allcock (b.1918) of Kerrobert died 19410720 and is buried at Brookwood military cemetery near Woking, Surrey, England.

Edward Max Ellefson, born November 8, 1923 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan, attended Prince Edward School in nearby Fairmount where he completed his education in 1940.

L9905 Private (Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps) Denys Richard Duckett (b.1922) of Kerrobert died 19430725 of wounds incurred three days earlier and is buried at Agira Canadian war cemetery, Enna, Sicily, Italy.

Howard Roy Prescott (b.1921) was KIA 19441101, the day before his 23rd birthday, at Oude Molen and is buried at Bergen op Zoom Canadian war cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

World War I veterans and enlistments from Eston, Plato, Madison, Richlea and Lacadena.

Clifford Leonard Horncastle, born September 25, 1918 at Eston, Saskatchewan, moved to Edmonton, Alberta as a child where he completed his education at Strathcona High School.

Died: Jan 14, 1945, Commemorated at Oldenzaal Roman Catholic Cemetery, Netherlands.

Luseland veterans killed in WWI and WWII.

James Joseph Zunti, born February 2, 1916 on the family farm near Luseland, Saskatchewan, completed his early education at Deer Lodge School near Luseland in 1930.

Norman MacKenzie was born in Gairloch, Scotland, July 3, 1891. He came to Salvador, Saskatchewan, where his sister and brother-in-law Christina & Alex Fowler had a homestead.

Donald Kenneth Robertson was born May 20, 1919 at Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, the only son of Kenneth and Florence Wilhelmina “Wilma” (nee Coe) Robertson, and brother of Margaret Elizabeth Laura, Doro- thy Wilhelmina, and Alex Roberta Robertson.

Barry Cocks was the fourth born of seven children in the family of David and Esther Cocks of Leader, Saskatchewan.

John Palmer (born as ‘Palamer’), born April 17, 1919 at Prelate, Saskatchewan, grew up on the family farm near Eatonia, Saskatchewan, completing his public education in 1936.

Harlan was born in Minnesota, USA, on June 29, 1918. He moved with his parents as a young boy to Smiley, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan for a year before joining the R.C.A.F.

David Arthur Webb, born January 11, 1922 at Kindersley, Saskatchewan, completed his education at Kindersley High School in 1940.