Honouring our Veterans
The Royal Canadian Legion, General Alexander Ross Branch #77 is proud to bring the Honour Our Veterans banner project to Yorkton. It is hoped to be a legacy project, ongoing and renewing, as a way to bring honour and respect to the veterans connected to Yorkton and area ‐ those who have served our country, from the past and the present ‐ and to bring an awareness of their dedication to our residents.
Showcasing our veterans through the banners, which will be displayed from the beginning of October to immediately after Remembrance Day, will be a tribute to those who should be recognized and not forgotten.
The Royal Canadian Legion |
The Royal Canadian Legion is Canada’s largest veteran support and community service organization. The General Alexander Ross Branch was founded in 1926. We currently have over 100 members and we work to make a difference in the lives of veterans and their families, provide essential services within the community, and remember the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Through our annual Poppy campaign, we are able to raise funds and make yearly donations to Air Cadets, Army Cadets, Navy League Cadets, The Health Foundation of East Central Saskatchewan, SIGN Senior Mobility, Meals on Wheels, Dundurn Military Family Resource Centre, Moose Jaw Military Family Resource Centre, Leave the Streets Behind program, Discovering the Power in Me program and other programs as needed including support for local nursing homes and retirement communities. Bursaries are awarded annually to eight high school students to financially support their post‐secondary education. We involve our local youth in Remembrance assemblies every Veterans Week and encourage their participation with our Remembrance Poster and Literary Contests. Several schools help us prepare for the Poppy campaign and Cadets and Scouts help out yearly with Tag Day. |
Veterans
Fred Acoose - WWII |
![]() ‐TheCanadianEncyclopedia.com |
Victor James Alexson - WWII, RCAF |
![]() “While exact statistics are difficult to determine, the rate of Indigenous participation in Canada's military efforts over the years has been impressive. These determined volunteers were often forced to overcome many challenges to serve in uniform, from learning a new language and adapting to cultural differences, to having to travel great distances from their remote communities just to enlist.” ‐Veterans.gc.ca |
George Oscar Arnold - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by the Arnold family |
Walter C. Austman - Korean War, United Nations PPCLI |
![]() Honoured by his loving family: the Halls, Austmans and Feists |
Russell Bischop - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by the Bischop family |
Rudolph (Rudy) Bode - WWII, Army |
![]() Rudy enlisted in World War II training in Dundurn SK. He was stationed in Vernon BC as a Gunner with the Artillery when Japan attempted to enter North America through the Aleutian Islands. As part of the joint Canadian/US forces, he went into action at Kiska Island preventing the Japanese advance. After the war, Rudy returned to Sheho SK and married Lil Feuchuk. He worked at the Yorkton Milling Company and then with the public school division until he retired. Rudy and Lil raised five children: Leonard, Dennis, Dale Desmarais, Garth and Daryl. Rudy earned his Honorary Lifetime Membership in the Royal Canadian Legion at the General Alexander Ross Branch in Yorkton where he also received a Certificate of Merit for outstanding service. |
Fred Bodnaryk - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Bodnaryk and Holowatuk families |
Steven Borys - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Borys Family |
Nicholas Bretherton - WWII, Army and RCMP |
![]() Nominated by Mathew Stringfellow |
Gordon Brown - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Lorne and Juanita Brown and family |
Ronald Bryan - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Rex and Randy Goulden |
Raymond Bucsis - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Dave Bucsis and family |
Randy Bunzenmeyer - United Nations Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Army |
![]() Honoured by his family and friends |
William Joseph Caldwell - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by His children Carmella, Judy, Francis, Elaine and Bernice |
Nick Chutskoff - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Chutskoff family |
Albert E. Cote - WWII, Army, New Brunswick Rangers |
![]() “In 1943, the Rangers were sent to Britain, where they were converted to a heavy weapons support unit, armed with machine guns and mortars in preparation for the invasion of Normandy. Present at many of the critical moments of the campaign, the Rangers participated in the Battle of the Falaise Gap, which cleared the way for the advance on Paris and the German border; the Battle of the Scheldt, which secured the vital supply lines of the port of Antwerp; and the Battle of the Reichswald, when German resistance on the west bank of the Rhine was finally broken.” ‐Matthew Douglass |
Antoine (Tony) Cote - Korean War, Royal Canadian Artillery |
![]() Honoured by the Yorkton Tribal Council |
Michael Derkach - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Derkach family |
Edmund De Wind - WWI, Canadian and British Army |
![]() (1916) and at Vimy Ridge (1917). He earned a commission in September 1917 in the British Army. As a 34‐year‐old Second Lieutenant in the 15th Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles, he was awarded the VC for deeds committed during the 1918 Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. He died on that day. |
Eric B. Draper - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by his family |
George Sletten - WWII, RCAF, 410 Squadron |
![]() Honoured by his family |
William James Smee - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Smee family |
Anthony Smysnuik - WWII, Navy |
![]() Honoured by the Smysnuik family |
John H. V. Stackhouse - WWII, NRMA Infantry |
![]() Honoured by Mike and Roy Stackhouse |
Marion Stackhouse - WWII, CWAC |
![]() Honoured by Mike and Roy Stackhouse |
George Stamatinos - WWI, Greek Army |
![]() Honoured by Gus and Louis Stamatinos and their families |
Freda P. Stevenson - WWII, British Army ATS Nursing |
![]() Honoured by the Stevenson family |
Samuel W. Stevenson - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Stevenson family |
Chub Tamblyn - WWII, Army MC |
![]() Honoured by the Tamblyn family |
Kenneth Lawrence Tate - Korean War, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Tate family |
Norman L. Taylor - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Donna and Dave Buscis |
The Unknown Soldier - All Soldiers, All Wars Everywhere |
![]() Honoured by Debbie Sapara and The Yorkton Crossing |
Courtney Ward - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by his family |
David F. Wiley - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Harold R. Wilkinson - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Harold M. Wood - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Ted and Nancy Wood and Jean and Dennis Bode |
Stanley Wrubleski - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Lozinski family |
WWI Army Veterans from the Key, Cote and Keeseekoose First Nations |
![]() Middle row: Livingstone Cote, Major Cote, Robert Brass, Archie Cote, Andrew Shingoode, Michael Cadotte, Arthur Severight; Front row: Malcolm Tourangeau, Allan Fiddler, Archie Cadotte, John Favell, William Henry Cadotte, Albert Brass, Edward Cote, Alex McDonald; |
Peter Wyatt - United Nations and NATO, Military Police |
![]() Honoured by the Wyatt family |
Robert Yates - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by Kelly and Elyse Thomas |
Joseph Yurkoski - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Joanne, Bonnie and Sharon |
Alfred M. Egilsson - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Bernie Egilsson, Kelly Egilsson and |
Joe Ewack - WWII, Army |
Honoured by the Yorkton Tribal Council |
Tom Ford - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Wayne, Brian, Dwight, Candice and Kevin, the Ford family |
Felix P. Franke - WWII, Army, Calgary Armoured Regiment |
![]() Honoured by Allan and Juliette Franke and family |
Les Frenette - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Linda Stamatinos, Larry Frenette and their families |
George D. Glass - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Wallace Goulden - WWI, Army |
![]() Honoured by Rex and Randy Goulden |
Allen C. Hippsley - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by his proud family |
Shayne M. Holwin - Canadian Forces - Royal Roads Military College |
![]() Honoured by Swade Holowatuk and family |
George Thomas Howe - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Austin E. Ingham - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by Shirley, Leslie, and Doug Ingham and families |
Emil Kimmel - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Brenda Slogoski |
Bertrand D. Kirkham - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Ernest Kitchemonia - Korean War |
![]() ‐Veterans.gc.ca |
Alexander Kreklewetz - WWII, Navy |
![]() Proudly honoured by his children and grandchildren |
Janet Agnes Love - WWII, Canadian Women's Army Corp and RCAF |
![]() Honoured by her family |
Donald Baird Low - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Hugh MacColl - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Gordon M. MacKenzie - WWII, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by James and Diane MacKenzie |
Albert M. McInnes - WWII, Army 65th Anti-Tank Battalion |
![]() Honoured by Brooke, Linda and Wayne McInnes |
Simos Michalos - WWII, Greek Navy |
![]() Honoured by Mary Stamatinos and family |
John Miller - WWII, Navy |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Sidney (Dashy) Mogor - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Allen C. Morley - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Morleys |
Ewan Morrison - WWII, Army |
![]() (RHLI). Morrison landed on Juno Beach, D‐Day + 30. He fought on the frontline as an infantry soldier and, as a trained scout, he went behind the lines to garner intelligence. Morrison fought in every battle with the RHLI, from France to Northern Germany, without an injury, something military historians have coined as “a sheer miracle”. Morrison comes from a lineage of warriors; his Uncle Ewen, his namesake, was killed in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. |
Finlay A. Morrison - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Morrison family |
W. Ron Muir - Korean War, Army PPCLI |
![]() Honoured by the Muir family |
Glen T. O'Soup - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by the Yorkton Tribal Council |
Michael Palmer - NATO, Peacetime, RCEME Army Engineering |
![]() Honoured by his family |
Mitchell G. J. Palmer - Peacetime, RCAF |
![]() Honoured by his family |
W. J. W. (Jack) Parr - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Ron and Susan Wrubell and family |
Joseph Pelly Sr. - WWII, Army |
Honoured by the Yorkton Tribal Council |
George W. Printz - WWII, Navy |
![]() Honoured by Mauri Ingham and his family |
John Henry Propp - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Bob and Deb Thompson and family |
Brigadier-General Alexander Ross - WWI and WWII, Army |
Alexander Ross was six years old when his family emmigrated from Scotland to Stilton SK. A pre‐war militia member, he served as a recruiting officer in 1914. Once in France, Ross commanded the 28th Battalion (Northwest) from 1916 to 1918. After the war, Ross returned to the law profession, being appointed District Judge of Yorkton. He was also a prominent figure in the Royal Canadian Legion, serving as a Dominion President for four years and heading the Vimy Pilgrimage of 1936. He was awarded the King George V Jubilee Medal in 1935, and the King George VI medal in 1937. Ross was Honoree Colonel of the 53 Heavy Ack Ack Regiment RCA at Yorkton from 1946 to 1952. He also served as the Honoree Colonel of the Regina Rifle Regiment. Ross is perhaps best known for his statement concerning the Battle of Vimy Ridge, made in 1967 on the 50th Anniversary of the battle: “It was Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific on parade. I thought then, and I think today, that in those few minutes I witnessed the birth of a nation.” Honoured by the General Alexander Ross Yorkton Legion Branch #77 |
James Rubletz - WWII, Army |
![]() Honoured by Connie Rubletz |
Patrick Rushowick - Afghanistan and Haiti, Combat Engineer |
![]() Honoured by the Rushowick family |
Stephen Rushowick - WWII, Royal Canadian Engineers |
![]() Honoured by the Rushowick Family |
Michael Rusnak - WWII, Navy |
![]() Honoured by Doris Rusnak and family |
Godfrey Schmidt - WWII, Army, Princess Louise Dragoon Guards |
![]() Honoured by Betty Schmidt and family |