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Bienfait Civic Cemetery
RM of Coalfields #4
NW -19-2-6 W2

Headstone Pictures below

If you have any more info, pictures etc of these men
please send them on to be included here.

  
William Nicholas Drozdowich 
born- Apr 15, 1915
died- May 30, 1969 , age 53
Sapper, RCE

Sgt. Peter Haysom Saville
b- Sept 3, 1869, St. Marys, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England
d- Mar 17, 1955, age 86
113th Batt. Infantry
When he enlisted in Lethbridge, on Nov 22, 1915
 his wife lived at 1605 3rd Ave. N, Lethbridge AB
Occupation- Moulder
He married Mary Wetherall, bet Jan-Mar 1905 in Thirsk

Roy George Smyth
born- 1924
died- Feb 5, 1947, age 21
Canadian Army

  
Ernest Edward Horne,
born- Aug 1, 1892,
in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, England
died- Oct 16, 1955
6th Batt. Infantry 
Dec 23, 1914 he enlisted in Winnipeg MB, shown as a farmer
His mother Mrs. Caroline Horne, next of kin,
 living at East Banbury Oxfordshire, England.
Interesting enough there is a man listed on the
Burnaby BC Roll of honour with the same name, same man?
It appears his wife Winnifred died in 1932 in Winnipeg
there are 3 more Horne graves here,
Ethel Gertrude Horne, his daughter, is one, age 1 yr, 8 mo,
who tragically died by falling into a container of boiling water.

 
Pte. Arthur Nelson
born- Sept 1858 in England
died- Jan 6, 1936, age 77
buried May 17, 1936
Service in 91st Brigade
Riel Rebellion
He was a member of the Bienfait Legion,
and was declared the oldest Legionnaire in Saskatchewan,
just prior to his death.
1911 census shows him as a Machine Agent in Bienfait,
living as a lodger with Valentine Doerr.
On my Bienfait ads page Arthur Nelson
was an Insurance agent, and Notary
Same Arthur?  imagine so.
My grandparents moved their family to the Arthur Nelson farm
near Steelman, and would imagine this was this man's farm originally

  
P. James Henry Wray
born- Aug 4, 1901
 died- Nov 12, 1932, age 31 
Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Battalion, C.E.F.

Kazimierz Kujawa
born- 1909
died- Sept 10, 1959
British 8th Army
He married a Florence M. J. Jackson
Marriage registered bet Oct-Dec 1947,
in Plymouth District, Devon, England

John Kemp
born- Apr 28, 1880
died- Mar 13, 1966
Kings Own Scottish Borderers (K.O.S.B.)
Boer War, 1898-1902

 
John Kutlarski  
(Katlarski in History of Bienfait book)
born- 1916
died- 1941
South Saskatchewan Regiment

George Haddock
born- ca 1898
d- Sept 17, 1932, age 34
Gunner, Royal Artillery

Dan Moar,
born- 1887
died- Aug 20,1957
High Light Infantry
Dan Moar was President of the Miner's Executive
when they took a vote in Bienfait on a Peace Pact with the Operators,
only a few days, after the riot

Robert Esley Ellis,
born- Mar 23, 1883 in Elmvale ON,
 died- June 9, 1933
 reg # 736710, C.E.F.
Lived in Drumheller AB when he enlisted,
his mother Mrs. David Ellis lived in Bienfait.
His occupation is listed as a miner.

Wilbur (Wilburt?) C. Enmark,
reg# 2188570, C.E.F.
born- Oct 19, 1885, in Chicago Ill, USA,
died- Feb 8, 1963, age 76.
Lived in Bienfait when he enlisted.
His mother Mrs. Elizabeth Gilles lived in Bienfait.
Occupation shown as a Miner