| Flt. Lt. Ian William Tweddell World War II Biography January 12, 1917 to June 19, 1975 |
| He worked as a civil engineer and land surveyor, first with a private surveying firm in Saskatoon, then, after earning his Master's degree in community planning, with the City of Saskatoon, and from 1957 until his death in 1975, as a professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. Ian and Doris raised a family of four children -- Linda, Gordon (named for his pilot, Gordon Calder of Nipawin, who did not survive their crash), Rob and Laurel. In the first twenty or so years after the war, Ian, like so many of his contemporaries, tried to push the war years and experiences into the background and to get on with the business of making a lifing and raising a family. Finally, in the few years prior to his death, he and some other former "Kriegies" were able to look back on their war experiences with a certain nostalgia for the friendships formed in the prison camps. Ian adn Doris worked helping to plan an Air Force POW reunion that marked the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the war. For all of them, this was an opportunity to lay to rest many of the ghosts of their past -- friends who died too yount, horrors seen and felt, all sorts of pains and fears that had been buried for years. |
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