| John Edward Tweddell World War I |
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| War Medal and Bar Born 1890 at Newcastle, England Deceased in 1961 at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan He joined the Canadian Army with the 144th Battalion out of Winnipeg, Manitoba in December 1913. After training at Virden, Manitoba he embarked overseas for England in September 1916 where he attained the rank of Corporal. In April 1917 he reverted to the rank of Private in order to procede to France with the 44th Battalion, 10th Brigade of the 4th Canadian Division. In the early morning of June 3, 1917 at the Souchez-Avion sector of the Vimy-Lens line he became one of 550 casualties suffered by the 10th Brigade during heavy fighting in a midnight to dawn battle with the 56th Division of the German Army. He was evacuated to the Canadian Military Hospital in Exeter, England on June 6, 1917. On returning to Canada he was an out patient at the Deer Lodge Hospital in Winnipeg, where he received several sessions of surgery before being discharged from the Canadian Army on October 18, 1918. Prior to his enlistment he farmed in the Lashburn area, and returned back to Lashburn in 1921. He moved to Saskatoon in 1943. |
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