Sergeant Bill

Billy was a pet of five year old Daisy Curwain, daughter of a jeweller in Broadview, Saskatchewan.
Enlisted at Broadview with the Fighting Fifth Battalion, Western Cavalry volunteers on August 19, 1914.
Went by train to Valcartier, Quebec and by S. S. Lapland to England.
Entered the trenches near Armentiers.
Gassed during Seconded Battle of Ypres. Wounded by Shrapnel at Festhubert. Suffered from shell shock and trench feet.
Survived war which ended at 11:30, November 11, 1918.
He returned to England in 1919, Sailed for home, and arrived in Regina by train on April 24, 1919.
Date of death is uncertain. He was mounted and placed in the Legislative Library where he remained for many years. After a stay in the Plains Museum, Regina, he returned to the Broadview Museum in 1980.