North Battleford remembers
For Don Beggs, Remembrance Day is a time to gather with old friends and pay tribute to the ones who didn’t make it home.
The 93-year-old was one of the hundreds who packed tightly into John Paul II Collegiate Sunday for local Remembrance Day ceremonies, which, in 2018, mark a century since the signing of the armistice that ended the Great War.
Beggs, a Second World War veteran from Wilkie, served as a telegrapher in the navy from late 1942 to 1945. During the moment of silence, he said he always himself to rehash old memories of “three or four school chums that lost their lives in the war.”
“They were always good friends,” he said.