My neighbour across the street was Mr and Mrs Wm. House. I went over to visit and he taught me how to play chess. He carved me a crude set of chessmen that fit into a eyeglass box.
William House was born in 1883 in Monmouth, Wales. He came to the Cut Knife area in 1904 and homesteaed there. He enlisted in WWI and served in Belguim and France. Upon returning from the army in 1919 he filed on Soldier Settlement land in the Carragana District. In Nov 1920 in Winnipeg he married Elizabeth Thornby from Kent, England.
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