JAV David Museum
414 Williams Ave. R0K 1G0 Killarney, MB, Canada

On December 11, 1944 Pte Harold Douglas Wasden was KIA at Groesbeek in the Nijmegen salient. He served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment. 64 years later on A...ugust 20, 2008 his great nephew Cpl Dustin Wasden was killed in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near his vehicle while on patrol. He was with 1 Combat Engineer Regiment. In 2009, the Government of Saskatchewan announced the naming a northern island, Dustin Wasden Island, in his honour. The Island is within Wasden Lake, named after his great-uncle Harold D. Wasden. See more

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