137 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca McBRIDE, William Robert WWII William was born in Deloraine, Manitoba in 1926. His family moved to Semans, Saskatchewan in 1935. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force R284729 as a Sergeant (Flight Engineer) and served in Canada during World War II. He was discharged in 1945. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1950 with a Professional Engineer degree. He married in 1951 and had three children. He practiced in Swift Current, SK; Calgary, AB; Kamloops, Vancouver and Kelowna, BC. He was a member of the Vancouver Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA 85) and a founding member of the Kelowna EAA 433. He built and flew a Jodel D9. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Semans Branch 108 before he passed away in 1974. McCAULEY, Harold WWI &WWII Harold came from Neepawa, Manitoba with his parents to Edmonton, Alberta in 1912. In World War I, he joined the Navy at eighteen and served in the North Atlantic and the North Sea. Upon discharge at the end of the war, he took a Soldier Settlement farm east of Millet, Alberta. When World War II broke out, he joined the Army in 1940 with the rank of Corporal. He was stationed at Ucluelet and Port Alberni, British Columbia and at a prisoner of war camp in Lethbridge, Alberta. McCLAIN, Harold Calven WWI Harold was born in Carman, Manitoba, on December 1, 1896. His parents, Thomas Charles and Margaret McClain, moved to Glenside, Saskatchewan. Harold’s address when he enlisted in the Army in Regina on June 18, 1918 was Broderick, where he farmed.While in England with the 1st Saskatchewan Depot Battalion, Harold contracted a severe case of influenza. He was hospitalized for almost seventy days with a high fever. In view of his long, debilitating illness, his doctors recommended that he be invalided back to Canada for further medical treatment. He was discharged in Regina on June 20, 1919 and passed away four months later on October 16, 1919. He is buried in the Outlook Cemetery.
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