The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 409 WIGNES, Norman Peter WWII Norman was born in Plunkett, Saskatchewan on March 3, 1918. He enlisted in 1942 with the Rocky Mountain Rangers and trained in Banff, Alberta. He served at Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands and was later re-assigned to the Calgary Highlanders, serving in England, France, Holland and Belgium. After being wounded twice during his time of service, he served six more months in the Provost Corps in Germany at the end of the war until his discharge in 1946. Norman became a carpenter upon returning home and lived in the Glynfield, SK area. He raised four children with his wife, Beryl McCallum, and began his life’s work of carpentry in Saskatoon, SK. He was a member of RCL Saskatoon TVS #78. Norman died on January 16, 2007. WILEY, James Wilson “Jim” WWII Jim was born in 1919, the only son of Fredrick and Jessie Wiley from Plunkett, SK. He attended school in Viscount as his parents had moved there to operate the power plant. Jim earned his private pilot’s license in 1937 and married Nadine at Arden, Ontario. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a fighter pilot with No. 1 Squadron, RAF. He died when his Typhoon was shot down over the Cherbourg peninsula during a cross-Channel sweep on November 25, 1943. Jim is buried in the old Cherbourg Communal Cemetery in Manche, France. There is a geo-memorial: Wiley Bay on the west shore of Reindeer Lake, at (64E10) 57◦ 36 ◦ 102◦41 ◦. His sister, Reta, claimed that a mountain “southwest of Lake Hagen and Turnstone Glacier in the Northwest Territories” was also named in Wiley’s honour. Mount Wiley is in Sirmilik National Park on Herschel Island, Nunavut (340D10). WILKIE, Alfred J. “Fritz” WWII Fritz was born in Viscount, Saskatchewan and he worked on the home farm growing up. He joined the Army and served in World War II. Fritz had one daughter with his wife, Mary Kucher, and they made their first home at the Kerr Block in Viscount before moving to Humboldt where Fritz worked at Humboldt Flour Mills for years.
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