The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 437 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) 57o 36’ 102o 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. WILKINSON, James WWI James joined the Army and served in World War I. He was wounded during the war. He is listed in the March 2, 1917 edition of The Viscount Sun as one of the men who had enlisted from the Viscount District.
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