The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 321 McAULEY, J. PEACETIME J. McAuley was born in Scotland on April 5, 1939. He enlisted in 1960 in the British Army for national service and served in the Royal Army Service Corps. Private McAuley left the service in 1961. He married and has been a member of Nutana Legion Branch 362. McBURNEY, Wilbert Richard WWII & PEACETIME Wilbert was born in 1914 in Gull Lake. He enlisted in 1940 with the Air Force and flew 13 missions until April 1, 1944 when the plane was hit and crashed; three members of the crew survived the crash. They were captured and found themselves prisoners of war. Wilbert was transported to Paris and spent 26 days in solitary confinement for refusing to disclose where the plane went down. Later that year, he was transferred to Luftwaffe POW Camp. On January 15, 1945, he marched for 12 days, for 240 miles to Goldberg where he was sent to a camp in Luckenwald where he was badly treated. He was released by Allied Forces in on May 8, 1945, he returned to Canada. Wilbert stayed in the military until he retired on March 5, 1965 as a Flight Officer. Wilbert passed away in 1991. McCAW, John I. W. WWII John was born in Lampman, Saskatchewan on October 21, 1911. He joined the Army on September 14, 1939 and served with the Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers in the United Kingdom and North West Europe. Corporal McCaw left the service on August 14, 1945. John married and first joined The Legion at Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan then transferred to Nutana Legion Branch 362 in 1993.
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