The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 315 McGREGOR, Bruce WWII Bruce was raised in Hitchcock, SK and signed up with the Reserves in the Canadian Scottish 2nd Battalion Machine Gun in the spring of 1938. Bruce and his brother Jack transferred to the PPCLI, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and Bruce sailed to Liverpool on the Duchess of Bedford in May 1940 where he was assigned as a Driver and during the Battle of Britain, he was stationed in various secret locations south of London where he worked out of headquarters, driving officers around. In June 1943, Bruce was with the 2nd Brigade Headquarters as they prepared for the invasion of Sicily. The invasion of Italy followed in September and Bruce drove a ¾-ton water truck supplying water for headquarters’ soldiers and medical facilities. While in Italy, Bruce was promoted to Corporal. After being in the army for six years, Bruce has been a resident of the Veterans’ Ward of Wascana Rehabilitation Center in Regina. At the age of 93, he composed a poem about the bravest man in the army, “The lone piper who led the soldiers into battle”. McGREGOR, Earl Robert WWII Earl was born in 1920 in Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Army with the 16/22 Saskatchewan Horse Regiment on January 16, 1942 and served with the Infantry Corps in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and the Mediterranean until his discharge in 1945. He received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, the France and Germany Star, the 1939-1945 Star, the Italy Star, the Defence Medal and the War Service Badge “General Service Class”. Earl passed away on December 25, 2000. McGREGOR, Jack WWII Jack was raised in Hitchcock, SK. He signed up with the Canadian Scottish 2nd Battalion Machine Gun at the outbreak of the war. Jack and his brother Bruce took the train to Winnipeg and transferred to the PPCLI, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. During their stay in Winnipeg, Jack met Irma Mildred Zradicka, and they were married on April 26, 1940. Jack was shipped overseas the following June and was not to see his bride again until the end of the war in 1945. Jack had the dangerous job of digging up unexploded bombs south of London. He remained in England for the duration of the war and ended up with the tough job of dealing with the aftermath of the battles. He saw the results of the horror first hand. Having become severely ill, Jack spent a lot of time in hospitals between his guard duty on the coast and hiking in all kinds of terrain and weather. From 1943 until the end of the war, he worked in the Medical Corps as an orderly. Jack passed away in 1997.
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