LEST WE FORGET 339 SMITH, Wilfred Bruce WWII Wilfred Bruce Smith was born on September 27, 1915, in Hawarden, Saskatchewan, the son of Hugh and Maggie Smith who homesteaded in the area in 1906. Wilfred Bruce Smith enlisted in Saskatoon on June 21, 1940. At the time of his enlistment, he gave his occupation as druggist. He was a member of RAF Number 78 Squadron. At 23:55 hours on May 29, 1941, pilot Smith and the other four crew of a Whitley V bomber took off from Middlesex St. George Airbase on a bombing mission over Kiel, Germany. His plane, part of a 14 aircraft mission, was lost over Germany. Wilfred Bruce Smith is buried beside 2,373 other Commonwealth casualties in Becklingen War Cemetery near Soltau, Germany. He was 25 years of age. SONMOR, Lloyd O. WWII Lloyd Sonmor enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force on January 1, 1942 and was posted overseas to Great Britain by December. New Year’s Day was celebrated somewhere on a troop ship on the Atlantic Ocean. He was posted to serve in Coastal Command, 404 Squadron, as an aero engine mechanic in both England and Scotland for the next three years. He returned home in the late fall of 1945 as World War II was finally won by the Allied Forces over Germany. Lloyd was discharged from the Royal Canadian Air Force in Winnipeg, Manitoba in January 1946. SOBUS, Gwendale “Glen” Glen was born in Nokomis, Saskatchewan on November 12, 1938. He served in the Army with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, 1st Battalion from 1955 to 1958. He served in Germany from 1955 to 1958 and in Victoria from 1957 to 1958. Glen passed away on August 25, 2004.
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