LEST WE FORGET 79 AUCHSTAETTER, Marno Carl WWII Marno joined the Army in November 1941 and served until February 1946. He served in Canada, United Kingdom, Central Mediterranean, and Continental Europe. He was awarded the France and Germany Star, Defense Medal, and Canadian Volunteer Medal and Clasp. He joined The Royal Canadian Legion Pelly Branch 65 in 1947 till 1985 where he received Life Membership. He worked as Pelly Postmaster for twenty years. Marno passed away on February 26, 1987 and is interred in Kandahar Cemetery, Kandahar, Saskatchewan. BAILEY, Wesley Glenn WWII Wesley was born in Lavenham, Manitoba on January 20, 1922. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at age 18 and trained as an air gunner at Mont-Joli, Quebec. Shortly afterward, he was sent to England where he served as a Flight Sergeant with 434 Bluenose Squadron, based out of Tholthorpe in Yorkshire. After only three trips over enemy territory in the four-engine MK5 Halifax bomber, Welsey lost his life along with three other members of his crew, when their aircraft was destroyed by a BF 110 night fighter on the night of September 29, 1943. Wesley was killed in action near Munster, Germany and he is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. The navigator and the bomb aimer were the only survivors but they spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. BAERWALD, Waldo WWII Waldo was born on February 27, 1919. He joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1942 and served as Signalman until his discharge in 1945.
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