Captured

The first few days they treated us like British and then they'd come along and asked us when they seen our Canada on there, “We're not at war with Canada,” they said. “What are you doing here?” Well, we never told them, it wasn't up to us. It was up to the high shots to tell them, not us. So we just said, “We're just Canadians, that's it. We come from Canada.” So they didn't treat us too bad for a few weeks until they suddenly realized that we were part of Great Britain.

Mr Lynch tells about waiting to be taken prisoner and being mistaken for British.

Wilbert Lynch

Wilbert Lynch was born in Portage, Manitoba on April 6th 1923 and was raised on a farm with two brothers and three sisters. He left home when he was 13 years old and worked for five dollars a month plus room and board at a few local farms. Three days after turning seventeen he joined the army and trained on the Bren gun in Camp Shilo and became a member of the 18th Manitoba Reconnaissance Battalion.