Homecoming

I landed in Vancouver on the 23rd of November ‘45, and I got home on the 27th of November. I landed in Winnipeg the 27th of November. When we had a great big celebration in Vancouver for me, a great big welcome homecoming for us there. There was, as I said there was 37 of us coming back on that train. And the difference was just like between day and night when just like when you asked me when you come to Vancouver. The difference was just like between day and night like I said. The Americans treated us so Goddamned good and then when we come to Canada, and we had to tow the mark because we where back on our own turf with a uniform on, we had to tow the mark with our, eh?... So it was just the difference of day and night. When I got to Winnipeg on the 27th of November as I said, landed in Winnipeg. And then I had to go into the barracks there, to get my, to get all my papers for to get my my leave and everything so it took a couple of days for that. Well all my parents met me and everything in Winnipeg at the CN Station there. That was, that was great. That was great to see my father at that time.

Mr Lynch finally arrives in Canada on November 23, 1945.

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.