Private
Army
Burr, Saskatchewan
Died: Apr 17,1943

Commemorated at
Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery, Polan

Robert Arthur Wignes, of Burr, Saskatchewan served as a Private with the Royal Regiment of Canada during the Second World War. Wignes died a prisoner of war April 17, 1943. He took part in the raid on Dieppe, France, August 19, 1942 and was shot on his second escape attempt, for which he earned the Citation, Mentioned in Despatches. Private Wignes is buried at Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery in Poland. There are 483 Commonwealth casualties of World War II buried or commemorated there, most of whom died while prisoners of war during the German occupation. Robert was the son of Gus Gunderson and Catherine Wignes who homesteaded west of Burr, Saskatchewan; he was 24 years old. “At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”