125 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GREEN, George George was born in England in 1895. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) and served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th Battalion during World War I. He was a resident of Acton, Ontario for several years prior to his death on May 23, 1956. GUNN, Howard W. Howard was born on January 11, 1916 in Port Dalhousie, Ontario. He joined the Royal Canadian Artillery on September 1, 1939 and served in Canada, the United Kingdom, the central Mediterranean area and Continental Europe. He was discharged on November 24, 1945. Howard followed a career in the Ontario Provincial Police Force rising to the rank of Detective Sergeant and was lastly stationed in Sudbury until his retirement. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Bruce Mines Branch 211 and Sudbury Branch 76 for total of 36 years before he passed away in August 1981. GREGORY, Donald Orval Donald was born on April 23, 1924, in Toronto, Ontario. At age eighteen, he enlisted in the RCAF on November 17, 1942. As part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Donald commenced pilot training in August 1943 at the No. 7 Elementary Flying Training School in Windsor, Ontario. Qualifying on the Tiger Moth and Finch two-seat, tandem training biplane he was transferred to No. 2 Service Flying Training School at Uplands, Ontario near Ottawa and qualified on Harvards. At the Rivers, Manitoba No. 1 Central Navigation School, he qualified as a Short Navigation Instructor. Donald certified as a First Pilot and was promoted to Pilot Officer in July 1944. He became a pilot instructor in August 1944. His first pilot instruction began at the No. 13 EFTS at St. Eugene in eastern Ontario where trainees qualified on Finch and fabric covered Cornell aircraft. In 1945, the No. 13 EFTS and Donald were transferred to St. John, Quebec, now Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Flying Officer Donald Gregory was released from active service with honour and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal on November 20, 1945, and transferred to the Reserve General Section of the RCAF. He was a ten-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Port Credit Branch 82. Donald resided in Milton, Ontario from 2019 until his passing on April 26, 2021.
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