Military Service Recognition Book

127 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND HAHN, Carl J. Carl was born in Hanover, Ontario on October 15, 1911. Prior to enlisting in the Army on July 20, 1942, he was active in the Elmira Civil Guard. He served in Canada with the Canadian Active Service Force and was discharged on January 25, 1946. He was awarded the War Medal 1939-1945. Carl was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion St. Mary’s Branch 236 for a number of years before he passed away on December 14, 2006. HAIGHT, Denzil Adalbert Denzil was born on July 25, 1921, in Thessalon, Ontario, a community east of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, to Stanley and Clarabell Haight. He was married to Freda Haight when he joined the Army (Regular Force) and went off to #20 Canadian Army Training Centre. While home on St. Joseph Island on March 21, 1944, he died of a pulmonary embolism at the hospital in Richards Landing. He is buried in the St. John’s Anglican Cemetery, Hilton Beach, St. Joseph Island and his name is inscribed on the Hilton Beach Cenotaph. HAIGHT, Brian Joseph Brian was born on March 18, 1922, in Bracebridge, Ontario. He served in the Provost Corps as a military policeman in England from 1940 to 1945. After meeting Matilda Ripley during his service in England, they married and had their first child before Brian and his family returned home. They lived for many years on Airport Road in North Bay, Ontario where they had ten children. He worked as a switchman/brakeman with the Ontario Northland Railway in North Bay, was an avid hunter and fisherman and always had a large vegetable garden. Brian died accidentally at the age of 43 on November 11, 1965 doing one of the things he loved the most, which was hunting.

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