177 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND KENYON, Benjamin H. Benjamin was born on May 6, 1915, in Plattsville, Ontario. He joined the Army on April 28, 1942 and served with the Royal Canadian Signal Corps and the Royal Canadian Service Corps in Canada, England and Northwest Europe until his discharge on March 29, 1946. He went back to work as a brakeman for the Canadian National Railway in Belleville, Ontario. Benjamin died on November 24, 1964. KICKHAM, Terence James Terence was born on March 26, 1939, in Parry Sound, Ontario. He was raised in Kitchener, Ontario until he joined the RCMP at the age of nineteen. His basic training was in Regina, Saskatchewan. In 1960, Terence was stationed in Nova Scotia where he worked as a Patrolman. In 1969, he was stationed in Hamburg, Germany working as a Visa Control Officer. From 1972 to 1977, he worked in Toronto in the Security Service Division. In 1977, Terrence moved to Windsor again to work in the Security Service Division. From 1985 to 1993, Terence moved to the CSIS Division in Windsor. He is married and raised three children. In 1993, he retired from the RCMP but went to work at Fox Glen Golf Course as a retirement job. He golfed as much as he could. Terence passed away on June 26, 2004. He was a twenty-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Riverside Branch 255. KETTERSON, Alexander “Alex” Alexander, the son of Alexander and Lulu Ketterson, was born in Ireland November 15, 1877. He immigrated to Canada and in 1909 was a student at Trinity College in Toronto. As a student minister, he preached at the Anglican Church in Erin, Ontario where he made many friends and returned a number of times after the war. In January 1916, he gave an Illustrated Lecture in the Erin Town Hall entitled “The Great War” with the proceeds going to the Red Cross. Alexander enlisted with the 80th Battalion C.E.F. as a Chaplain in Bellville, Ontario in February 1916. Overseas, he served at the Witley and Shorncliffe Camps in England. He became the senior chaplain of the Sixth Infantry Brigade, 1916-1918. He saw frontline service at Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917; Hill 70, August 1917 and Passchendaele, November 1917. Capt. Ketterson returned to Canada in August 1918 and was posted to the Davisville Military Hospital in Toronto and the Cobourg Military Hospital in 1919. He was discharged on September 6, 1919. Alex published a book based on his wartime experience “On Active Service - Ideals of Canada’s Fighting Men.” Alex passed away in Ocean Grove NJ on July 23, 1952.
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