183 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND KLEIMAN, Harold Felix Harold was born on December 29, 1920, in Norfolk County, Ontario. He joined Air Force (Regular Force) on March 11, 1941, and served as an observer over the St. Lawrence during World War II. He was discharged on July 28, 1945. He and his wife Sarah operated a successful apparel business in Simcoe, Ontario from 1960 to 1989. He joined the Simcoe Legion in 1969 and was awarded a Life membership by The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 79. Harold passed away on December 27, 2009. KNIGHT, Garnet L. Garnet was born in Orillia, Ontario on July 21, 1936. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy on June 19, 1953 in Toronto and proceeded to HMCS Cornwallis, Huron Division for basic training. Upon completion of trades training, he joined HMCS Magnificent on June 26, 1954, serving continuously with the ship on all sailings, notably for the ferrying of troops to the Suez Canal in 1956. As an Engine Room Stoker, he was one of the last sailors to leave HMCS Magnificent during her final hours in the RCN. Honourably released on October 18, 1958, he remained in Halifax and married Gloria Power in 1961. An avid sports player, fan and coach, he played football for the Halifax Buccaneers and was a founding member of lacrosse in Nova Scotia. In 1973, he coached the Nova Scotia Canada Games Lacrosse Team bringing home a Silver Medal for the province. Garnet was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Orillia Branch 34 before he passed away on December 7, 2003. KLIJNSTRA, Pier Hendrik Pier was born in Koudum, Friesland, the Netherlands on May 13, 1924. In 1942, during the German occupation of the Netherlands, all Dutch men aged eighteen and nineteen years were summoned to work in Germany in munitions factories. Pier said there was no way he would work for the Germans and went “underground” into hiding going from place to place for two years. In 1944, he was captured by the Germans and sent to Kamp Amersfoort, a concentration camp in the Netherlands that was originally an Army Camp. He endured nine months there and was released because he contracted diphtheria. After the liberation of The Netherlands, Pier recovered and enlisted in the Royal Netherlands Army. In the fall of 1945, he went to England for basic training and was shipped to Indonesia in 1946 to serve with the First Division, 7 December, for three years. Their mission was to restore peace and order after Indonesia’s independence in 1945. In 1949, he was released and returned to the Netherlands. In April 1952, he married Jantje Haijtema and they immigrated to Canada. They had four daughters. And lived in Port Franks and Strathroy, Ontario from 2000 to 2012. Pier passed away on October 6, 2012, at the age of 88.
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