63 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND CAIRNS, Robert Robert was born in Auchendinny, Scotland on July 26, 1892. During World War I, Robert joined the Royal Navy Reserve and spent three-and-a-half years on submarines and eighteen months on various ships and cruisers. After WorldWar I, as a mechanical engineer, Robert installed paper machines in Tokyo, Japan and later immigrated to Massachusetts, USA. His sweetheart, Harriet Setchell, arrived by sea to Boston, USA where they married on November 22, 1923. In 1927, Robert, wife, and three-year-old son immigrated to Quebec. At the start of World War II, Robert joined the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve. He served time in St. John’s, NL servicing Corvettes, Ontario overseeing the new Minesweeper HMCS Westmount, and Quebec City overseeing the building of three Corvettes (HMCS Valley Field, HMCS Cape Breton, and HMCS Outremount). Robert then joined the HMCS Outremount and was on the Londonderry-Murmansk run. During D-Day, he was part of a team who helped tow a crippled Aircraft Carrier back to safety. In 1946, he was given an honourable mention in both Canada and London Gazette. At the end of World War II, Robert returned to his family in Kenogami, Quebec and continued his work with Price Brothers. Robert passed away in Ste. Foye, Quebec on October 10, 1979. CAMBRIDGE, Allan John Allan was born in London, Ontario in 1926. He served during and after World War II in the Royal Canadian Navy (Regular Force) on board HMCS Orangeville K491 (corvette) and the HMCS Uganda (destroyer). Allan was a stoker on board the Orangeville from 1944 to 1945 and was there for her commissioning in 1944 in Leith, Scotland. He served on board fifteen convoy escorts in the North Atlantic duringWorldWar II. Allan was released in 1948. He was a member of the Duchess of Kent London. Allan passed away in 2004. CALLAN, Malcolm Francis Malcolm was born in England on December 9, 1942. He was living in Acton, Ontario at the time of enlistment in the RCN (Regular Force) on December 11, 1959, two days after his seventeenth birthday. He served on HMCS Cornwallis, HMCS Cornwallis Communication School, HMCS Victoriaville, HMCS St. Croix Albro Lake until September 16, 1962, and obtained the rank of ABRM 1. He primarily did morse code communications. Malcolm was also on the Navy boxing team as a welterweight at 142 lbs. He was stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia until 1962 when he was transferred to California, USA and then to Washington State in 1979. He retired in Washington State as a senior aircraft manufacturing engineer. He spent time on 747 Laser, Global Hawk spy plane RQ4, 757, 767, 777, 787 commercial aircraft in addition to F5, F16, F1J, F18 fighters based in the Mojave Desert for some time on various programs. He held a private pilot license, hypnotism certificate, was a very successful musician playing the saxophone in Los Angeles and Washington State supplementing his income for 35 years. Malcolm has been a motorcycling enthusiast most of his life.
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