77 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND CLARK, Richard R. J. C. Richard was born on December 6, 1915 in Manitoulin Island, ON. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army in 1942. Richard was killed in action in 1944 in France. CLAYTON, Jessica A. Jessica was born on November 5, 1923 in Windsor, ON. She enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army on January 19. 1943 and served with the Canadian Women’s Army Corps in the United States, England and Europe during World War II. She trained as a tenor drummer in the only Women’s Pipe Band. The band toured Canada twice and travelled through the United States on War Bond drives and Troop Entertainment Camps. In August 1945, they were transferred to Appledorn, Holland where the band participated in ceremonial parades and entertained at all Depots where Canadian troops were posted. The band was flown to England twice to play at International Military Sports events and once to Wimbledon for a Royal Review. She was discharged on April 17, 1946. Jessica has been a member of the Brechin-Mara Legion Branch 488 for 37 years. CLARK, Robert W. “Bill” Bill was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1921. He joined the Merchant Navy in 1945 at the age of 16 and was assigned to the M.V. Lucerna which had previously been torpedoed by a U-boat on the Murmansk run. The Lucerna took supplies and relief crews to the whaling and radar stations in Antarctica during the war. Bill recounted how the Norwegian crew, who they relieved from the whaling station, had gone berserk from brewing their own alcohol. He was in Cuxhaven in the North Sea bringing fuel for the captured German battle ship, Prinz Eugen, at the time of the surrender of the German Forces. Bill passed away in April 2014.
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