167 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND DESJARDINE, John R. B. John was born in Owen Sound on September 10, 1903. He enlisted in the Army on October 6, 1939 and served with the Perth Regiment B Company in England during World War II. Prior to enlisting, John was working as a fisherman. After his discharge on October 9, 1942, he spent time in hospital suffering from Rheumatic Fever, but was eventually able to return to Tobermory where he built a boat and worked as a tour guide. John’s brother and sister also served in World War II. He was a member of Tobermory Legion Branch 290. John passed away on June 15, 1985. DIETER, Steven E. Steven was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on May 23, 1970. He was a Cadet Instructor Cadre (1998-2000, 2003-2006) with the Army and Air Cadet Units throughout Southern Ontario, including four summers at the Trenton Air Cadet Summer Training Centre. In 2006, he transferred to Primary Reserve to serve as Assistant Adjutant of the PWOR. In September 2007 he transferred to the Regular Force with the Public Affairs Branch. He has worked with Strategic Joint Staff Public Affairs and at 8 Wing/CFB Trenton, and Canadian Joint Operations Command as Expeditionary Missions PAO. He was deployed domestically on Operation NANOOK 08 and Operation FORGE, and expeditionary on Operation Jaguar. He has been involved in Legion Activities at Branch, Zone and District Levels as well as being involved in several charitable orders (Order of St. Joachim, St George, St Lazarus, and Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels). He was presented with the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation for historical research on Canadian service personnel buried in Jamaica. He was the recipient of the Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Canadian Forces Decoration. Steven is still serving and has been a member of Eastview Branch 462 for over twenty years. DEVOLIN, Alvin H. Alvin was born in Jarvis Settlement, Madoc, Ontario on September 22, 1909. He enlisted in the Army in 1941 and served with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment in Canada, England and France during World War II. Pte Alvin Devolin was seriously injured during an air raid in England and lost a leg. He was walking alone when a stray bomb aimed at nothing in particular, crashed down in the middle of the road, blowing a yawning hole in it. A piece of flying shrapnel struck him in the leg, and he was hospitalized in England until his return to Canada. Devolin probably owed the fact that he survived to the alertness of C.Q.M.S. “Jim” Hedges of Picton. Lying in the road in a pool of his own blood, Devolin was badly injured, when Hedges happened on the scene. Taking his own shirt “Jim” applied a tourniquet on the leg and stopped the flow of blood until the M.O. arrived. As a crack marksman in the regiment, Alvin often was in a party of soldiers who took German airmen in charge, after their planes had been shot down. Alvin was discharged in 1945. He was a member of Madoc Legion Branch 363 for 42 years. Alvin passed away in 1980.
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