73 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND BAXTER, Murray Pearson Murray was born on December 26, 1926 in Stratford, Ontario. He enlisted in the Canadian Army on December 22, 1944, engineering in Hamilton, Ontario. On July 1, 1945 he was made Private and sent to Shilo, Manitoba to join the war in Japan but the war ended before he got there. He was honourably discharged in September 1945, with nine months of service in Canada. Murray has been a member of Sir Arthur Currie Legion Branch 116 for 45 years. BEAN, William McDougal William was born in Berlin, Ontario on April 12, 1914. He was a universityeducated man (Waterloo College of Arts) with a young wife, Marjorie, and three children, William, Judith and Jim. He signed up for the war on August 15, 1942 and was commissioned as 1st Lieutenant with the Scots Fusiliers of Canada as a supply officer in Camp Borden. William volunteered to be deployed overseas for active duty and in August 1944 was at Cdn. Inf. Reinf. Unit, Canadian Army, England. He served in England, France and the Netherlands during World War II. On September 1944, he became attached to the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, RCIC as Commanding Officer of his company, on November 7, 1944, had his first combat experience in the Battle of the Scheldt and was involved for two months of continuous battles to open the Antwerp shipping port. On March 5, 1945, Captain Bean volunteered to go to a forward observation pillbox in place of another Officer who was sick and it was there where Captain Bean was killed by shrapnel. He is buried at (VII D 10) Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands. BEACH, Cecil John “Cec” Cecil was born in Carleton Place, Ontario on August 16, 1924. He enlisted in the Army on April 1, 1942 and served with the SD&G Highlanders in Europe during World War II. Cecil and his five brothers Garnet, Orville, Alvin, Leonard and Basil were all in the military. Cecil, Orville and Garnet all served overseas and returned safely. He was injured during the D-Day landing, June 6, 1944, leaving shrapnel in his arm for the rest of his life. He went back into action only to be injured again in February 1945, this time a gunshot wound to the head, which he survived. He was discharged on August 31, 1945. Cecil worked at the Findlay Foundry in Carleton Place from 1946 to 1952. In 1946 he married Margaret Chabot, and had three kids. They moved to the Burwash Prison Farm where he taught sheet metal work to the inmates until it closed, then he moved to Merrickville, Ontario, where he continued teaching at the Burritt’s Rapids Detention Centre, until he retired. He was a member of Carleton Place Legion Branch 192. Cecil passed away on January 15, 1988.
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