85 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND BISSONETTE, Wilfred Arthur “Pink” Wilfred was born in Stanley House, Lake Joseph, Muskoka, Ontario on August 14, 1917. He was a Sergeant Major in the Army and served in Canada, England, Holland and Belgium during World War II. All of his medals were lost. Wilfred started his own construction business in 1945. He was a member of Peninsula Legion Branch 489 for 53 years. Wilfred passed away on June 6, 1998. BOATMAN, Leonard Joseph Leonard was born in Waterloo, Ontario on October 31, 1918 to George and Elenora (Hauck) Boatman. He had one sister Leona Miller and one brother Carl. Leonard joined the Army in 1941 and became attached to the (RCASC) Royal Canadian Service Corps, 7th Infantry Brigade Company. They were delivering food, petrol and other supplies which included nitro glycerin to the British tanks of the 284th Armored Assault Squadron (Royal Engineers) who were located at the Belgium/Holland border town of Ijzendike. On October 20, 1944, after crossing a broken down culvert they proceeded to the temporary base of the British convoy and were unloading their vehicles when an explosion ripped through the area killing thirty-seven and seriously injuring fifty-one. Sixteen of those who perished, including Leonard J. Boatman, were so badly destroyed that there is no personal grave. The names of those sixteen are commemorated at the Memorial Statue Groesbeek, Nijmegen, Holland. On October 20, 1997, fifty three years later, a memorial “Monument Ijzendike” listing all those who lost their lives was built on the actual site and is titled “Their Name Liveth Forever More” BOATMAN, Carl George Carl was born in Waterloo, Ontario on April 10, 1921 to George and Elenora (Hauck). He had one sister Leona Miller and one brother Leonard, who lost his life in a nitro glycerin explosion in Ijzendike, Holland in 1944. Carl went to school in Waterloo and then joined the Army on July 4, 1940 and served with the 24th Field Ambulance throughout Italy, Netherlands and Germany during World War II and then received his discharge papers on December 1, 1945. After the war, Carl worked at Lang Tannery where he met the love of his life, Irene (Kelly), married her and they had ten children. Shortly after, he worked at the Waterloo Fire Department until his retirement. Carl was in his 50th year as a member of Branch 530 Waterloo until his death on April 10, 2002 and is buried at Parkview Cemetery in Waterloo.
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