145 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND EDWARDS (BAKER), Margery Edna Margery Baker was born on March 12, 1926 to George Edric Baker and Edna Evelyn Shaw in a small village called Clipstone in Nottinghamshire, England. She enlisted with the British Army in March 1944 and served as a Private with the 356 Company RASC Station Aldershot, driving officers, army trucks, and ambulances while she served in the United Kingdom and England during World War II. While at war, she met Allen Keith Edwards. They were married on June 19, 1946 in her hometown. Shortly after they were married, the war ended, and Margery was discharged on July 26, 1946. Because she was a war bride, she and her daughter, Barb, were not able to go to Canada right away. They came by ship from England to Halifax with 26 other war brides and their children to be reunited with their husbands in Canada. Once back in Canada, Margery and Allen had three more children: Janet, Hayden and Christopher. Margery passed away on November 29, 2009 and is buried in a cemetery in Lambeth County, Ontario. ELLIOT, Emma Frances Emma was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America on March 10, 1882, then moved to Port Hope, Ontario. As a professional nurse, she enlisted duringWorldWar I in the Canadian Army Medical Corps in April 1915 and served with No. 4 Canadian General Hospital in England and France before embarking for Salonica. She was recalled to Basingstoke, England with the unit in September 1917. Emma survived the war and returned to Canada to continue her nursing in Northern Ontario mines. She was included in a reception for First and Second World War women veterans by the Lt Governor of Ontario, William Earl Row, at his Queen’s Park Office in 1967. EITEL, Edward Laverne Edward was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario on August 16, 1924. His name is listed on the High School Honor Roll. In August 1943, Edward received his Royal Canadian Air Force Wings but died the following July 29, 1944 at the age of nineteen. He had been serving as air gunner aboard Lancaster bomber PB198 when the plane was shot down on a bombing raid to Stuttgart, Germany. The crew is buried at Saulxures les Bulgneville in North East France.
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