167 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND FREER, Edward Hanscomb Edward was born in Coombe Lane in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in south west London, England on April 5, 1894 to Henry and Eleanor (Hanscomb). During World War I, Edward enlisted in the Army at the Niagara Camp in Ontario on June 8, 1915 and after basic training, he was attached to the 35th Battalion and sent to Halifax to be shipped overseas. On October 25, 1915, Edward boarded the SS Metagama to England. He was removed from the 35th Battalion and taken on strength with the 19th Battalion and arrived in France on March 16th, 1916. He was hospitalized in June 1917 with a very serious right knee injury caused by shrapnel. Many recurring problems with swelling below the knee kept Edward from his duties and he was sent back to England for further medical treatment. L/Cpl Freer was granted a medical discharge on January 23, 1918. Edward returned to Canada and married Mary Jane Main from Williamsburg, Ontario and they had two children, Arthur and Dorothy. Edward passed on December 15, 1973 and is buried in the Ayr Cemetery in the Region of Waterloo. FRIZELL, Raymond John Raymond was born on May 28, 1916, to Robert and Marion in Kitchener, Ontario. He had two brothers, Edward and Robert and six sisters, Violet, Doris, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Myrtle, and Rose. Prior to enlisting, he worked as a brick and stone mason in construction he also enjoyed fur farming in his spare time. Raymond married Ruth Eleanor and they had not yet started their family when war broke out. On April 11, 1942, Raymond enlisted with the Army and was part of the Essex Scottish Regiment RCIC. He served in Canada, the United Kingdom and Northwest Europe. Private Raymond Frizell was killed in action in France on July 21, 1944. He is buried in Grave 2, Row G, Plot 2 at the Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. He is gratefully remembered today as a “Son of Waterloo” and his picture hangs on the Memorial Wall in the City Hall in Waterloo, Ontario. FRENCH, Walter Edward Walter was born in Norfolk County, Ontario on April 20, 1923. He moved to Tillsonburg and worked at a Leaf Tobacco Factory. In 1942, he was eighteen years old when the factory closed, and he enlisted in the Royal CanadianAir Force during World War II. Leading Aircraftman French served in England until he developed a meningococcal septicemia infection which caused his death. Walter died in Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England on July 14, 1943, at just twenty years of age.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTM0NTk1OA==