171 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GATSCHENE, Leo Joseph Leo Joseph Gatschene was born in Josephsburg, Ontario on September 13, 1889 to Joseph and Agnes (Strub). He worked as a carpenter and was married to Bertha (Shultz). They had two daughters, Marcella and Grace. On December 13, 1915, Leo drove to Stratford and joined the military duringWorldWar I. He was assigned to the 110th Battalion CEF, “B” Company. He sailed aboard the SS Caronia to England on October 31, 1916 and arrived on French soil in the spring of 1917. While in the Battle of Arras, France on August 26, 1918, Leo was badly injured from shrapnel. The war was over for Leo but the battle for his health was just beginning. After an amputation of one leg and almost a year in hospital recovering from injuries in England, he was sent back to Canada to the hospital in Toronto for more surgery. Leo was discharged in Toronto on March 19, 1920. He was a charter member of The Royal Canadian Legion Waterloo Branch 530. Leo passed away in 1961 and rests in Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener. His name has been inscribed on Plaque #1 of the Waterloo Legion Veterans Memorial Wall. GEROW, Wilbur John Wilbur was born on March 20, 1913 in Tillsonburg. Sargent Gerow worked for ten years after high school at a local canning factory, a cook in Tillsonburg and Hamilton before moving to Toronto to study music. He married and enlisted into the RCAF on October 8, 1940. While serving as a gunner with 419 RAF Squadron the plane was lost on a bombing mission to Mannheim, Germany in late 1943. Sergeant Gerow passed on October 18, 1943 in Mannheim, Germany. GAYDON, Albert Albert was born in Barnstaple, Devon, England on September 20, 1876. He served for eleven years in the Royal Navy and was married to Mary Jane and they had four children: Daisy, Robert, Maud and Beattie. On February 7, 1916, Albert joined the Army with the 125th Battalion at Brantford, Ontario during World War I. On August 6, he was shipped from Halifax aboard the SS Scandinavianand arrived in England on August 18, 1916. The extra training that was given proved to be too taxing on Albert as he had health problems from the heart which caused dyspnea, so on his own request he was sent back to Canada aboard the SS Megantic on August 14, 1917 by special authority. The medical team at Camp Borden determined that any ordinary exertion caused chest pain, vertigo and headaches and that a forced run of two hundred yards raised his heartbeat to over one hundred sixty, further treatment will not benefit his condition, nor improve his disability. Albert was discharged at the #2 Casualty unit in Toronto on November 30, 1917. Albert died on December 7, 1918 and is buried in the Bethel Church Cemetery in Ancaster, Ontario.
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