173 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GILES, Jack Harold Jack was born in Newmarket, Ontario on March 15, 1925. He enlisted in the Navy on January 19, 1944 and served with the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve at the rank of Steward. He served in Canada, Newfoundland, Ireland, Scotland and Bermuda during World War II. He was discharged on March 29, 1946. After the war, Jack married Irene Adams who was from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They had two children: Clifford John and Alan Harold. Jack was a charter member of The Royal Canadian Legion Milton Wesley Branch 426 for sixty years, an honour he cherished. Jack worked for Avro Aircraft, and Office Specialty until his retirement in 1986. Jack passed away on December 6, 2006. GLEESON, Thomas Dennis “Tom” Tom was born on May 26, 1895 in Petrolia, Ontario. He enlisted in the Army at Sarnia, ON on January 3, 1918 when he was four months shy of his twenty-third birthday. He became a member of the 1st Depot Battalion of the Western Ontario Regiment and served in France in time for Canada’s Hundred Days Offensive. He returned to Sarnia after discharge, where he married and raised a family of four children. Tom worked for Imperial Oil until his retirement. He passed away on September 3, 1971. GILES, Merrill Albert Merrill was born in Carleton Place, Ontario on December 18, 1920. He enlisted in the Army on June 25, 1939 during World War II with the Stormont Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders Regiment #1 Battalion. His theatres of war were in the United Kingdom and the Northwest Europe. He was only 23 years old when he ended up in the Normandy Invasion on D-Day. Merrill was wounded in Germany on the Rhine River on March 25, 1945 and was discharged on August 22, 1945. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 192 in Carleton Place. Merrill passed away on March 16, 2000.
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