Military Service Recognition Book

179 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GOUDIE, Kenneth Harold Kenneth was born in Ottawa, Ontario on March 30, 1944. He enlisted with the Army on November 16, 1959. Kenneth joined the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards and then served with the 30th Field Artillery (Bytown Gunners) and retired as a Master Warren Officer. He was discharged from service in 1976. Kenneth has been a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 638 Kanata for one year. GOY, John Henry John was born in Preston, Ontario on March 2, 1921. He enlisted in the Army in 1940 and served with 12 RCA 12 Field Regiment in Europe for D-Day. He was discharged in 1946. Returning home, John started a successful trucking company for over forty years. He was Mayor of Acton and the Halton County Council. John was active in his community helping bring artificial ice to extend the season for ice sport, helping new businesses to open in Acton for jobs, he was also on the building committee for Acton Curling Club. John was the President of The Royal Canadian Legion Acton Branch 197 and was a member for 40 years. He was on the building committee for the New Legion on Fairy Lake and was also on the committee for Legion Housing Lots and Legion Apartment Building for Veterans and Legion Members. John passed away on September 3, 1990. GOURLAY, John Francis Willis “Bill” John was born September 10, 1924, in Kinburn, Ontario. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in December 1942. He trained as a Radar Technician at the RAF Station in Clinton, Ontario, then assigned to Bomber Command Liberator #10 Squadron in Gander, Newfoundland. This was considered an overseas posting because Newfoundland was still a colony of Britain. He serviced planes that patrolled the North Atlantic searching for subs that had been sinking convoy ships. In 1943, John was posted to #151 RAF Forward Repair Unit, 2nd Tactical Air Force at Odiham Hants, South England. The purpose of the unit was to repair damaged fighters and fighter-bombers and put them back in service. He served in France installing radar on Mosquito aircraft for Squadrons 409 and 410 Night Fighters. The unit was guarded twenty-four hours a day seven days a week by the RAF Regiment as their Radar was so secret. It is said “No single factor was as influential in the outcome of the entire war, as the development of Radar”. John served in Canada, England, Belgium and France during World War II, being discharged in December 1945. He is a 65-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion in numerous branches across Ontario, and currently resides in Almonte and is with Branch 240 Almonte.

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