Military Service Recognition Book

73 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND BRIDGE, Wesley Allan Wesley was born in Eastnor Township, County of Bruce, Ontario on June 1, 1897. On March 24, 1916, he enlisted into the 160th Bruce Battalion while living in the town of Lion’s Head, Ontario. He served in France with the Canadian Engineers duringWorldWar I and was discharged on March 1, 1919. On his return to Ontario he was involved in the forestry business but later returned to Lion’s Head, took up farming and married Rebecca (Wardrop), raising thirteen children. Wesley was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Lion’s Head Branch 202. He died in 1989 and is buried in the Eastnor Township Cemetery with his wife. BROHMAN, Clarence Alexander Clarence was born on April 27, 1919 in West Montrose, Ontario, to Bernard (Barney) and Angeline (Schmuck). He had eleven siblings: Ralph, Clayton, Wilfred, Dorothy, Helen, Mary, Roy, Leonard, Bernard, Elizabeth and Robert. He received basic education in Woolwich and helped on the farm until 1943, when he enlisted in the Army during World War II and served his country until 1945. On demobilization, he returned to Ontario and continued to farm. He married Mary Bitschy and they had four children: MaryAnn, Joan, Jack and Jerome. Clarence passed away on March 25, 1989 at seventy years of age and is buried in the St. Boniface Cemetery in Maryhill, Ontario. BRINGLOE, James Henry James was born on May 1, 1916 in Waterloo, Ontario. He was living with his widowed mother in Tillsonburg and previously worked at the Bringloe Furniture Company in Cornwall. On December 12, 1940, James decided to enlist with the Royal Canadian Air Force and served in Europe during World War II. Pilot Bringloe was with the No 180 Squadron RAF, a medium bomber unit when he went missing in air operations over Normandy on August 21, 1944.

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