163 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND DRAGO, Robert William Robert was born on November 15, 1936 at home inWalkerville, Ontario. He started in High School Army Cadets and served with the Windsor Regiment (22 Armoured) enlisting with the Army Reserve Force in 1953 as Corporal Instructor at Camp Ipperwash for two summers. In 1959, he was in the Armoured Corps Association. Robert was discharged in 1960. He was one of the founding members of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 578 in East Windsor, Ontario and is one of the last remaining. It was unfortunate that during his presidency the building had to be sold in 2008. The branch was relocated twice and is currently amalgamated with Walkerville East Windsor Branch 12. Bob received his Life Member Award in 2012. Bob is heavily involved with his three children, family and community, Church, Ontario Archaeology Association, Scout Leader, among others. DUFFAS, Rubie Magdalene Rubie was born on April 16, 1887 in Bosanquet Township, Ontario. The family later moved to Saltcoats, Saskatchewan. She was a nursing sister and enlisted in the Army on April 18, 1916. She served in France with No. 8 Overseas Stationary Hospital in 1917 during World War I. Rubie was discharged in April 1918. When she returned to Canada, she married and lived in Pictou, Nova Scotia. DRIJBER, Oscar Louis Oscar was born in Ende, Flores Island, Indonesia on April 4, 1914. He trained at the Royal Military College in Breda, Netherlands serving in the army prior to the Germans marched into Holland in 1940. Oscar was taken prisoner and was interned in three Prisoner of War camps: Oflag VI A Soest, Oflag VIII C Juliusburg and Oflag IV C Colditz, where Oscar and another prisoner escaped on September 19, 1941. With a fake document, he made his way to England via Switzerland. Following commando training, Oscar was assigned to the Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service where he was sent to Australia and involved in numerous commando actions behind the Japanese lines in the Dutch East Indies. In Australia, Oscar trained as a navigator with rank of First Lieutenant with the Royal Netherlands Indies Army (KNIL) and assigned to the No. 18 RAAF Squadron in 1942 flying B-25 Mitchell bombers. Posted to Java, he met Sytske Brandsma, an intelligence mapper/interpreter with the Dutch Intelligence. They married in 1946 and immigrated to Canada in 1954 settling in Rockwood, Ontario where they raised six children and Oscar was a school teacher. He was a member of both Guelph andActon Branches of The Royal Canadian Legion. Oscar passed away January 27, 1995. He received the following Dutch Decorations: VHK (Resistance Memorial Cross, BK (Bronze Cross), OHK (War Commemorative Cross); Medal for Order and Peace.
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