117 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND CUSSON, Marcel R. Marcel was born on July 3, 1919, in North Bay, Ontario. He enlisted in 1936 and was well-trained when World War II began. He served with the Royal Canadian Engineers in Canada, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe and his trade was bridge building. Sergeant Cusson received the 1939-1945 Star, the France and Germany Star, the War Medal 1939-1945, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp and the “For Efficient Service” Medal. After his discharge in 1945, Marcel was hired as a policeman in Sturgeon Falls and then was a conservation officer in Kapuskasing, a job he kept until he retired. Marcel was a member of Kapuskasing Legion Branch 85 for more than fifty years before he passed away on September 19, 1999. DALEY, William Kenneth “Ken” Ken was born in Brant County, Ontario on February 2, 1925. After enlisting on December 15, 1942, Pilot Officer W. Kenneth (Ken) Daley served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II and completed a tour of operations (bombing raids on Germany) as a Wireless Operator and Air Gunner in a Lancaster Bomber with 6 Group Bomber Command, 428 Squadron. He was awarded the Voluntary Service Medal with Maple leaf clasp and Bomber Command Bar (posthumously). He was discharged on September 10, 1945. After war service, he resumed his 41year career with Bell Canada, residing the majority of his life in Fonthill, Ontario where he and his wife Dorothy raised three children. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Talbot Trail Branch 613. Ken passed away on April 10, 2012, at the age of 87. DAILEY, William E. William was born in Gananoque, Ontario on November 12, 1900 although his attestation papers claim he was born in 1898. He was allowed to enlist at age 16, well under the minimum age of 18. His mother was attempting to get him released from the Army when he volunteered to go into the trenches. He wrote in his last letter to his mother: “I am going into the trenches tonight as a bugler... I suppose I will see some great sights over there. I didn’t have to go unless I wanted to but I volunteered... They are using buglers for gas attacks now. Be sure to tell Leona (a girlfriend) if I get killed. I told her you would. Goodbye.Your lovingWilly.” Private Dailey, of the 4th Battalion (Central Ontario) was killed on September 7, 1916 by a sniper at the Battle of the Somme while on a night-working party that was extending his battalion’s trenches.
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