169 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GOHEEN, John John was born in Newmarket, Ontario on January 17, 1924. He joined the RCAF on January 18, 1943 and served overseas with the RAF before being sent to Yorkshire, attached to #432 RCAF Squadron #6, Group Bomber Command, as a tail gunner on a Halifax bomber involved with bombing raids on oil refineries, munitions factories in Holland, Germany and France. John was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, Bomber Command Bar, War Medal 1939-1945 and Canadian Forces Decoration with Clasp. Post war, he served in Communications, mostly in Gimli, Winnipeg, Whitehorse, Edmonton, Trenton and Shilo where he retired on November 29, 1973. He was a Board member with the Halifax Aircraft Association and a member of the Ex-Air Gunners Association of Canada. As a member of Trenton Legion Branch 110 for 64 years, he was also a Life Member and President of that Branch from 1995-1996 and 1999-2000. He was awarded the MSM 1996 and the Palm Leaf 1999. Father to five children, John passed away on September 2, 2010. GOLDEN, Charles E. Charles was born in Tobermory, Ontario on June 13, 1917. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) on June 19, 1940 and served with the Grey and Simcoe Foresters, 1st Hussars in England, France and Germany. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Tobermory Branch 290. Charles passed away on August 28, 1987. GOHEEN, Peter Joseph “Joe” Joe was born on November 28, 1929, in Newmarket, Ontario. He was known as Joseph Goheen until he legally changed his name to Peter in 1965. He joined the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on February 10, 1956 and served as a vehicle mechanic technician in Gagetown, Borden, Kingston, Meaford as well as in Germany and Egypt as part of the United Nations Forces. Upon retirement from the Army on November 28, 1973, he joined the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires and later found employment as a bus driver at the Ontario School for the Deaf in Belleville, Ontario. Married with one son, he collected Occupied Japan china, glassware and antiques. Joe was a member of Trenton Legion Branch 110 for 52 years before he passed away on December 31, 2011.
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