331 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND SMALLER, Neil Neil Smaller was born in Wegburg, Germany on April 20, 1958. He joined the Canadian Military on November 30, 1979, at the age of 21 and served for ten years. He was assigned with the Communications and Electronics Branch having spent four years with the Special Service Force in Petawawa becoming an Airborne Paratrooper, four years in Lahr, Germany with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery and two years with 3 Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Esquimalt on Vancouver Island. He was released in August 1989. After leaving the military, he worked for Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers (professional accounting firms) as an auditor specializing in Computer Security Risk and Controls and is currently employed with the Canadian Government as a Risk Specialist. He has been a resident of Windsor, Ontario for thirty years. SMITH, Frank Gordon Frank was born in London, Ontario on October 4, 1924. He enlisted in the Army Regular Force in February 1942 and served as a Sergeant with the Royal Canadian Regiment in Sicily and in Italy. He was blinded in one eye, captured in December 1944, and released in May 1945 from a Prisoner of War camp. He was released from service in August 1945. Frank worked in the plumbing industry as Sales Manager in London/Toronto. He retired to Thedford, near Pinehill, where he trained with his wife Beryl. He was a member of Thedford Branch 278 of The Royal Canadian Legion from 1982 to 2005 and Commissionaire at Camp Ipperwash. While a resident of Chateau Gardens from 2005 to 2007, he joined the Parkhill Legion Branch 341. His name appears in “A Regiment at War”, Strome Galloway, 1979. Frank passed away on February 10, 2007. SMITH, Everett Melville Everett was born in Tobermory, Ontario on May 4, 1925. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) on September 29, 1944 with the Grey and Simcoe Foresters. Everett was unable to take advanced training as he was underweight, being short/slight in stature. He then applied to the Canadian Army Show and spent two years entertaining troops with a group called “The Fun Fatigues” in Belgium, Holland and Germany. He was discharged on August 13, 1946. At war’s end, Everett returned to Canada to work at CFOS Radio Station in Owen Sound where he became Program Director. From there, he went to CKCO-TV in Kitchener and CKVR-TV in Barrie. Everett passed away on October 20, 2006.
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