343 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND SMITH, John John was born in London, England. He left his sign making business to enlist in the Royal Canadian Army in September 1914 and served with the 18th Battalion in England and Belgium during World War I. John was killed in action in Belgium in 1916. SMITH, Margaret Cushing Margaret was born in Edmonton, AB in 1900. She graduated from Havergal College in Toronto and the University of Toronto in Public Health. She joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as a Nursing Sister in 1941 and served in England and South Pacific on the hospital ship SS Letitia during World War II. After she was discharged in 1945, she worked for Bell Canada before working for the London, ON Public Health Unit until retirement. Margaret passed away in 1985. SMITH, Kenneth Roscoe Kenneth was born on August 24, 1920 in Strathroy, ON. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy on May 20, 1942 and received his basic training in Charlottetown, PEI and Halifax, NS before being posted to HMCS Huron, a tribal class destroyer assigned to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla of the British Home Fleet of the Royal Navy based at Scapa Flow, Scotland, which was an escort ship on the Murmansk Run. On June 4, 1945 he made his final trip back across the ocean and entered Halifax Harbour on June 10, 1945. He was discharged as an Able Seaman on October 2, 1945. Kenneth was awarded the 1939-45 Star, the France and Germany Star, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, the 1939-45 War Medal, and the Artic Campaign Medal. In 1988, 45 years later, he was presented with the Russian Medal for participation in the Murmansk Run. He was a member of Sir Arthur Currie Legion Branch 116 for 36 years. Kenneth passed away on November 24, 2012.
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