223 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GAUTHIER, Patrick E. G. “Pat” Pat was born in London, England on November 18, 1918. When war broke out, Pat was a young man living in Farmborough, Quebec, a colonization project near RouynNoranda. He told of hitching a ride to Montreal on a rail car with 60 cents in his pocket. The trip took two days and his plan was to join up with a tank unit. The Royal Montreal Regiment (Machine Gun) was the only unit recruiting at the time. He enlisted on July 27, 1940. Pat spent time in Valcartier and Trois Rivieres before going overseas. There he served in England, France and Belgium. He received the 1939-45 Star, the France and Germany Star, the Defence Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and the United Kingdom War Medal 1939-45. After his discharge on October 16, 1945, he returned to Farmborough and Noranda, working for Northern Quebec Power Co. and later, Quemont Mine. He and his wife Betty (Lane) raised nine children in Noranda. One son and three nephews have served in the Canadian Forces. Pat was a Life Member of the Canadian Corps Association Branch 7, Noranda. Pat died in a traffic accident on December 12, 1996 in Prince William, NB where he was living at the time. GENOE, Gerald Edward Gerald was born on February 18, 1972 in Brampton, Ontario. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces on June 29, 1990 as an Infanteer with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment specializing in reconnaissance and sniping. He was deployed on numerous missions including Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. In 2002, he transferred to the Electrical Mechanical Engineers serving with 2 Service Battalion, Royal Canadian Dragoons, and Task Force 3-08 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. On November 15, 2012, he was discharged from ASU London and is now pursuing a new career at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, Ontario. GENERAL, Frederick James Frederick was born in Hamilton, Ontario on July 5, 1932. He joined the PPCLI 1st Battalion in March 1951 in Hamilton and was assigned to Currie Barracks in Calgary, AB for basic training. In October of 1951, he travelled to Rivers, MB for training to become a paratrooper and later requested a transfer to the 2nd Battalion to enable him to go to Korea. In January 1953, he sailed from Seattle, Washington to Yokohama, Japan then finally on to Korea. While in the hills of Korea, he was shot in the leg and hip, accidentally, by one of his own troops and was flown out of the hills on the outside of a helicopter to a Korean hospital in June of 1953. This is when he found out he had a broken femur and shattered his hip. In August 1953, he was transferred to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, ON where he spent almost a year in a body cast and ended up marrying his nurse in 1954. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in October 2014. Frederick has been a member of Forest Legion Branch 176 for over forty years.
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