245 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GROSS, Frank Herbert Frank was born in Hanover, Ontario on August 24, 1894. He was drafted under the Military Service Act, 1917 and became a private in the 2nd C.O.R. Regiment. The number 7 Heavy Machine Gun Depot was part of this unit of which Frank was a member. His Medical Examination was taken on Wednesday, October 30, 1918 in Hanover, Ontario by Dr. Taylor. He was married, 23 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches tall with brown hair and brown eyes. He is listed as working as a finisher in the Furniture Industry. Training was conducted at Canadian Forces Base, Niagara Falls, Ontario. The Commanding Officer was Major L. G. Clark. He was a member of Walkerton Legion Branch 102 for 55 years. Frank passed away on August 14, 1974. GUNTER (CRISP), Irene A. Irene was born in Bethnal Downs, London, England on October 28, 1923. She enlisted in the Royal Air Force (WAF) in 1943 at the age of twenty. She served at numerous air bases during the course of the war. Irene was a communications specialist mainly guiding damaged aircrafts returning from missions over Europe to their nearest safe landing strip. She was discharged in 1945. After the war, on the return of Ivan, who was serving in Europe with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, she married him. She then became a war bride and lived in Coe Hill until Ivan’s retirement. She was an active member of Branch 581 RCL Coe Hill for 44 years. Irene passed away on September 19, 2011. GUNNESS, David H. David was born in Starbuck, Manitoba on October 10, 1911. He enlisted in the Canadian Army (Active) on January 4, 1943 at London, Ontario. He served with 2 Chemical Warfare Mortar Coy of the Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE) as a Platelayer Group B Grade II and eventually qualified as a Sapper Pioneer. After training in Listowel, Petawawa, Suffield and Windsor, David was shipped overseas serving in England, France and Holland. The RCE and especially David’s Company was cited for their work in Holland when they ferried over 2500 weary paratroopers of the British First Airborne Division across the lower Rhine River on withdrawal at Arnhem-Oosterbeek where they were under constant hail of German machine gunfire and mortar bombs. His medals include the 1939-45 Star, the France and Germany Star, the Defence Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp and the War Medal 1939-45. He was discharged on February 23, 1946 at the rank of Corporal. David passed away in March 1950.
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