315 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND JOYNT, William J. William was born on August 15, 1884 in Burgess, Leeds County, Ontario. He enlisted in the Army on September 22, 1914. He was in the Volunteer Militia’s 42nd Regiment for eleven years and held rank as Sergeant. He went overseas in the 42nd Regiment of the 2nd Battalion. William died as a result of a gas attack at Vlamertinghe – 2nd Battle of Ypres between April 22 and April 26, 1915. He is commemorated at the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium with his name located on the monument panel 10-26-28. He received the 1914 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. These are housed at the Perth Legion Museum. His name is also on the Great War Memorial Hospital in Perth, Ontario. William’s attestation paper for Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force lists Eliza Joynt, his sister, as next of kin. KASPARD, Henry M. “Mike” Mike was born in Montreal, Quebec on March 13, 1924. He enlisted in the Army on September 18, 1940 and served with the Sherbrooke Fusiliers, Canadian Armoured Corps in Canada, England and Continental Europe during World War II. Mike was stationed in Sherbrooke, QC, Ottawa, ON and Debert, NS before disembarking in Greenock on November 5, 1942. On release from 2Gen Hosp TOS of 27 CAR May 13, 1944. He disembarked on Juno Beach on June 6, 1944, was wounded on August 12, 1944 and survived being blown out of three tanks, after which he refused to enter a 4th one. He was the only survivor of the last explosion as he was separated from other surviving members of the crew. They died tragically on October 5, 1944 as they attempted to crawl back to the Canadian Lines. In November 1944, Mike sent a sympathy letter to the widow of his friend and comrade John King “Mac” McGuire. Sixty years later, Mac’s granddaughter was able to contact Mike with the assistance of an employee of the National Archives and asked to meet him. Comrade McGuire’s daughter still had the letter of condolence Mike sent to the family in 1944. He was discharged on January 18, 1946. Mike and his wife Ruby retired to Fenelon Falls in the mid-80s. He was a member of Fenelon Falls Legion Branch 238 for twenty years. Mike passed away on October 14, 2006. KARTECHNER, Roy W. Roy was born in Kitchener, Ontario on August 22, 1928. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in August 1954 and took his basic training in St John, Quebec and Camp Borden, Ontario. As an air mechanic he worked on Lancasters, Sabres, CF100s and T33s. When he transferred to Downsview, he worked on C119 Boxcars. He served time in Africa as well as France with the UN. He also spent time servicing C130 Hercules. He retired in 1983 with the rank of Warrant Officer. The next five years he served Brock University in St Catharines as a campus police officer. He settled in Hanover with his wife Doreen in 1989 and joined Legion Branch 130. Roy and Doreen have five children.
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