319 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND KENNY, Clancy G. Clancy was born in Cobourg, Ontario on December 19, 1943. He joined the RCASC on September 29, 1961. He served in the Middle East, Borden and Gagetown as a Peacekeeper. Clancy was posted in Gagetown and was sprayed by Agent Orange and they told them it was “Top secret” and not to worry. He was discharged on February 2, 1965. He was awarded the UNEF Medal. He was a member of Elora Legion Branch 229 for 31 years. KEYES, Blake Bird Blake was born in Gananoque on October 24, 1919. He was a machinist and a member of Gananoque’s 3rd Militia Battery when he enlisted at age 21 on May 21, 1942. He served in the 5th Anti-Tank Regiment which contained many men from the Gananoque area. Sergeant Keyes landed in Normandy, France, on July 23, 1914, but was shot by a sniper just two weeks later, on August 4, 1944, and died in hospital the same day. His death was a double blow to his extended family. Just two weeks earlier, his brother-in-law, Major Archibald MacDonald of the Stormont and Dundas Glengarry Highlanders, was killed in action. Each of these men had married a Gananoque woman before leaving for overseas and each of their wives had a child born soon after their husbands left for the war. The two men are buried near each other in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian Military Cemetery which contains the graves of 2,872 other Canadians. KENT, George Edgar Edgar was born on June 1, 1894 and died on March 10, 1918 during World War I, at Vimy Ridge in France, by shrapnel. On June 28, 1916 at CEF Niagara Camp, he joined the 73 Battalion, 13th Platoon D Co. 119 Overseas Battalion, Canadian Infantry, R. H. France. Edgar served in Lettarre, the Somme and the trenches at Ypres. C.PL G.E. Kent is buried at Houchin British Cemetery, Plot 1, Row G, Grave 2.
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