513 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND TAYLOR, Geoffrey T. Geoffrey was born in England on April 15, 1928. He enlisted in the Army on May 2, 1945 and served during the end of World War II and the conflict of Cyprus. He was discharged on June 14, 1948. He was a member of Port Perry Legion Branch 419. Geoffrey passed away in December 2011. TENNANT, George Harvey George was born on August 12, 1890. He enlisted in the Army on March 21, 1916 and served with the 192nd Alberta Battalion in England, France and Belgium during World War I. He was killed in action at Passchendaele on October 30, 1917. George had been engaged to marry prior to enlisting to go overseas, his family kept in contact with Florence Bathie until about 1920 and about sixty years later in 1980, his nephew got in contact with her again and they corresponded for almost 12 years until her death. TAYLOR, William C. William Taylor, Able Seaman of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteers, was born in Hamilton, Ontario on May 21, 1921. He joined up in Hamilton late in 1941, and was on stand-by until early 1942 when he was drafted into the Navy at Halifax, NS, where he did his training before being posted to HMCS Chicoutimi for convoy duty. The ship would pick up fifty ships at a time, bring them out of New York, pick up ammunition ships and high octane gasoline ships coming all the way from Uruguay, and they would join their convoy and scoot them up all the way up to Newfoundland, and then the relief ships came out from there and they continued on with the convoy overseas. William served three and a half years on the Corvette before being drafted to the frigate HMCS Inch Arran on a tour to Bermuda. After arriving back in Halifax, he was drafted to Owen Sound to pick up the tug HMCS Glendyne. William and the crew took the tug through the Great Lakes, down the St. Lawrence, arrived at Montreal, and the war was over. William was discharged in April 1945.
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