483 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND WOOD, George E. George was born on April 17, 1914 in Nottingham, England. He enlisted in the Army on March 6, 1940 and served with the Royal Regiment Canada in Canada, Iceland and England during World War II. He became a Prisoner of War in Dieppe on August 19, 1942. After discharge on October 2, 1945 he was employed by TTC and then Grey Coach Lines as a driver. He married Muriel Robson and they had four children. Heart disease ended his career with Grey Coach in 1960 and George later passed away on May 23, 1967. He was a ten-year member of the Lt. Col. John McCrae Memorial Branch 234 in Guelph. WOODMAN, Douglas A. Douglas was born in St. Catharines, Ontario on July 2, 1918 to Ezra and Hazel Woodman. He joined the RCAF on May 27, 1940 and was sent overseas and attached to an RAF Squadron 236 as an Air Observer. He was wounded during his air operations and died as a result of those injuries in hospital in the village of Mallow, County Cork, Ireland on October 23, 1941. Douglas was 23 years old. WOOD, Jeffery Alan “Jeff” Jeff was born on September 26, 1963 in Balve, Germany, the son of a serving Canadian solider. He was raised in Borden, ON; Moose Jaw, SK; Oromocto, NB and Petawawa, ON where he joined the militia in the Lanark and Renfrew Scottish. Jeff joined the Regular Forces after recruit training in Cornwallis and returned to Petawawa with the RCR’s. He served from 1983 to 1988. He left the service and tried his hand in many ventures but was finally recognized as a writer of novels and screenplays. Jeff died at the early age of fifty in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 20, 2014.
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