289 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND LLOYD, Susan Marie Susan was born in Monchengladbach, Germany on January 21, 1964. She joined the Canadian Forces from her home in Trenton, Ontario. She served for 25 years as a Supply Technician with the sea/land and air elements of the CF with HMCS Huron and the 3 PPCLI. Susan served in three Operational Tours including, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ethiopia. She was appointed to the Order of Military Merit in 2006. Susan was discharged on May 7, 2008. LODGE, William Stephen William was born on June 12, 1895 in Hackney, England. In 1906 the Lodge family immigrated to Canada. William enlisted in Kenora on January 22, 1915. The 52nd (New Ontario) Battalion was based in Port Arthur and William was sent there in June along with the rest of the Kenora volunteers. William left for England with the 2nd Reinforcing Draft: in September 1915, one of 250 men from the 52nd Battalion. He was then sent to France in February 1916 and assigned to the Machine Gun Company of the 1st Infantry Brigade. The following spring the Canadian Machine Gun Corps was formed andWilliam’s unit was renamed the 1st Company, 1st Canadian Divisional Machine Gun Battalion. In April 1917 they took part in the Battle of Vimy Ridge. In October 1917 all four Canadian divisions were sent to the Ypres Salient in Belgium for the Battle of Passchendaele. On October 31 William’s company moved forward to relieve another machine gun unit. On November 2, 1917 William was one of the unit’s casualties, suffering from gas poisoning. He was admitted to a field ambulance then transferred to a casualty clearing station, where he died on November 11. William is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery near Ypres, Belgium. He is commemorated on the Cenotaph in Kenora, Ontario. LODGE, Frederick Thomas “Fred” Fred was born in Kenora, Ontario on January 23, 1913. He joined the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada in September 1939. He received training in Winnipeg, and Shilo Manitoba. His battalion embarked for overseas on December 16, 1940 arriving in the UK on Christmas Eve. He was trained as a Signaller and became proficient in Morse code, radio technology and repairs. On August 19, 1942 the Camerons landed at Pourville Beach near Dieppe, France. Their objectives were the Dieppe-Saint Aubins airfield, Battery 265 at Rouxmosnel-Calment and a suspected German divisional headquarters at nearby Arques-la-Battaille. Although the Camerons made the deepest penetration of the day, the main landing at Dieppe had been unsuccessful and the battalion was unable to reach its objectives. Of the 503 Camerons on the raid, 346 were causalities, sixty killed in action, eight dead of wounds after evacuation, 167 became Prisoners of War. Lance Corporal Fred Lodge became a Prisoner of War - he was marched to Lambsdorf, Germany where he was incarcerated for three and a half years. He returned to Canada on June 30, 1945 and returned to Kenora with his wife and three children. A book entitled “Fred Lodge’s Diaries - A Quiet Man’s Journey Through Hell” has recently been published and is available through FriesenPress.com.
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