293 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND LORTIE, Harry J. Harry was born in Spanish, Ontario on February 8, 1935. He joined the Army on February 14, 1952 and served in Canada and in Continental Europe as a Peacekeeper with Unit 2 PPCLI. He was discharged on October 4, 1955. Harry worked in the mine industry in Elliot Lake and Sudbury, Ontario. He retired from Falconbridge Mines, Sudbury as a Clerical Geologist. In 1987, he has been named member of the General Manager’s Golden Falcon Club, Sudbury Operations and received an award for his work. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Lockerby Branch 564 in Sudbury for over forty years and also a member of War Pensioners of Canada Dominion Incorporated Fred Vincent Branch in Sudbury. Harry passed away on November 23, 2014. LOUDON, John Alexander “Jack” Jack was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1921. He enlisted in the RCAF in 1939 training in navigation and bomb aiming. Sent overseas to England in 1940, he was attached to the RAF #226 Squadron on June 5, 1944. Flying B-25-Mitchells, Jack’s first sortie was with 100 aircraft. “…we were attacking a building in Caen where the Germans were holed up and the Army were having trouble making progress. We were bombing within 100 yards of our own troops.... That was my first flight on ops.....the aircraft was so full of holes from flak.” Jack flew thirty sorties with his crew and six night ops with another crew. On a night op over Belgium ... “we were hit by flak, it shot off one of the fins and rudders in the B-25.” Jack and the air gunner bailed out at the same time landing in a farmer’s field. The farmer hid them. “After 10 days, the Canadians had advanced and the farmer drove us to a main road where we hooked up with a Canadian engineering battalion traveling with a tank group. Then we got a ride back to B-5, back on the Normandy beachhead and flew to England.” Jack was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Harry Wray Branch in Gravenhurst. He passed away on December 11, 2014. LOUCH, Douglas James “Doug” Doug was born on August 14, 1931 in Lindsay, Ontario. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy in April 1949. He was trained as a Communications Operator (COM OPS) and served on the vessels HMCS La Hulloise (frigate), HMCS Crescent (destroyer), HMCS Prestonian (frigate), HMCS Chignecto (minesweeper), and HMCS Iroquois destined for the Korean War. On an operation near Songjin, North Korea, the ship took on enemy fire killing three and wounding ten, the only casualties to the RCN for the Korean War. Doug re-enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1954 as a Radio Operator and had many postings. He retired from the RCAF in December 1975, later joining the Canadian Coast Guard. Doug currently lives in Lindsay, Ontario with his wife Marion. He is a fifty-year of The Royal Canadian Legion Lindsay Branch 67.
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