307 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND MANDERSON, Arthur James Arthur was born on January 7, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve in 1940. He served as an able body seaman during World War II until his discharge in 1945. After the war, he farmed in Myrtle Station, Ontario and worked at the General Motors Plant in Oshawa, Ontario. He was a member of the Mount Zion Masonic Lodge in Brooklin, Ontario and the Oshawa Shrine Club. Arthur was also a member of The Royal Canadian Legion in Brooklin and inWhitby, Ontario. He passed away on the January 24, 1993 in Toronto and is buried at Groveside Cemetery in Brooklin. MANDERSON, George Arthur George was born on October 4, 1887 on a farm in Myrtle Station, Ontario. He married in Toronto in June 1912 leaving a wife and two boys to enlist on December 8, 1915 as a Sapper or Combat Engineer (Bridge-building, demolition, clearing minefields and field defences) with the 123rd Infantry Battalion Royal Grenadiers CEF. George set sail to Liverpool, England aboard SS Cameronia (later torpedoed on April 15, 1917) in August 1916. He served on the Front and later transferred to the 9th Infantry Battalion due to attrition and was awarded a Good Conduct Badge on December 8, 1917. His brother, Allan Manderson, also enlisted on February 11, 1915 and served in the Canadian Army Medical Corp, 4th Canadian Field Ambulance in France. George also enlisted with the Veterans Guard of Canada and served from 1939 to 1945 guarding the Prisoners of War in Port Hope, Ontario. After the War, George continued farming beef cattle until his passing on May 16, 1967 at the Oshawa Hospital, Ontario. He is buried at Groveside Cemetery, Brooklin, Ontario. MANDERSON, Frank Thomas Frank was born on February 22, 1915 and grew up on a farm in Myrtle, Ontario. He attended high school in Whitby, Ontario. He and his brother Bruce worked for their Uncles William and Charles Carruthers at the Ideal Bread Company in Toronto. They enlisted in the RCAF and Army respectively in September 1939. Brother Jim enlisted in the Navy. Their father George served in France as a Sapper with 123rd and 9th Battalion from 1915 to 1919, and the Veterans Guard of Canada from 1939 to 1945. Frank posted to England after marrying in 1944 in Toronto. Then RCAF Stations in Pat Bay and Prince Rupert, BC; Edmonton, Whitehorse, Summerside, Trenton and Clinton, in charge of the Airmen’s Mess as a Flight Sergeant until 1965. He worked as a male nurse at the Goderich Psychiatric from 1965 to 1970. He had seven children, three boys who enlisted in the RCAF, RCMP and the USMC and one daughter enlisting in the RCAF. Frank passed away on July 28, 1970 and is buried in the Goderich Veterans Section.
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