329 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND McINTOSH (CHUDLEY), Marion Elizabeth Marion was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario on February 14, 1936. She enlisted in the RCAF in 1958 and served as LAW Group 3 Secretary to Winnipeg Personnel Unit, then Secretary to AOC in Metz, France. From there she transferred to Zweibrucken and Baden-Baden, Germany as Secretary to the CO’s. She was honourably discharged in 1961 and began a career in civilian life as Administrative Secretary, Insurance Broker andAssistant Risk Manager. She is now widowed and a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 133 Cobourg for 21 years. McIVER, M. Glenn Glenn was born on September 19, 1916 in Hespeler, Ontario. He joined the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada on June 18, 1940 and saw action in Europe through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He joined as a Rifleman and in 1943 returned to Canada to take officer training re-joining his regiment in France following D-Day. In the winter of 1944 to 1945, he was involved in the Battle of the Scheldt in Belgium and Holland. After VE Day, Glenn served in the Army of occupation returning home in September 1945. Following the war, he joined the 3rd Battalion, QOR, militia unit and from 1960 to 1963 commanded the 3rd Battalion as Lieutenant Colonel. In civilian life, he married in 1940, raised two children and taught plumbing at Danforth Technical School until retiring in 1978. He was a fifty-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 344 Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto. Glenn passed away on March 17, 2008. McIVER, Jack Samuel Jack was born in Hespler, Ontario in 1926. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Jack was a tail gunner on a Halifax bomber while attached to a British-bomber Squadron stationed on the east coast of India. On the morning of March 26, 1945 a flight of six Halifax bombers was ordered to attack a small Japanese Convoy. The flight was more than 700 miles to the attack and then back to base, the attack was a complete success and all the enemy vessels were sunk. The plane that Jack was in was hit with fire from the escort ship with the convoy. Two engines were disabled and the hydraulic system destroyed. The bomber ditched into the sea and there were only two survivors who were picked up some hours later by a British destroyer. The two survivors had managed to surface and reach a life raft. Flight Sergeant Jack Samuel McIver was not one of the survivors. Jack had just passed nineteen years of age. In civilian life Jack had just graduated Valedictorian from East York Collegiate.
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