357 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND MOSER, Leonard John Leonard was born on May 14, 1917 in Waterloo, Ontario. When war broke out, he left his mother Amelia to serve his Country. He joined the Canadian Merchant Navy and served as 2nd Radio Officer aboard the SS Forthbank. The Forthbank was the Commodore ship leader in the port column with a number of escort ships out of Gaurock on the coast of Scotland. The Forthbank was inbound with steel and general cargo from New York via the Mersey and the Clyde for Hull. On March 1, 1941, enemy aircraft was seen flying over the convoy and engaged the column leaders, dropping a stick of bombs. One bomb was a direct hit on the wireless cabin on the Forthbank, killing 2nd Radio Officer Leonard John Moser instantly. He is remembered on Panel 18 of the Halifax Memorial, honouring the men and women of the Navy, Army and Merchant Navy of Canada who lost their lives at sea. Warrant Officer Leonard Moser is also gratefully remembered today as a “Son of Waterloo” and his picture hangs on the Memorial Wall in the City Hall in Waterloo, Ontario. MOYER, Peter Lynn Peter was born in Brantford, Ontario on September 17, 1940. He joined the Air Force on July 8, 1958 at the age of seventeen. He trained as a Ground Crew Instrument Technician in St Jean, PQ. He moved from Chipmunks, Harvards and Expeditors in Centralia, Ontario to CF 104’s in Cold Lake, Alberta. He travelled through Europe on two tours at 4 Wing and Lahr and saw the world out of flights from Trenton, Ontario. He was discharged on July 29, 1978. He retired to Hespeler, ON and spent 25 years as owner/operator of an eight lane spin bowling center. Peter has been a Royal Canadian Legion member of the Hespeler Branch 272 in Cambridge for 32 years. MOULDER, Lavern Herbert Lavern was born in Windsor, Ontario on June 28, 1918. Private L. H. Moulder was one of the more than one million Canadian military volunteers in World War II. As such he was no different than so many of his generation. He was 25 years old married with a three-year-old and a three-month-old and was earning $27 per week. He enlisted in the summer of 1943 and immediately had his income reduced to $8.75 per week (was increased to $10.50 per week after three months of training). He was badly wounded on August 10, 1944 in Normandy, France. When the war ended in Europe the first to be repatriated home were the married men with children. Because of his wounds though, he came home on the last troop ship The Queen Mary not the first in February 1946. While recuperating in hospital in January 1945, a V1 or V2 rocket destroyed the London city block on which he had left just minutes earlier. Valour comes in many shapes, deeds and sizes. Lavern was a forty-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 143 in Windsor. He passed away on December 24, 2001.
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