469 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND SWANT, Frederick “Fred” Fred was born in Sebastopol Township, Renfrew County, Ontario on March 13, 1885. He signed up on March 29, 1918 in the Army in with the 2nd Eastern Ontario Regiment. He landed in England on June 5, 1918 and was transferred to the Canadian Forestry Corps. He served in Canada and England during World War I. After his discharge on July 12, 1919, he married Emma Louise Schultz. He lived and worked in Arnprior and North Bay before settling near Eganville to farm. He was a member of Eganville Royal Canadian Legion Branch 353. Fred passed away on August 12, 1969. TAPPING, Clarence Bud Bud was born in Waterloo, Ontario on July 3, 1925. He enlisted in the Army on February 9, 1944 with the Essex Scottish. He served in Canada, England, Holland and Germany duringWorldWar II. Bud was wounded at the Hochwald Forest fighting in Germany; the German soldier who was to shoot him was in a tree. Bud saw him and tried to protect himself by pulling his helmet down, but the bullet went through his hand, his jaw and ear area. Doctors told him that with a fraction of an inch difference in the trajectory of that bullet he would have died. When Bud was discharged from the hospital to a unit in Camberley in Surrey he met Elizabeth Morrison who was serving in the British Army. They married in Scotland in 1946. They returned to his home in Leamington and later to Toronto. He was discharged from the Army on February 3, 1947. Bud worked for 25 years at Ewart College, a Presbyterian Church in Canada facility on St. George St. Toronto. He was a 37-year Royal Canadian Legion member of Mount Dennis Branch 31. Bud passed away on May 24, 2007. SWOFFER, George Harold William George was born in Belleville on November 18, 1920. He enlisted in the Army on June 14, 1940 and served with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment during World War II. He was discharged on August 8, 1945 and served in England, Sicily, Italy and Holland. He is a thirty-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 78 in Picton.
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