481 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND TREVORS, Burton E. Burton was born in Chatham, New Brunswick on June 12, 1930. He enlisted with the Canadian Armed Forces in Montreal in spring 1950, joining the Royal Canadian Regiment. In 1951, after training in Canada, Burton was deployed to Korea on active duty. Among other duties, with the 1st and 2nd Battalion RCR, he was a skilled wireless field telephone operator. Burton returned to Canada and was stationed in London and Camp Borden. He became an instructor and supervisor. Burton particularly enjoyed parachuting, flying (member of Borden Flying Club and receive his pilot license) and teaching. After serving two years in Germany, he returned to Canadian Base Petawawa. Burton retired from the Canadian Armed Forces on June 12, 1980. He retired as Sergeant after thirty years of service to Canada. Burton passed away on February 1, 2019 in his 89th year with 63 years of service to The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 220, Shelburne, ON. TURBITT, David Gordon “Dave” Dave was born on September 10, 1921, the second oldest of five children, on the family farm four miles outside Listowel, Ontario. On September 30, 1942, Dave joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and became a tail gunner with the 419 Moose Squadron flying in Halifax and later Lancaster bombers. Dave flew 34 bombing missions over Europe, eventually rising to the rank of Flying Officer. He then spent a year training new gunners before volunteering to serve in the Pacific theatre. In Canada en route to Honolulu the war ended with the dropping of two atomic bombs and he was discharged on September 11, 1945. Dave went on to finish high school before obtaining his Pharmacy degree at the University of Toronto. He met and married his wife, Anne, another Pharmacist and they moved to Listowel in 1956 to open a pharmacy they operated until 1988 while raising their three children. Dave was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 259 Listowel until he passed away November 8, 2008. TUPLING, Bruce Elmer Bruce was born on July 18, 1926 in Honeywood, Ontario. In 1944, at age eighteen, Bruce enlisted in the army in Toronto. He was sent to Newmarket, Ontario for basic training and onto Camp Borden for advanced training. With more than 34,000 German Prisoners interred in Canada the camps were mainly guarded by the Veteran Guards of Canada. The Veteran Guards consisted mostly of World War I Veterans, too old for battlefront duty. Bruce and his younger comrades were dispatched to supplement the older guards in the more remote camps. After being posted to North Bay, Bruce was then sent to a bush camp near Wawa, Ontario. One of Bruce’s memories was in 1946 when he and six other guards marched 107 German prisoners 33 miles into Wawa to entrain for repatriation to Germany. One unfortunate incident during his military service was a winter traffic accident when he suffered a broken wrist and both of his knees were badly injured. Bruce Tupling was discharged in 1946 and returned to civilian life as a heavy duty mechanic and a driver for Denny Bus Lines for eighteen years. Bruce has been a Royal Canadian Legion member for 62 years and is presently a member of Branch 442 in Erin, Ontario.
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