259 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND LANGRIDGE, Edward Gilroy Edward was born in Preston, Ontario on December 15, 1896. He reported to Valcartier, Quebec base on September 15, 1914 to join the Army with the Canadian infantry Training, 1st Battalion and served during World War I. On October 3, 1914, Edward sailed for England and was assigned to the CASC and sent to France. During a battle on May 8, 1915, Edward was seriously injured by shrapnel to the left thigh and was transferred to the Lichfield Hospital. On February 14, 1916, he was awarded the Good Conduct Badge and on February 27 he was hospitalised with influenza and posted to Whiteley, England to recover. He was reassigned to France where on October 24, 1918 he was promoted to L/Corp. In January 1919, he was granted a fourteen-day leave, returned on January 25. The Canadian Expeditionary Force was starting to demobilize the force and Edward was shipped back to England on April 29. On August 9, 1919, he boarded the SS Lapland, sailed for Canada and was discharged on August 14. Initially Edward joined the Royal Canadian Legion Preston Branch 126, then transferred to Kitchener Branch 50, and then in 1961 he ended up at Waterloo Branch 530. Edward passed away in 1968. LASKEY, Gordon Arthur Gordon was born in St. Catharines, Ontario on July 2, 1929. He enlisted with the Canadian Army on August 20, 1950 and was assigned to Special Force for in Korea. He received the United Nations Service Medal and the Korea Medal. Gordon came home safe after his discharge on August 26, 1953 and worked for the LCBO for thirty years. He married Joyce in 1957 and moved to Welland, Ontario where they raised two children, Tammy and Chris. He was a wonderful father and husband. Gordon and his family went north for two weeks’ vacation every year, and then he bought a trailer and camped along Lake Erie every summer. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Talbot Trail Branch 613 in Fonthill, ON for 41 years and was Past President. Gordon was a devoted family man and passed away April 23, 2010. LASENBA, Earl Stanley Earl was born on July 18, 1911 in a small town in eastern Quebec called Bury. He joined the Army duringWorldWar II with many others from Bury and surrounding area. He served with the Royal Rifles of Canada and spent time in Newfoundland before leaving for Hong Kong in 1941. While in Hong Kong, he was taken prisoner on December 25, 1941 and spent time at Camp Sham Shui Po, North Point, and Ormine. Earl was released as a POW and discharged from military service on February 15, 1946 but he spent much of his civilian life in the hospital. Tragically, he was killed in a head-on collision a mile from his home on June 17, 1947, leaving a wife and three children to mourn his passing. He is buried in the Bury Cemetery and has a head stone provided by the Hong Kong Veterans Association.
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