333 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND MULHOLLAND, Gerald Donald Gerald was born on November 10, 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario. He enlisted in the Army on August 14, 1950 and served in Petawawa; Fort Lewis, USA; Wainwright, AB; Japan and Korea with the 2nd Battalion and 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment and Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps. Gerald has been a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 153 in Tillsonburg for 68 years. MURDOCH, Robert Denis Robert was born in Toronto, Ontario on July 9, 1929. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1949 onboard HMCS Swansea which he served in the High Seas and North Atlantic until his discharge in 1952. Robert also enlisted in 1961 with the Reserves and served onboard River-Class Frigate (K328) until discharge in 1966. Following his Naval service, Robert became a Chief Engineer and managed the plant that made the Avro Arrow. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Scarborough Branch 13. Robert passed away on December 30, 2017. MUNROE, Jack Alexander Jack was born in Boulardarie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia on June 26, 1873. He immigrated to Butte, Montana in 1885 with two older brothers and returned to Canada and to Northern Ontario where he discovered silver and founded the community of Elk Lake in 1906. After serving as its first mayor in 1909, it was off to the Porcupine mining camp to perform heroic deeds in the fire of 1911. With the outbreak of World War I, although 41 years of age and a wealthy man, he enlisted in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in August 1914. Accompanied by his faithful Scotch Collie ‘Bobbie Burns’, the PPCLI Regimental Mascot, he landed in England on October 15. He then became the first Canadianborn soldier to set foot on French soil on December 21. Wounded on June 16, 1915, near Armentieres, France resulting in the incapacitation of his right arm, Jack Munroe returned home to Canada with Bobbie Burns. He then authored “Mopping Up”, a book that was deemed to be a classic account of that war. He married Colina Craine on September 5, 1923. Jack passed away on February 12, 1942 of cancer and is buried in the Craine Plot, Acton, Ontario.
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