423 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND STOTT, Andrew Andrew was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on April 8, 1893. He was a Scottish farm labourer when he enlisted in the Army on January 12, 1916. He served with the Oxford’s Own 168th Battalion duringWorldWar I. He was married to a Tillsonburg girl. While serving as a Sapper with the 11th Field Company, he was killed on October 19, 1917 in Belgium. STRATFORD, Pat Pat was born in London, England on October 15, 1923. She enlisted on March 30, 1941 with the Women’s Land Army United Kingdom for WorldWar II. At the time of enlisting, she was a seventeen- year-old city girl from Leicester, England. She joined to replace the young men who had left their farms to fight overseas. She had never milked a cow or driven a tractor, but she quickly learned. She loved the early spring morning when new calves were born. Her days were long rising at 5:30AM for milking, then working in the fields until dusk. She once drove a tractor too close to a haystack and set it on fire. When she married Ralph, she left the Land Army, but it was a wonderful chapter in her life. Pat was discharged on December 20, 1944. Pat now resides in Almonte, Ontario. STRATFORD, H. Ralph Ralph was born in Wigston Parva, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, on July 7, 1923. He enlisted as an airframe apprentice in August 1939 and joined the Air Force in December 1943. Ralph was assigned to the Lancaster Serving Section Pathfinder Force, served in the United Kingdom from August 1939 to January 1946, and in Mombasa, Kenya from February 1946 to August 1946. Ralph had no direct combat, so no medals were sought. He was discharged in September 1945. Ralph now resides in Almonte, Ontario with his wife Pat.
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