469 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND WEBSTER, Robert Jr. Robert was born 1919 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He came to Hamilton, Ontario when he was a year old. He was one of the first men to join the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserves in 1939 from Hamilton. He served on Prince David, a converted cruise ship from the West Coast as a signalman and several corvettes in the Atlantic and North Atlantic. He left the navy at the end of WorldWar II in 1945 and became a fireman for the City of Hamilton. WEINSTEIN, Robert James Robert was born on July 22, 1921 in Kitchener, Ontario to Joseph Edgar and Sarah Annie Weinstein. He had one brother namedWilliam and two sisters named Evelyn and Ruth. Robert had interests in zoology and woodworking. He enjoyed swimming, hockey and baseball. Robert worked at BF Goodrich as a tube maker. On June 18, 1940, he enlisted with the Army and was a Private with the Perth Regiment RCIC. Private Weinstein served in Canada, United Kingdom and Italy. He died of sickness while on active duty due toAcute Hepatitis and possiblyYellow Atrophy of the liver. He is buried at the Caserta War Cemetery in Italy. He is gratefully remembered today as a “Son of Waterloo” and his picture hangs on the Memorial Wall in the City Hall in Waterloo, Ontario. WEINSTEIN, Herbert James Herbert James Weinstein was born in Kitchener, Ontario on September 9, 1896 to Peter and Katherine (Hartleib) Weinstein. Prior to World War I, Herbert was working as a machinist. He was drafted under the military service act 1917 and ordered to report on January 3, 1918 to the Western Ontario Regiment, 1st Depot Battalion. He passed his medical, completed his basic training and on February 21, 1918 was shipped to England. On March 4, he was assigned to the #53 Canadian Forestry Corp and posted in Witley. On October 16, 1918, he was transferred to Sunningdale. The Canadian Army was starting to demobilize the CEF and Herbert was transferred back to Witley and then on to Liverpool. He embarked from England on July 2 and arrived in Halifax on July 8 and he was discharged on July 11, 1919. Herbert joined The Royal Canadian Legion Waterloo Branch 530 in August 1963.
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