475 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND WHITAKER, Donald Fielden Donald was born on October 10, 1915, to Frank Lewis and Lilly Whitaker of Waterloo, Ontario. He attended Ridley College and found work as a salesman. He enjoyed swimming, golf and badminton and had a love for flying. Donald joined the Air Force in September 1940 and was a Flying Instructor at the Royal Canadian Air Force #9 Elementary Flying Training School in St Catharines, Ontario. On November 23, 1940, Sergeant Whitaker was killed as a result of an airplane crash just south of the training school in a flying field. His ashes have been placed below the floor of the Ridley College Chapel in St. Catharines, Ontario. Sergeant Whitaker is gratefully remembered today as a “Son of Waterloo” and his picture hangs on the memorial Wall in the City Hall in Waterloo, Ontario. WIDGER, William Joseph “Bill” William was born on August 13, 1904 in Dawlish, Devonshire, England. Born a farmer, Bill was a handyman with many skills. He had come to Canada as a nineyear-old before World War I. He was to lose two brothers during the Great War. He signed up in 1939 with the RCAF and was called up in 1940. His training was as an Airframe Mechanic-Technician and tasked to the British Air Commonwealth training program, in Calgary. He trained at number 4 Bombing and Gunnery School, Fingal, Ontario to the #4 OTU Summerside in 1942 manning and maintaining a Squadron of Hurricanes. As a flight sergeant, he worked on the BiPlanes, Lysanders, Ansons, DC 3’s, Halifax, Hurricanes and more throughout the war. After World War II, he re-signed as a Flight Sergeant and went to war with Canada again this time the KoreanWar as a member of 426 Squadron. He was part of the Airlift from Lachine to Tacoma to Japan and back, flying North Stars. Bill retired from the RCAF in September 1956 with the following medals: Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal 1939-1945, 1939-45War Medal, United Nations Service Medal for Korea, and Canadian Forces’ Decoration. WHITE, Robert Norman Robert was born in Waterloo, Ontario on July 3, 1921. He enlisted in the Canadian Army, RCR on July 3, 1940 and was sent overseas, serving in the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Holland. He was discharged from the army on October 22, 1945. He later decided to make the military his career and enlisted in the RCAF on March 9, 1954, and with his family had postings at bases in Rockcliffe, Ontario; Namao, Alberta; Zweibrücken, Germany and back to Uplands in Ottawa, Ontario for his final posting. He was discharged on December 31, 1971. Robert joined The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 240 and was a member for 33 years until his passing on March 18, 2015.
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