249 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND HASSARD, Kenneth Edward “Ken” Ken was born on February 1, 1925 in Acton, Ontario. He served during World War II as a Radio Artificer on HMS Ferret at the Royal Naval Base in Northern Ireland in 1944, and HMCS Sioux in 1945. Ken worked with the A.V. ROE putting Radar in CF-100 and CF-104 Jets, then with the CanadianWestinghouse Guided Missiles called “Velvet Glove” Program. Ken served in Northern Ireland and the High Seas being discharged in March 1946. Ken passed away on July 7, 2002. HATCHMAN, John John was born on December 21, 1884 in London, England. He was one of the first men to enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces on August 28, 1914. He had previously served four years with the Royal Scots Greys in the United Kingdom and left his job as a police constable in Waterloo, Ontario to join Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. John was killed at the Battle of Frezenberg, in Belgium, on May 8, 1915. This was part of the second Battle of Ypres where successive German attacks had pushed back the British lines, causing the Patricia’s left flank to be exposed, and threatening to collapse the entire Commonwealth division line. Despite constant attacks and bombardments by the Germans, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry held the line. When the Regiment was relieved at Frenzenberg, of over 1000 men, only four officers and one 150 soldiers remained. John Hatchman was one of the seventy missing in action, presumed dead, from the battle that killed 95 and wounded 200. In 1920, his widow, Lilian received a War Service Gratuity of $107.19. John’s name appears on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Panel, alongside of 54,606 who died in Belgium and have no know grave. HASTINGS, David “Scotty” David was born on November 25, 1911, in Ochiltree, Scotland, immigrated to Canada in 1925, and settled in London. He married a woman from Brussels, settled in the town. He enlisted on September 8, 1939 in the 100th Field Battery of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery Active Service Force in Listowel, Ontario. David was sent overseas in June 1941 and joined with the 1st Battalion, Canadian Scottish Regiment. Gunner David Hastings fought in the Battle of Courseullessur-Mer and lost many of his Canadian Scottish Regiment “brothers”, 87 casualties, but they inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, as they landed on the beach. David returned to Brussels and was discharged on September 8, 1945. He worked at McDonald Lumber and Joe Brewer Coal, was a town employee and was one of the town’s last constables. David played tenor drum for the Brussels Legion Pipe Band and was a 25-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 218 Brussels. He passed away on March 28, 1974.
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