303 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND KNACK, Waldemar W. “Wally” Wally was born in Cambridge, Preston, Ontario on May 22, 1915 to HenryWilliam and Catherine (Werlich) Knack along with siblings Angus and Valeria. He served overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. After the war, Wally married Edith M. (Soutar) and they raised two children, Bruce and Patricia. He was proud to be a Preston boy, born, educated, married, worked at Eastern Steel Products. He was a member of St. Peters Lutheran Church, The Royal Canadian Legion Preston Branch 126. On March 7, 1987, Wally passed away at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital at the age of 77. He is buried at the Parklawn Cemetery in Preston. KNIGHT, Eugene Russel Eugene was born on May 12, 1896, in Petrolia, Ontario. He enlisted in the Army on January 31, 1916, serving with the 153rd, 161st and 58th Battalion of C.O.M.F. On October 26, 1917, he received a gunshot wound to the chest while in Touen, France. Eugene wrote his family describing how he was shot: “We had gone ‘Over the Top’ and this ‘pill box’ was very hard to get. The boys had followed the verruga past it and they were picking them off from behind. When I was hit, I fell into a shell hole full of water. I laid in the water for a half hour. I began to crawl a bit and walk a bit. I beat it out then to the light railway, a distance of about four miles. No one knows how I did it, but I was near all in. It is such a job to carry a man out of there and there were so many, you have to wait a long time to be carried. When the shells were bursting all around it is a good plan to make yourself scarce.” Eugene was discharged on August 13, 1918 and returned to Brussels, Ontario. He passed away on July 31, 1981. KNACK, William Henry “Bill” Bill was born in St. Catharines, Ontario on February 4, 1920 to Amiel and Minnie (Morrow) Knack along with one sister Eileen. On September 13, 1939, Bill was one of the first to join World War II by joining the Army with the Highland Light Infantry, 11th Field Ambulance, RCAMC CASF. After additional training in England, Bill was shipped across the English Channel into the war zone. He was involved at the Battle of Dieppe in August 1942 and was mentioned in Dispatches for bravery, and again in Normandy at the Battle for Caen, bravery for retrieving injured soldiers from the battlefield, at one point passing out from exhaustion. After serving in Canada, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, Bill was discharged on June 27, 1945. Bill married Shirley (Gellatly) and they had one child, James. He was an insurance agent and the assistant manager at LCBO and enjoyed bridge, tennis and travelling. He joined The Royal Canadian Legion Waterloo Branch 530 in 1958. Bill passed away on January 15, 1999 at Pinehaven Long Term Care at age 78 and is buried at Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener. His name has been inscribed on plaque #6 of the Waterloo Legion Wall of Remembrance.
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