329 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND LOCKREY, William Henry “Bill” Bill was born in 1887 in Lambton County. He was married with two children and worked as a labourer in Thedford, Ontario. He enlisted in the Army on March 11, 1916 to serve in World War I. He was fit but plagued with a childhood hernia. In London, he had a hernia operation however it did not heal correctly. He chose not to have it repaired and was declared as medically unfit. Bill was released on compassionate grounds on August 24, 1917. He reenlisted on February 17, 1919 with the Engineering Depot and was discharged on June 18, 1919. Bill passed away in 1931 and is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in London, Ontario. LOVELACE, John Wilson Spencer “Jack” Jack was born on August 27, 1921, the son of Orley Lovelace and Eva Spencer of Coldwater, Ontario. In July 1942, he enrolled in the Canadian Army in Niagaraon-the-Lake with the Queen’s Own Rifles. He later changed regiment to join The Irish Regiment of Canada. He saw action in the Mediterranean area. He was discharged in March 1946. Jack was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Coldwater Branch 270 and served as President for two terms in 1961 and 1964. He later transferred to Branch 34 in Orillia, where he was instrumental in organizing the “D-Day Dodgers” reunions. Jack was a General Foreman for many years at Dorr-Oliver-Long Limited of Orillia, a company best known for its manufacturing of large scale industrial and mining equipment. Jack passed away at the Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on December 2, 1996. LONG, Clarence Roy Clarence was born in Meaford, Ontario on September 20, 1918 to Alice and Sproule Long. He attended school in Meaford and then the family moved to Derby Township, Ontario. Clarence worked for the Bank of Toronto as a clerk for three years in Owen Sound prior to enlisting on June 18, 1940. He originally joined the Grey and Simcoe Foresters in Owen Sound then transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force on March 26, 1941 and became a navigator. He trained in Toronto Goderich, Trenton and Malton. He was commissioned as an officer in May 1942 and went overseas. He was to be married to an English girl a week before he was reported missing. Clarence was reported missing in action on February 19, 1943 and declared dead one year later by the Department of National Defence on November 17, 1944. Clarence was not supposed to be on that mission but because another airman was ill, he volunteered to take that deadly flight. An extract from official German Totenlists no. 151 confirms the death and stated that his body was washed ashore on February 20, 1943 at Holwerd, Holland. Clarence was buried in Wierum Cemetery in Friesland, Holland on February 24, 1943.
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