331 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND LOVELACE, Orley Wilson Orley was born in Rosemount, Ontario, on November 24, 1897, the son of John William and Rose Ann Lovelace. On February 17, 1917, he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Waubaushene, Ontario. He was nineteen years old and single. He listed his trade as farmer and had no previous military experience. Private Lovelace sailed on the HMS Metagama to arrive in Liverpool, England, on May 14, 1917. After getting some training in England, he landed in France on November 16, 1917, and was later assigned to the 1st Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps. After the war ended, he was repatriated to Canada and discharged on May 5, 1919. He was a founding member of The Royal Canadian Legion Coldwater Branch 270 of the British Empire Service League when it received its charter in 1935, and he served as its president in 1956. He was a member for 37 years. Orley passed away on June 12, 1972. LOWE (JONES), Elsie Mary Elsie was born on February 9, 1925 in NorthWales. Before signing up on February 14, 1945 at Shrewsbury England, Elsie worked at an aircraft assembly plant building Lancaster and Wellington Bombers. She had tried to sign up earlier but was turned away as she was working in a “Deferred” job. She later got released from that job and was accepted into the Army and reported to Pontefract for basic training, at the barracks of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Her first posting was to Clerical College in London, followed by a posting RASC in Taunton at the HQSW District Southern Command. Before her release from the army, Elsie had other posting. She was discharged on November 20, 1947 and received the War Medal 1939-1945. Elsie and her husband immigrated to Canada joining exservice friends in Port Stanley, in 1948 and then to St. Thomas, Ontario in 1949, where she remained after joining the Staff at St. Thomas Public Library in 1950, remaining there until her retirement. She and her husband continue to reside in St. Thomas. They have two sons. LOVERING, Mervyn Lloyd George Mervyn was born in the Township of Matchedash, near Coldwater, Ontario, on February 7, 1917, the son of William Drew and Ethel Mary Lovering. After graduating from the Coldwater Continuation School and working on a farm for a few years, he joined the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission to work as a lineman. During the World War II, he enrolled with the Royal Canadian Air Force on December 16, 1941. Mervyn trained as an Air Gunner at No. 2 Bombing and Gunnery School in Mossbank, Saskatchewan, in the fall of 1943. He was later given an officer commission. Flying Officer Lovering was eventually posted to Bomber Command with No. 50 Squadron (Royal Air Force), operating from Skellingthorpe, England. His last flight was on July 29, 1944, when he and his crew took off aboard their Avro Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Stuttgart, Germany. During the flight they were intercepted by German night fighters and their aircraft crashed near the village of Huchenfeld, Germany. There were no survivors among the crew of seven. Flying Officer Lovering is buried at the Durnbach War Cemetery in Germany.
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