377 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND McWHIRTER, George Lloyd George was born March 16, in 1932, Stalwart, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Radar Air Technician on July 8, 1951. Following basic training at Clinton Air Base, Ontario, George was stationed in Chatham, NB Air Base where he worked on the Vampire jet aircraft. These were later replaced by the Sabre Jet (F-86). George was transferred to Air Base St. Hubert, Quebec “K” Flight. While there, the Air Force was forming and training 444 Squadron F86’s to join #4 Fighter Wing in Germany. George was assigned to the squadron for the time they were in St. Hubert. After taking a training course, George was transferred to the B25 Squadron Mitchell Bomber in Saskatoon. In 1955, he was transferred to 408 Photo Squadron in Rockway, Ontario where he operated Radar equipment in the back end of Lancaster Bomber, photographing for mapping Canada’s Northland. He spent six years on the DEW line in the Artic travelling from Fox Bay to Tuktoyuktuc as a trouble shooter. George was discharged in 1956. He was a sixty-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Brussels Branch 218. George passed away on February 14, 2021. MENGHETTI, Victor Albert Victor was born in London, England on December 24, 1891, the son of Aristide and Emma Menghetti. He immigrated to Canada in 1906 and was a farm labourer for Edward Maran. Victor enlisted in October 1915 joining the 58th Battalion and sailed to England and on to France. Victor was killed in action on October 8, 1916 and is buried at the Vimy Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Victor’s name is on the War Memorial in West McGillivray. MEADD, Howard Elliott Howard was born on May 11, 1892 in McGillivray Township, Parkhill, Ontario. He was a student in Civil Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Howard enlisted in the Army on October 14, 1917 with the Forestry and Railway Construction Depot. He arrived in England on December 31, 1917, on the Grampian. Howard served in Canada, England, France and Belgium. In January 1918, he returned to Canada on the S.S. Saturnia and was discharged on April 11, 1919. Howard married Beatrice Cornforth. He passed away in 1976 and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Cornwall, Ontario.
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