457 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND SANDS, James Smith James was born in Peterborough, Ontario on September 3, 1921. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in July 1942. He served in England at RAF Winthorpe and RAF Bottlesford with 5 Group Bomber Command. Prior to that, he served in Nassau, Bahamas and Corpus Christie, Texas in the United States of America. James was discharged in December 1945. He put in the first two-way radios in OPP 8 Toronto Fire Department and ran first industrial TV courses in Canada. He was National Service Manager for Philips Electronics for over thirty years. SCHILDKNECHT, Arnold Charles Arnold Charles Schildknecht was born in Bosanquet Township, Port Franks in 1915. He attended Sarnia Collegiate from 1927 to 1930. At wartime, he joined Canadian Merchant Navy and served aboard the SS Indier as Able Seaman. In April 1941, the SS Indier was on route from Philadelphia, New York, Halifax to Glasglow with a cargo of 6,300 tons of steel and general cargo. In the MidAtlantic, Southwest of Iceland, on April 3, 1941, a German U-boat (U-73) fired a torpedo, sunk SS Westpool and at 5:12 fired another torpedo which struck the SS Indier under the bridge causing the ship to sink within one minute. Forty-two of the crew were lost. Arnold was lost at sea; his name is inscribed on the Halifax Memorial in Nova Scotia. His name is also inscribed on the Thedford Cenotaph. SANKEY, Charles Charles was born in London, England on August 4, 1895. He came to Canada to work as a farm labourer. Charles moved to Thedford, Ontario where he enlisted in the Army with the 122nd Battalion, Forestry Corps on December 27, 1915. He sailed to England on SS Olympic. Charles served in France during World War I from June 1917 to April 4, 1919. He sailed home on May 24, 1919 and was discharged the same day.
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