491 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND SNOWDEN, William William was born on June 15, 1898 in Parkhill, Ontario. His mother was Jenny Jackson. He enlisted in the Army on December 4, 1915, joining the 135th Battalion. He arrived in England in August 1916 on the SS Olympic. William was transferred to the 125th Battalion and served in France in March 1918 with the Canadian Machine Corp. William was in contact with shell gas and was in hospital. He arrived back in Canada on the HMT Scotian and was discharged in April 1919. He married Margaret Holmes. William passed away in 1974 and is buried at the Arkona Cemetery, Ontario. SPITTAL, William Robert William was born on May 22, 1948 in Hamilton, Ontario. He enlisted with the Army as a peacekeeper on June 23, 1966 and was sent to Gagetown, New Brunswick with Black Watch then to Borden for Tank, Gunnery, and Mines explosives, Booby Traps. He was posted to Petawawa with the 8th Canadian Hussars in Fall of 1968; then to West Germany with NATO in 1970 and then over to Royal Canadian Dragons. He was promoted then went to Nijmegen, Holland. He walked 100 miles in four days, three years in a row to remember Canadians killed in World War II. He was posted back to Petawawa in December 1971. He was honourably released medically on March 4, 1973 receiving the Special Service Medal with NATO Bar. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Pembroke Branch 72 for ten years and has been a member of Dunnville Branch 142 for over 25 years. He received awards from Ontario Premier and Local WMP for twenty years of Volunteer Service. During Service he also had a bad back injury as well as losing a lot of his hearing in both ears. He was poisoned with agent orange and is still suffering from the side effects. SPARKS, James William “Jim” Jim was born in South Porcupine, Ontario on August 5, 1941. He enlisted with the Algonquin Armoured Regiment, “D” Squadron, in Timmins in 1959, and completed both some basic training and some unit training - tank driving course (Sherman tanks) with the Algonquin student militia that summer at the Timmins Armoury. In September 1961, Jim registered at Waterloo College where he was accepted in The Canadian Officer Training Corps. After two years of summer training with RCSIGS at Vimy Barracks, Kingston, he left the Corps and returned to teaching, arriving at Erin District High School in September 1967. Here he became a training officer in #2620 Erin District High School Army Cadet Corps. In 1974, Jim joined the 11th Field Regiment Band at Guelph. He remained with the Band until his discharge in 1981. Still teaching at EDHS, Jim finally moved to Erin Village in 1976, and there joined The Canadian Legion Erin Branch 442 where he is still a member.
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