495 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND STILES, William Clarance William was born on December 25, 1921, in Brussels, Ontario. In 1942, he graduated with a DVM from Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph and immediately married Edyth Reeds. William enlisted in 1942 in the Navy, received basic training in Hamilton and Halifax. After basic training, he served as a seaman on HMCS Canso, a minesweeper escorting convoys taking crucial supplies across the North Atlantic to Britain and Europe. When HMCS Canso returned briefly to New Brunswick in 1944 for maintenance, Bill left the Navy to provide service as a veterinarian instead. In subsequent decades, he served farming communities in four provinces across the country, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion in Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta for a total of 47 years. William passed away on March 15, 1994, in Ponoka, Alberta. STRUB, George Adolph George was born in Bloomingdale, Ontario on December 11, 1892 to Peter and Mary Strub along with four siblings: Winnifred, Eva, Walter and Jerome. Prior to World War I, George’s trade was listed as an ironer. He was very active in the 108th Regiment in Berlin, Ontario with the 108th Band. OnApril 11, 1916, George joined the war effort with the 118th Battalion and was shipped overseas aboard the SS Scandinavian on January 23, 1917. He was taken on strength in Bramshott and on May 17 proceeded across the Channel to France and taken up with the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion. George was hit in the face with shrapnel in the Battle of Passchendaele and rushed to Boulogne Military Hospital. He passed away on November 9, 1917 and is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Military Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France. George will forever be remembered as his name is commemorated on Page 334 of the First WorldWar Book of Remembrance located in the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill. STILES, William Henry “Bill” Bill was born on April 23, 1894, in Brussels, Ontario. On April 7, 1916, he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force 161st Huron Battalion in Brussels. His unit sailed on October 30, 1916 to England for training and he served in France with the 47th Battalion. He received a gunshot wound to the left leg on September 28, 1918, and as a result was declared medically unfit and discharged on March 31, 1919. Following discharge, he returned to his home in Brussels and married Martha Speers on September 3, 1919, in Gorrie, Ontario, they had fourteen children. Bill was the caretaker of the Brussels Post Office and became a rural route Postal Carrier for the Brussels area. Bill was a Charter Member of the BESL, known as The Royal Canadian Legion in Brussels. He was the second president of the Brussels Branch in 1933 and when a new branch was built, he was part of the ribbon cutting ceremony on June 12, 1965. Bill kept busy attending to three garden lots to provide for his large family. He was a hardworking man who loved life, his family, and his country. Bill passed away on July 22, 1967.
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