231 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND KENNEDY, Leo Theodore Leo was born in Corkery, Ontario on May 22, 1917, to Hugh Kennedy and Henrietta Carroll. He married Mary Kathleen Lesway on September 22, 1939, and they had one child together before Leo joined the Army (Regular Force) in late 1939 with 23rd Field Ambulance RCAMC – PAFF. He deployed overseas to England where he was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945 and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. He was present at D-Day and returned to Canada where he was discharged in September 1945. He resided in Appleton with his wife, and they went on to have six more children. He was employed at the Collie Woolen Mill in Appleton, Ontario and as a public servant. He passed away on January 14, 1972 and was entombed at St. Mary’s Vault in Corkery, Ontario. KOCH, Robert Robert was born in Kitchener, Ontario on February 9, 1927, to Edna (Broderect) andWesley Koch. He had eleven siblings. He attended King Edward Public School and Kitchener Collegiate Institute. Robert joined the Merchant Navy and served in Norway during World War II. Robert was married to Christine Leier (1954) and Marjorie Koch (1971), and had two children: Wayne Robert, who was born (and sadly passed away) in 1955 and Grace Helen, who was born in 1956 and two grandchildren, Jasmin Christine and Lennon Werner born in 1981 and 1983. During his lifetime, Robert worked on the assembly line at McBrien Baggage, mined at Keno Hill Mines inYukon, was a driver for the Sunshine Uniform Supply and Workwear Limited, and was a safety shoe salesman at Collins. During his leisure time, Robert enjoyed golfing and bowling. He joined The Royal Canadian Legion in 1961 and was a member of Waterloo Branch 530 for fifty years. Robert passed away on February 10, 2011, at the age of 84 and is buried at Woodland Cemetery in Kitchener. KENT, Frederick Bentley Frederick was born on September 8, 1870, in London, Ontario. He later married his wife Emily and was listed on his attestation paper as a miller. When the Great War began, they were residing in Kentvale, Ontario a small settlement on St. Joseph Island in northern Ontario. On October 16, 1917, at the age of 47, he joined the 256 Railway Construction Battalion, CEF. In previous years, he had done some service with the 97th Algonquin Rifles. In 1917, he was in France or Belgium and on December 6, 1917, he was caught under a heavy artillery bombardment of a narrow gauge rail line supplying the foreword troops. The shelling had served the line and the locomotive and cars (including ammunition) could not move. Volunteering, he and two other comrades gathered the appropriate tools and under bombardment repaired the line and got the train moving out of danger. For his gallant action he was awarded the Military Medal for “bravery in the field” in March 1918.
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