333 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND SMITH, Frederick James Frederick was born in Chatham, Ontario on August 13, 1896. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) on March 27, 1915 and served overseas with 160th Bruce Battalion. He was medically discharged on July 7, 1916. Frederick passed away in 1943. SMITH, James Lorne James was born in Penetang, Ontario in 1916. He was rejected by the navy because of night blindness and joined the Merchant Navy in 1942 during World War II. He was serving as a wheelsman aboard SS Lorient, a coal carrier, when it was torpedoed in convoy on the Atlantic on May 5, 1943 and he perished. SMITH, Henry Maxwell Henry was born on July 9, 1919, in East York, Ontario where he lived most of his life. The family home, in later years, was located at 199 Cosburn Ave, immediately to the east of Howe’s grocery store. He enlisted with the RCAF on April 4, 1941, and went through training near Guelph, Ontario. Pilot Officer Smith flew in a Lancaster II as an air gunner with the 426 Squadron of Bomber Command based at Linton-on-Ouse,Yorks. His ship was shot down on August 18, 1943 and crashed two miles south of Greifswald during a raid on the Peenemunde Experimental Station. Along with his fellow crew mates, except one survivor who was captured, he was initially interred in Tutlow, Germany. After the war, along with his crew members, he was moved to The War Graves Cemetery in Berlin, Germany. REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
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