203 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND LISCOMBE, Ira “Harry” Harry was born in Omemee, Ontario on June 10, 1893. He joined the CEF during WWI and served with the Royal Canadian Engineers after which he moved to northern Ontario and became a hard rock miner in the gold mines around Larder Lake. This is where he was living when WWII began. He had frozen his feet, lost part of his big toe, had four young children and was 47 years old, but felt compelled to join up. His unit was sent directly to Gibraltar and for the next two and half years, he worked making tunnels in the rock to hold emergency supplies in case of a direct attack. His unit then moved to Europe where they set up Bailey Bridges to temporarily replace those which had been destroyed. He came back to Canada in June 1945 and was discharged a month later. A special medal was awarded to his unit when they left Gibraltar and he has the Angel of Mons Medal fromWorld War I as well as other service medals. Harry passed away on October 9, 1967. LOGAN, Maclaren D. Maclaren was born in Marmora, Ontario on June 21, 1924. He joined the Army in 1941 in Petawawa and served in England and Europe during WWII. He picked up wounded soldiers while driving an ambulance and also rode motorcycles through the lines, carrying messages while being shot at by the Nazis. Logan met his future wife, Kathleen Beatrice Plumley, in Swindon, England in 1942 when he was 15 years old and working in a bomb factory. They both survived the bombing of England and were married in 1946 after which they came to Ontario, Canada and lived in Ottawa, then in Peterborough. Maclaren was discharged in 1954 and he drove trucks and tractor trailers after the war. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Peterborough Branch 52 for twenty years before he passed away on June 8, 2004. LOCKWOOD, Charles Frederick Charles was born on July 27, 1895, in Clinton, Ontario. He was a barber at the time of his enlistment in the Army on January 3, 1916, with the 47th Battalion W.O.R. Private Charles Lockwood served in France and suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and left arm and shoulder in August 1918. He was in hospital and finally was sent home on the SS Grampian and disembarked in St. John’s in February 1919. He was discharged on February 26, 1919. He returned to Clinton, married and had two children. He returned to his trade as a barber and had two barber shops, one in Clinton and one in Blyth. Charles was a charter member of The Royal Canadian Legion Brussels Branch 218 when it was formed in 1931 and was a member for ten years. Charles passed away on December 13, 1960.
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