133 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND DUNN, Seem Hazelip Seem was born in Hillsdale, Ontario, on December 17, 1895. He was the son of George Alexander and Mary Dunn. By the time World War I began, he resided in the nearby village of Coldwater where he enrolled in the Army (Regular Force) on March 16, 1916. He joined the 157th Battalion (Simcoe Foresters), Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was 21 years old and single. He listed his trade as a farmer and had no previous military experience. Private Seem Dunn sailed to England on October 17, 1916. After some training in England, he landed in France on December 1, 1917, assigned to the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion, part of the 1st Canadian Division. Seem suffered multiple gunshot wounds on the hips and knee on September 19, 1917. He returned to Canada after the war for demobilization and was discharged on April 6, 1919. He later joined the Royal Canadian Legion with Branch 80 in Midland, Ontario. Seem passed away on January 29, 1938. He is buried in St. John’s Anglican Cemetery in Craighurst, Ontario. DUNNINGTON, George Henry George was born on November 21, 1896, in Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, to John and Martha (Robinson) along with two brothers, John Leonard and William Robinson. The family immigrated to Canada in 1905 and were living in Linwood, Ontario. George was working as a painter when he enlisted with the 118th Battalion on December 17, 1915. His unit finally left Canada on November 20, 1917, arriving in England on December 7, 1917. He was posted to Seaford and transferred to the Canadian Machine Gun Pool for extra training before being sent to France on June 21, 1918. Nine months later, the Canadian Forces were being demobilized and George was on his way home. He boarded the HMTS Empress on April 26, 1919. L/C George Henry Dunnington was discharged on May 5, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario. George married Mary (Townsend) and they raised two children, Mary Noreen and Robert James. George died on January 16, 1985 and is buried in the Avondale Cemetery in Stratford, Ontario. DUNNING, Jeffrey Leonard Jeffrey was born in Thistletown, Ontario on May 4, 1915. He enlisted in the Navy (Regular Force) on June 10, 1942 and served on many vessels with the RCNR on the High Seas, Atlantic, Pacific, English Channel, North Sea, France, and Germany during World War II. Jeffrey received the 1939-1945 Star and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. The last ship he served on was the HMS Uganda, where on May 7, 605 of 907 crew voted not to continue with the war as they volunteered for “hostilities only” against Germany. En route to Canadian waters, the crew heard the atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan, where they had just left. Six days later Japan surrendered. Jeff was a knot specialist, who was offered a teaching job in Halifax. He was discharged on December 4, 1945. Jeffrey was an eleven-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 286.
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