37 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND BARD, Donald A. Donald was born on July 26, 1926, in Guelph, Ontario. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 and served in the High Seas during World War II. Donald received his discharge in 1946. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Lion’s Head Branch 202 for 14 years. Donald passed away on October 4, 2013. BARNETT, James James was born in 1906 in Stockport, United Kingdom. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) in 1940 and served with the Royal Rifles of Canada as a Padre in Hong Kong. He was a prisoner of war for 44 months and testified in 1946 at the International War Crimes trial in Japan. He was discharged in 1960. On retirement, he served as rector in Sorel then at St. Bartholemew’s in Ottawa. James resided in Ottawa from 1960 until his death on November 18, 1984. BARNARD, Frederick G. Fred was born on April 13, 1921, and grew up in East York (Toronto). At the age of twenty, he enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) with the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada in 1941. After two and a half years of intensive training, Fred travelled to Portsmouth, England, where he joined thousands of other soldiers boarding ships to take them into the English Channel in advance of boarding their Assault Landing Crafts for D-Day. On June 6, 1944, Fred and brother Don were crouched down along with other soldiers in the 12th Platoon, B Company, about six men apart from each other, as they approached Juno Beach, Nan White Sector at Bernières-surMer. As the front ramp dropped, Fred yelled, “Give ‘em hell, Don”, and the brothers jumped into waist deep water. Those were the last words ever spoken between the brothers, as Don was killed in the assault. Fred went on to fight in the fierce battle to take Carpiquet Airport, and shortly after in the Liberation of Caen. In the Quesnay Woods, Fred was seriously wounded by shrapnel in the neck, shoulder and foot. After five months of convalescence in England, Fred returned to Canada. Fred was living in Uxbridge, ON at the time of his death on August 23, 2019. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Uxbridge Branch 170 for 24 years.
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