135 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND FOXON, Thomas George Thomas was born in Leighton Buzzard, England on February 17, 1889, to George Foxon and Mary (Chandler). He had five siblings; Jim, Ken, Leonard, Floss and Dorothy. A machinist by trade, he immigrated to Canada in 1910 and worked in Preston, Tillsonburg, and the Westinghouse Co. in Hamilton, Ontario. Thomas enlisted on February 21, 1916 and was assigned to the 120th Battalion of Hamilton. He was to sail to Liverpool on the SS Empress of Britainon August 14, 1916 with his brother Leonard but missed the trip. Thomas was never found and released on July 31, 1916. When his brother returned after the war, he tried desperately to find Tom. He wrote letters to the Salvation Army, Veterans Affairs and Missing Persons Bureaus in Canada and the USA but to no avail. He never gave up hope, and when Leonard died in December 1965, there was still no trace of Tom. Leonard’s daughter, Elsie, and granddaughters, Ellen and Nancy, have continued the search with the help of Ancestry and DNA, hoping to finally find out what happened to Tom. FREVE, Gerrard C. Gerrard was born on May 23, 1922, in Mattawa, Ontario. He enlisted in the Canadian Army on August 8, 1940 and served with the Algonquin Regiment as a dispatch rider in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe during World War II. Private Freve was discharged on September 10, 1945. He was awarded the 19391945 Star, the France and Germany Star and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Hornepayne Branch 194. Gerrard passed away on June 21, 2013. FRIED, Kenneth Laverne Kenneth was born in New Dundee, Ontario, on September 17, 1920, to Laverne andAgnes along with eight siblings: Gordon, Grace, John, Beulah, Dorothy, Lorne, Harrison and Elva. He was the youngest of nine children. He attended the local public school in Roseville and worked on the home farm. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) on December 9, 1942, with the Essex Scottish Regiment and was put through an extensive training program in Camp Borden, New Market, and Chatham. After his trip to England, his unit was moved to the Western Front with the Canadian Army where they took part in action in the Netherlands where he was killed in action on March 8, 1945. He is buried in Groesbeek Canadian Military Cemetery in the Netherlands. Lance Corporal Kenneth Laverne Fried is commemorated on page 516 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, Ottawa.
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