145 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND GARUS, Bronisław “Bruno” Bruno was born on August 17, 1924, in Witanowicz, Poland. He was arrested by the Germans in May 1941 and sent to Germershiem Rhineland Germany as forced labour. He worked as a butcher until his liberation by allied forces. He remained in the French occupied zone of Germany where he joined a French Army Guard Unit on May 28, 1946 and served until his discharge on September 15, 1947. He immigrated to Canada in July 1949 heading to Ontario where he worked in construction. Bruno was involved in many construction projects across Ontario including Ryerson University and the Pen Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario where he eventually settled. Bruno joined The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 418 in 1954 and became a Life Member in 2005. He participated in the Poppy Campaign every year until he was 94 years old and is still fondly remembered at the Welland Ave Walmart for his support of the Poppy Campaign. For his service and volunteerism, Bruno was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. He was a 66-year member of Polish Veterans Branch 418 of The Royal Canadian Legion. Bruno passed away in January 2020. GASCOE, Earl Alphonse Earl was born on March 20, 1922, in River Rouge, Michigan. His family moved to Windsor, Ontario when Earl was two years old. In 1940, when he was eighteen years old, Earl joined the Canadian Army. He served with the Queen’s Own Rifles in Europe. After his release in 1945, he came back to Windsor, and went to work for the Ford Motor Company. Earl married his wife, Marie, and raised two children. In his spare time, Earl enjoyed going to the Legion to play shuffleboard and cards. He also enjoyed baseball and was a Detroit Tigers fan. Earl passed away on March 25, 2006. He was a proud fifteen-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Windsor Branch 578. GATTINGER, Friston Eugene Friston ‘Eugene’ Gattinger was born on October 13, 1920, in Duff, Saskatchewan, to Jacob J. and Amelia (Haberstock) Gattinger. He was a teacher in Saskatchewan before enlisting in the RCAF (Regular Force) on September 23, 1941, in Regina. Eugene was deployed to the United Kingdom, training and serving in various RAF squadrons as a radar mechanic, before eventually joining the 8th Pathfinder Force. Sergeant Gattinger was discharged on November 6, 1945. In 1949, he married Edith Marguerite McAlpine, and they had two children, Garry and Marney. He farmed in Lemberg, Saskatchewan, before attending the Library School at McGill University in Montreal, in the 1950s. After graduation, he was employed as a librarian at Memorial University, Newfoundland and later at York University, Toronto. He authored a book in 1962: “A Century of Challenge: A History of the Ontario Veterinary College” and earned a Governor General award for poetry in 1967 for his Newfoundland poem “Quattrocentennial”. Eugene passed away on December 10, 2006, in Richmond Hill, Ontario and is buried with his wife, in Pheasant Forks Cemetery, Saskatchewan.
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