Military Service Recognition Book

225 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND KELL, John A. C. “Jack” Jack was born in 1897 in Clover Hill, Ontario. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy in March 1917 and served during World War I. He married Kathleen Elizabeth Ward on November 2, 1927 and had three daughters. He served as minister in Lemonville, Cochrane, Thistletown, Toronto and Durham. He retired in Owen Sound. He was secretary of Toronto Conference for 25 years and was granted an honorary decorate of Divinity. Jack passed away on August 8, 1988 in Owen Sound, Ontario. KELL, John Robert John was born on February 23, 1898 in Nottawasaga, Ontario. He joined the Canadian Army on January 21, 1916 and served with the 157th Battalion in England before transferring to the 125th Battalion in December 1916 and to the 4th Battalion in May 1917 and serving in England and France. He was poisoned and gassed in 1917 and spent three months in Hospitals in England, however, he remained in combat until the end of the war in 1919. After the war, he did farm work and was employed by Department of Highways for ten years. John passed away on October 28, 1974. KELL, Joseph John Joseph was born on May 28, 1926, in Innisfil, Ontario to John and Pearl Kell. He enlisted in the Canadian Army on September 11, 1944 and served with the Grey and Simcoe Foresters during World War II. He was discharged on July 24, 1945 and went on to work on a cattle ranch in Alberta where he met Helen Duggan. They married in 1949 and had two daughters. Joseph died in a tragic drowning incident in Lake Simcoe in 1955.

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