259 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND MacRINER, Alfred Walter Alfred was born on July 7, 1925, in Toronto, Ontario. He left his mailroom job at the CIBC to enlist in the Royal Canadian Navy on August 16, 1943 and served as a stoker on destroyer HMCS Iroquois in the theatres of Canada, North Sea and United Kingdom. The Iroquois was part of Operation Kinetic and was responsible for destroying the enemy convoys leaving the Bay of Biscay. In October 1943, the Iroquois became involved in the Murmansk Run, as convoy escorts, sailing in the winter in almost constant darkness and harsh Arctic ice, with attacks from the German Air Force, Navy and U-boats to deliver war materials to the Soviet Union. The Iroquois escorted Winston Churchill and also Prince Olaf from Norway. He was discharged in December 1945. He later became the Manager of the Securities Department at Head Office. Alfred passed away on February 11, 1999. MacRINER, Robert A. Robert was born in England on February 3, 1870. He enlisted in the Canadian Army on September 3, 1915 and trained with the 76th Overseas Battalion CEF. He arrived in Liverpool on May 5, 1916 and was transferred to the 36th Battalion on July 9, 1916. He served in Britain until March 1918. His sixteen-year-old son, Alfred, was also serving in the Army. Both father and son sent their monthly pay home to support their family of eight living in Midland, Ontario. He was discharged on March 10, 1918. Robert passed away in 1946. MAH, Dennis James Dennis was born in Vancouver, BC on September 9, 1947. Two days after contacting the recruiting centre in Vancouver, he received a call informing him that there was an opening for a Photo Tech and to go to Jericho Beach to enlist in the RCAF on July 4, 1967. During the following 35 years, he served on HMCS Yukon, Annapolis, Huron, and Algonquinduring four tours of NATO’s Standing NATO Forces Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT) as the Squadron staff photographer. During those seventeen months, Dennis witnessed a revolution in Portugal and a Cyprus War in 1974. He covered a helicopter crash, took the helm and steered a ship, stood watch for icebergs, loaded heavy shells. Within a year, he was the last official military photographer with 1 Canadian Airborne Regiment at Griesbach Barracks in Edmonton. He earned his American JumpWings in Fort Lewis, Washington and attended Mountain School in Kananaskis, AB. He was one of the last to be repatriated from BadenSollingen, Germany in 1993 when the base closed. He served seven months in UN Emergency Force 2 (UNEF 2), in a Public Affairs role. He was one of the original members of the newly formed Combat Camera in 1999. He was released on July 27, 2002. Dennis is a 23-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Kanata Branch 638.
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