295 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND McNAB, Daniel Bowler Daniel was born on May 1, 1886, in Milton Township, Halton, to Dan and Annie McNab. He married Pearl Raines in 1909 and they had a girl and a boy. When he enrolled in the Army (Regular Force) with the 119th Overseas Battalion on January 4, 1916 he was a farmer residing in Richards Landing, a village on St. Joseph Island east of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. After training in Niagara, he sailed for England in August 1916. While in England, Daniel was transferred to the 52nd Battalion, Manitoba Battalion and sent to France in April 1918. He was wounded in October 1917 and gassed in August 1918. He was awarded the Military Medal, British War Medal and Victory Medal. On May 1, 1919, Cpl. Daniel McNab was discharged and the 1921 census shows that he was a policeman in Sault Ste. Marie. Daniel passed away on May 16, 1980, in Vancouver. McPHERSON, James Noble James was born inYorkton, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) in September 1941, and served as a Bombardier in Canada, the United Kingdom, Central Mediterranean and Continental Europe. He was discharged in January 1947. James resided in Brantford, Ontario from 1946 to 1981. McQUEEN, John Alexander “Sandy” Sandy was born in Osprey Township, Ontario on January 11, 1890. He enlisted in the Army in Collingwood, Ontario on April 18, 1916, at the age of 26. He trained at Camp Borden, Ontario and was deployed overseas to Europe in France on September 5, 1917 where he joined the 177th Battalion. He fought in the Battle of Passchendaele, Arras, Hill 60 and Telegraph Hill, where he was shot above his heart and seriously wounded when a bullet lodged in his lung. Due to the bravery of his friend, Mr. Jack Whitten, he was carried from the battlefield and rushed to the hospital where he survived. He returned to France and was training for battle when the war ended in November 1918. Upon his discharge, he returned home to Ontario and married Mabel Culham. They had five children. When World War II began, he joined the Veteran’s Guard in Barrie, Ontario where he watched over German prisoners at various locations in Ontario and Western Canada. He escorted prisoners back overseas four times. While on duty, Sandy would write a letter to Mabel nearly every day. These letters guided her with family and farm decisions until he returned. He was a sixty-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Collingwood Branch. Sandy passed away on November 30, 1985.
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