357 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND THOMSON, Emerson Johnston Emerson, son of George Thomson and Luella McKillop, was born on November 6, 1907 in Cobalt, Ontario. After his parents passed, he was taken in and raised by his McKillop grandmother. He attended school in Flesherton, Ontario. In 1927, he was employed with Conwest Exploration prospecting from Spring to Fall working from British Columbia to New Brunswick with the majority of his career spent in Northern Ontario and Quebec. He retired from the Prospectors and Developers Association in 1972. While in Flesherton, he met and married Isabelle MacMillan and raised a family. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) on February 20, 1942 with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps and was deployed to the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Central Mediterranean. He was injured while serving in Italy and was a Lance Corporal on his discharge on November 16, 1945. Emerson earned the 1939-1945 Star (Service Active Operations), France and Germany Star (Normandy Invasion / D-Day), Italy Star (Service Active Operations), 1939-1945 Victory Medal (Full time service), Defence Medal (Service in Britain), and the Voluntary Enlistment Medal with Clasp (overseas service). He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Flesherton Branch 333. Emerson passed away on June 22, 1988. TIPPING, Percy George Percy was born in the city of Orillia, Ontario on April 19, 1895. He was the son of George Thomas and Alice Harriet (Leaper) Tipping. On January 5, 1916, Percy enrolled in the Army (Regular Force) in Orillia with the 157th Overseas Battalion (Simcoe Foresters) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was 21 years old and single. He listed his trade as a machinist and had no previous military experience. Private Tipping sailed on the SS Cameronia to arrive in London, England on October 28, 1916. After some training in England, he was assigned to a front-line unit and on April 28, 1917, landed in France to fight with the 116th Battalion. He suffered a shrapnel wound to his right arm on August 16 of that year, but later returned to duties. At the end of the war, he was repatriated to Canada and discharged on March 28, 1919. Upon his return, he moved back with his family in the village of Coldwater, Ontario. He passed away in Duncan, BC on August 31, 1983. He is resting at the Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens in Nanaimo. TOMASO, Dominic Luigi “Tom” Tom was born in Belleville, Ontario on December 3, 1945. He enrolled in the Royal Canadian Artillery on May 1, 1963, in Shilo, MB and then posted to 2RCHAWinnipeg. He was posted to Fort Prince of Wales, Deilinghofen, Germany in January 1964; to CFB Gagetown in February 1967; promoted to Bombardier and posted to Air OP Troop; to 1RCHA Germany in July 1969. He was promoted to Master Bombardier in August 1973 and posted to Training Support Battery in 1974. Tom was promoted to Sergeant in 1975, posted to 2RCHA in March 1976; to Artillery School in 1977 as Instructor; promoted to Warrant Officer in 1978; posted to 1RCHA Germany in 1980; promoted to MWO in 1982; posted to 2RCHA in July 1985; then did a tour of Cyprus. He returned to Petawawa and promoted to CWO in 1988 and was posted to Forces Mobile Command, St. Hubert as Master Gunner in Residence. He was posted to Ottawa in 1990; was a Career Manager until 1991; then was posted to 2RCHA Petawawa as RSM. The regiment was deployed to Cyprus in 1993. In 1994, he was posted to DLR-2 NDHQ Ottawa, and in 1996, to the NCMPD Project. He retired on May 5, 1998. CWO Tomaso was appointed to the Order of Military Merit and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. He is an active member of The Royal Canadian Legion Orleans Branch 632.
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