147 www.on.legion.ca FITZGERALD, Francis Joseph “Frank” Frank was born on October 12, 1923, inWillow Bunch, Saskatchewan. His parents were Leo Joseph and Nellie Fitzgerald, who were farming in Saskatchewan. From Kirkfield, Ontario, they returned there when Frank was a child. Frank was one of twelve children and left school in Grade 8, immediately beginning work as a farmer for his father, and also as a lumberman in the winter. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) on October 5, 1943, in Toronto with the Royal Canadian Artillery as a Gunner. He arrived in the United Kingdom on May 7, 1944, embarking for France on August 11. Frank joined the 12th Field Regiment on August 16, 1944 “In The Field”, serving with them until June 20, 1945. He returned to Canada after hostilities and was discharged on June 27, 1946. He married Doris McGuire in February 1947 and they raised seven children. He worked on the DEW Line while the family moved to Lindsay, he joined Uniroyal Tire in Lindsay retiring in 1987. A proud member of the United Rubber Workers Union Local 759 and was a member of Sir Sam Hughes Branch #67 of The Royal Canadian Legion in Lindsay. He passed away on October 20, 2010, in Peterborough and is interned at Our Lady of Christians Cemetery, Kirkfield. FLEMING, Donald Mack Donald was born in Ivanhoe, Ontario on October 28, 1887, the son of Nicholas Fleming and Charlotte Bronson. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) with the 48th Highlanders out of Ivanhoe in 1915 at the age of seventeen. He soon found himself in the mud of wartime France where he served on the Aire, Ypres, and Vimy fronts. Discharged in Quebec City on May 2, 1919, he later recounted: “I was supposed to be mounted infantry, but the only horse I ever saw was dead. I dug trenches all across France and one morning in 1918 was shot in the thigh when going over the top in Aire. My good buddy from Ivanhoe, Billy French, was with me.” Living the rest of his life in Ivanhoe and area, Donald died on November 22, 1988. He received a military pension of only $3.18 a month until he reached the age of 65. FOREMAN, David George David was born in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba on April 4, 1898. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) in Toronto on April 15, 1917 with the 182nd OS Battalion. His unit boarded SS Justicia for the journey across the ocean, arriving in Liverpool on May 3, 1917, where he was moved to W Sandling and transferred to the 3rd Canadian Reserve Battalion. He transferred again to the Central Ontario Regiment 4th Bn, arriving in France on September 8, 1917 and the battlefield on November 17, 1917. He was caught in a bomb blast which shattered his left leg and hip on July 20, 1918. He died of his injuries on September 29, 1918 and was buried at Bucouoy Road Cemetery in France. David George Foreman is commemorated on Page 409 in the First World War Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. We Will Remember Them Ontario Command
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