273 www.on.legion.ca MILNE, Donald James Donald was born in Mannheim, Ontario on June 20, 1915, to George and Alemeda (Bowman) along with five siblings, Alice, Edith, Gladys, Robert and Jessie. Prior to World War II, Donald was employed at Howard Smith Paper mills in Cornwall, Ontario. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) in Cornwall on June 27, 1940, with the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders RCIC and after basic training was shipped overseas. He was moved into France arriving to the front lines during D-Day. He took his platoon and attacked pill box after pill box with such haste that the enemy had no time to retreat, therefore capturing their guns and taking 25 prisoners. One month later on October 11, 1944, he was killed in action and is buried in the Adegem Canadian War Cemetery in Belgium. In 1946, the family posthumously received his Military Medal for outstanding bravery and leadership. Corporal Donald James Milne is commemorated on page 349 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. MILNER, Robert James Robert was born on May 6, 1923, in Amherst, Nova Scotia. At the age of seventeen, and with his father’s authorization signature, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy. He served on board the frigate HMCS Ribble as a stoker, sailing out of Portsmouth and Plymouth, England. At war’s end, he served with the Amherst Nova Scotia Police Force and Customs and Drawback and attended Mt. Allison University to study mathematics. He joined the RCAF in January 1952 as an accounts clerk and served at RCAF bases in Goose Bay, Labrador; Moncton, New Brunswick; and Trenton, Ontario where he retired from the Regular Force in 1972 as Sgt. Bob also served two more years in Trenton with the RCAF Reserves. His honors and awards include the 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-1945, Defence Medal, and Canadian Forces Decoration and Clasp. “Big Bob” married the love of his life Joyce Cosman in 1948 and together they raised six children and enjoyed eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 110 for five years. He passed away on October 2, 2001 and is interred in Amherst, NS. MORISSETTE, Raymond Walter Raymond was born in Fannystelle, Manitoba on July 2, 1987. He enlisted in the Army in February 2010 in Winnipeg. He served faithfully to the Royal Canadian Dragoons in Petawawa for eight years. He deployed three times in Canada, two times for convoy escort and one time for humanitarian aid for Haitian refugees. He was released in 2018 and is currently residing in Durham, Ontario. We Will Remember Them Ontario Command
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