299 www.on.legion.ca RICHARDSON, Newton Thomas Newton was born in London, Ontario on August 6, 1950. He enlisted in the Army (Reserve Force) in 1967 and served with the 21st Field Regiment in Canada. He was released in 1969. He is a six-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Wallaceburg Branch 18. ROBERTSON, Stewart Douglas Stewart was born onAugust 27, 1917 in Saugeen Township, Bruce County, to John D. and Lewella (Snyder) along with four siblings: Donald J., Jean (Hammond), Kathleen Margaret and Helen Elizabeth Robertson. Stewart enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) in October 1941 and trained in Kitchener and Camp Borden. He was on the battlefield in Italy with D Company, 17th Platoon of the RCR’s. Stewart was mortally wounded on July 24, 1943 by mortar fragments. His left abdomen and liver were penetrated but he managed to walk to the field hospital where he died one day later. Stewart is buried in the Agira War Cemetery in Sicilia, Italy. If Stewart had survived, and Hubert Ditner, who also died in Italy on January 5, 1945, survived, they would have attended the brother Clarence Ditner and sister Helen Robertson wedding in 1945. Private Stewart Douglas Robertson is commemorated on Page 208 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. ROBINSON, John Roy John Roy Robinson was born in Bridgenorth, Ontario on November 16, 1893, to William and Isabella (Young). He was one of ten children and lost his mother at the age of 14. He worked at the Peterborough Canoe Company and enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) on November 19, 1914, in the 21st Battalion (Kingston). John was wounded on his very first day on the front lines on September 15, 1915 at Courcelette. He experienced shrapnel wounds to both thighs, his left hand and lost his little finger. John did not see action again and remained in the hospital in Europe until invalided home in May 1917. He remained in the hospital in Kingston until discharged on January 31, 1918. Upon his return to Lakefield, he married Edna Payne in 1918 (died 1920) and remarried Ida Murduff in 1921. He worked as a Hardware clerk and at the Service Station in Lakefield. John died in New Liskeard on March 3, 1976 aged 83. His only son, Earl (born in 1919) died in 1921. John always carried a reminder of his service with him – one of the few soldiers who only saw action for one day in the Great War. We Will Remember Them Ontario Command
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