Military Service Recognition Book

315 www.on.legion.ca SEFTEL, William William was born in St. Agatha, Ontario on October 4, 1895, to Jacob and Magdalena (Pfanner) along with nine siblings, Mary, Elizabeth, George, Edward, Jacob, Anne, Lovina, Adelina, Moses and William. Prior to World War I, William was working on a farm by Petersburg. William received the draft letter to report to the Military Depot in Stratford and was posted to the #1 Depot Battalion, Western Ontario Regiment. When basic training was over, the war was winding down and the government started to demobilize the CEF, William was kept at the London Armouries and discharged on January 25, 1919. He married Florence May (Wanner) and they raised two daughters, Irene S. and Beatrice Lillian (Bechtel). William died in Freeport Hospital on November 12, 1968, and is buried in the Blair Cemetery in Cambridge. SHAW, Warren F. Warren was born in Milton, Ontario on April 23, 1940. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Forces) RCEME at 13 P.D. Ottawa on January 6, 1959, and served with the RCEME Corps for 26 years doing basic training at the RCEME school in Kingston, Ontario, completing it in 1960. He was posted to 202 Base workshop in Montreal, Quebec where he completed his Group 2 Tracked course. In 1961, he was posted to Petawawa to the Fort Garry Horse Tank Regiment. After serving in CFB Gagetown in 1962, he was posted with the Fort Garry Horse to Germany. In 1963, he became a member of the Boy Scouts of Canada serving with them for the next thirty years becoming Area Commissioner in Eastern Ontario. Returning from Germany in 1965, he was posted to Calgary, Alberta, Cypress in 1966 and when he returned, he went to back to Calgary. From there, he went to the RCEME School in Kingston and moved with them to CFB Borden. In 1975, he was posted to Canadian Forces Base Churchill, Manitoba. Again, posted back to Ontario in 1977, to CFB Trenton, Ontario working as maintenance coordinator to Churchill. He bought a farm across the road from where he was raised, retiring from the forces in 1988 and spent five years as a reservist, completely retiring in 1993. He lives on his farm with his wife Chery and enjoys spending time at The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 509 in Consecon where he is a four-year member and presently serves as Colour Sergeant. We Will Remember Them Ontario Command

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