343 www.on.legion.ca STEWART, William Peter “Bill” Bill was born in Hamilton, Ontario on September 1, 1937. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve in 1954. He was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy at the age of seventeen, in May 1955, straight out of school. He served on HMCS Cornwallis, Stadacona, Gaspe, Portage Crusader, and lived in Caledonia. Bill has been to England, the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Great Lakes, Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Scotland and Ireland. He was released in May 1960 and was employed byWestinghouse Canada for 37 years and retired to Chesley, Ontario with his wife Olga of 68 years in 1998. He has been a member of The Royal Canadian Legion Hepworth and now Tara for 27 years. Bill retired in 1998, and they have three boys and six grandchildren. STIER, Nathaniel Nathaniel was born on July 3, 1892 in New Hamburg, to Philip andAngeline (Eby). Prior to World War I, he was working in a furniture factory. He enlisted in the Army (Regular Force) in Stratford on January 10, 1916 with the 110th Battalion and was subjected to three months of serious training before he loaded his gear on the SS Coronia and set sail with his unit for England. He arrived at Shoreham for additional training, transferred to the 38th Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment) and sent to the battlefields on June 26, 1917. They were gassed and Nathaniel spent three months in recovery and back to the trenches. He hurt his ankle and couldn’t walk, so he returned to the hospital. Upon his recovery, he was back in the war where he lost his life in battle on August 10, 1918. He is buried in the Vimy Memorial in Pas-de-Calais, France. Nathaniel Stier is commemorated on Page 507 of the First World War Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. STIFF, Thomas Arthur “Art” Thomas was born in Toronto on May 27, 1922. He enrolled in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943 and undertook initial flying training at RCAF Station Camp Borden with No. 1 Service Flying Training School. He was awarded his pilots wings on March 10, 1944. With the war winding down, Art continued training on Hurricane and Spitfire fighter aircraft in England with the RCAF and the RAF in support of the approaching Allied return to the continent. He flew operational sorties in support of the ground troops. With the end of the war, Art returned to Canada and was discharged in 1945. Post-war found him becoming an industrial art teacher teaching in North York for 25 years. He moved to Barrie, Ontario in 1986 to retire. Art was a long-time member of 441 (Huronia) Wing of the RCAF Association in Barrie, and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 147, also in Barrie. He passed away on April 18, 2022, four weeks short of his 100th birthday. We Will Remember Them Ontario Command
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