59 www.on.legion.ca BIRD, Victor Raymond “Ray” Ray was born on February 15, 1929, in MacNutt, Saskatchewan. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (Regular Force) with Communications Technician Air Group 3 on December 1, 1950 in Edmonton. He wanted an education as an Electronics Technician. He graduated and went to Gimli, Manitoba for two years, Vanastra for a month, and Montreal for a six-month course. He graduated second in the class and chose Vanastra Air Base to teach. He taught for five years and he left the Air Force on November 30, 1955, but remained as a Civil Instructor for nine years. He was the Senior Instructor in charge of other Instructors who developed and created the Course Book and Radar exam for airmen. Ray decided to retire from the military. He bought two farms and worked in Kongskilde farm machinery for five years as a technical manager. He moved to Brussels to a farm. He retired and spent his time in pursuit of his love of sailing, painting, gardening, and self-reliant ideas. Ray passed away on May 5, 2022. BISHOP, Clyde Jacob Clyde was born on January 8, 1952 in Gander, Newfoundland and joined the Canadian Army in December 1970. His forty years of service include postings to 1 RCR London, Ontario and 3 Mech Commando in Germany. In 1980, he remustered to the CF Postal Service and served at CFS Sydney, Nova Scotia; CFB Cold Lake, Alberta and CFB Trenton, Ontario. His deployments included Cyprus, Golan Heights, CFS Alert and Aviano, Italy. Clyde transferred to the Air Reserves at CFB Trenton and retired in 2012 as MWO. His honors and awards include CD 2, SSM NATO, Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal, UN Forces Cyprus and the UN Disengagement Observation Force Medal. Clyde resides in Trenton, Ontario and is a ten-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 110 in Trenton. BLACK, Margaret Louise Margaret was born in Nashville, Ontario in 1889, the daughter of John and Margaret Black. She trained as a nurse in Hamilton before enlisting in the Army (Regular Force) with the Canadian Army Medical Corps on April 10, 1917, in Toronto. Margaret departed from Halifax and arrived in Liverpool on May 6 and was posted to the Canadian General hospital at Orpington. On January 22, 1918, Margaret was taken on strength at the No. 12 Canadian General Hospital at Bramshott. A very dedicated nurse, Margaret was busy treating the steady stream of soldiers arriving from France and Flanders. As Margaret recalled; her worst experience was during the winter of 1919. The world influenza pandemic was the cause. Short-staffed one night because so many nurses were ill, she was the only Nursing Sister on a ward of 30 Canadian soldiers who had survived their wounds but now were wracked with fever. Four young men died in her arms during that one long night. Margaret returned to Canada on the SS Northland on May 29, 1919, was released on June 27, 1919, and spent her entire career at the Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital nursing wounded soldiers. Nursing Sister Margaret Louise Black passed away in 1963 and rests in the Nashville Cemetery, Kleinburg Ontario. We Will Remember Them Ontario Command
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