Military Service Recognition Book – Volume 15 / 33 The Royal Canadian Legion Prince Edward Island Command FLEMING, Daniel Richard SPECIAL DUTY AREA Daniel was born in Hope River, PEI in 1936. He joined the Army in 1956 in Halifax and was posted to “W” Light Battery 4 RCHA employed as a technical gunner. On joining “K” Battery he was employed in the battery command post / battery surveyor and technical assistant to the Battery Commander. He assisted the National Defence Research Canada in trials at Camp Petawawa. With “M” Battery he was employed as a gun detachment commander. At Regimental HQ he was appointed Regimental Survey Sergeant and Assistant Training Officer. Daniel successfully completed a Group IV and Chief Warrant Officer qualifying course in 1967/68. He trained in radiation fallout prediction, radiation monitoring, aerial photo interpretation and nuclear target analysis, served with “K” Battery in northern Norway as a member of the ACE (Allied Central Europe) Mobile Forces during the “Cold War”. A training injury resulted in being released in 1970. He was commissioned as a Cadet Instructor List Officer in 1979 and served as the Commanding Officer of the Tignish 641 Air Cadet Squadron. Daniel is a 44 year member of the Tignish Legion Branch 6. FLEIGHER, Arthur George “Art” WWII Art was born in 1918, the son of Charles Fleigher and Eliza Mallett. He enlisted in the Army with the Royal Canadian Dragoons and served for five years during World War II in the Netherlands and Italy. He received the Defence Medal, the 1939-1945 Medal, the King George VI 1939-1945 Medal, the 1939-1945 Star, the Italy Star, the France and Germany Star and the Thank You Canada Medal (Netherlands). He married Phyllis Thomson of North Tryon. Art passed away on January 18, 2017. ELLSWORTH, Jason Lloyd SPECIAL DUTY AREA & PEACETIME Jason was born in O’Leary, PEI in 1975. He joined the Army with the Royal Canadian Dragoons. He served in Bosnia in 1998, Kosovo in 2000, Afghanistan in 2003, 2005 and 2008 and in Ukraine in 2018.
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