LEST WE FORGET 163 HOGG, John Bruce WWI Bruce was born on February 28, 1891, in Bridgeburg, Welland, Ontario (Fort Erie) to William Malcolm and Eleanor (Nellie) Amelia (Phillips) Hogg. He had an aunt and a cousin in Rocanville and he was on the 1904-05 Rocanville ball team. He and his sister, Ruby, worked at Barrett and Scott’s store. He was working as a bank clerk in Rocanville when he enlisted with the 217th Battalion in Rocanville on May 3, 1916. He was hospitalized in Toronto with a nasal obstruction but sailed from Halifax on June 2, 1917 aboard the Olympic with many other Rocanville and area young men who enlisted with the 217th. He was hospitalized several times with a deviated septum, which prevented him from using a gas mask, and kept him in England and not able to go to France. He was with the 15th Reserve, 19th Reserve, and 46th Battalion while training in England. He also suffered with trench fever on May 21, 1918 with severe pain in his back and legs. He was discharged as medically unfit on March 3, 1919. He planned on returning to Rocanville but he ended up working as a postmaster in Bridgeburg, Ontario. He married Margaret Elizabeth MacGrotty and had three children. Private Hogg died in 1983 in Leamington, Ontario and is buried at Erie Cemetery in Wheatley, Ontario. HOILAND, John Brock WWII John was born in 1923 and later moved to Rosetown and farmed west of Darcy. He enlisted in the RCNVR on December 6, 1943 as a stoker serving in Canada, the Atlantic and the North Sea on HMCS Stormont and was discharged on May 5, 1945 and went back to farming. In 1964, he married Shirley Stewart and purchased land from Elton McDonald west of Arborfield in the Ditton Park District and raised four children: Don, Heather, Robert and Kathleen. John and Shirley built a house in Arborfield in 1987 and belonged to the Arborfield Legion and Ladies’ Auxiliary. John passed away in 1997. HOGG, Wilfred Wesley WWI Wilfred was born on July 23, 1890, to James Clark and Caroline Maude (Richardson) Hogg, in Thamesville, Ontario and he had four brothers and two sisters. Wesley had an aunt (Eliza Logan) and a cousin (May Barrett) living in Rocanville so he had come west and was working at Rocanville as a garage man when he enlisted on November 11, 1917 in Winnipeg, Manitoba with the 76th Depot CFA Draft. He had an operation for appendicitis in 1917. He arrived in England aboard the Melita on April 28, 1918 and served in the reserve in England. He returned to Canada aboard the Winifredian on July 18, 1919. He was discharged on August 3, 1919 in Regina and his plan was to go to Unity, Sask. After the war, he married Ella Ruth McKay and raised a family of a daughter and son in Thamesville, Ontario. Private Wesley Hogg passed away in 1950 and is buried in Botany Cemetery in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. His daughter, Rosana “Jean”, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an Air Woman in World War II; and his son, Albert “Wes”, was a Signalman with HMCS Poundmaker in World War II.
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