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Fred Barnard Way

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Street

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A street in Uxbridge, Ontario named in honour of D-Day veteran Corporal Fred Barnard.

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Uxbridge, Ontario
44°05’58.8″N
79°07’35.8″W

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February is Black History Month please take some time to learn about Lester Brown. He was born in 1921 in Raleigh Twsp., Kent County and married to Phyllis (nee Hooper) of Toronto, in September of 1946. He is the father of Heather, Lamont and Vernon. Lester was drafted in July of 1943 at the age of 23, assigned to the Queen’s Own Rifles for overseas service. A veteran of D-Day, 6 June, 1944 he landed with the Queen’s Own Rifles at Juno Beach, he waded ashore without so much as a scratch. He would soon find himself facing the British objective, the city of Caen. A few days after landing in France he and his platoon were ordered to take Bretteville-sur-Laize. Seeing an Allied tank on the road, Brown and another soldier hurried towards it but came under fire by a German ambush. He managed to save himself but took a bullet to the chin, which looked terrible at first but left only a facial scar. While crawling across a French wheat field on June 20th, 1944 he had reached a point that they thought the coast must be clear and everyone stood up, right into the German line of fire. This time Lester was not so lucky he was hit in the knee by a piece of shrapnel. Everyone was scattering and running for their lives, Lester said he was “confused I didn’t know what to do or where to run.” See a Canadian tank he and an other soldier raced, the other soldier got there first, so Lester had to run around the tank to jump on. Once on he looked for the other man, looking over the side he saw a helmet covered in blood and the soldier dead , shot through the head. Had he won the race he would have lost his life. A sniper’s bullet did graze his chin. Lester was sent back to England to have his injuries attended to in hospital. The war was over for him although even when interviewed in 2011 he said “Anybody who made it through, it was just plain luck”. When Lester returned home he married and had three children. He worked as a railway porter and later graduated to a conductor for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Lester passed away Wednesday, 18 September, 2013 and was interned at Memorial Cemetery, North Buxton, ON. in his 92nd year Reposted from @queensownrifles

Happy Family day everyone! Photo from deployment of 2nd QORofC to Cyprus in 1967. #qor #qorofc #queensownrifles #qormuseum #regularforce #familyday #cyprus #unitednations

The Regiment conducting a march past in the early 1900s lead by Sir Henry Pellatt. #queensownrifles #qormuseum #qor #qorofc #casaloma #sirhenrypellatt #marchpast #revieworder #riflegreen #riflegreen #therifles

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