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MCPL CLIFFORD DENNISON CD, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2021, WAS LAID TO REST AT THE CATARAQUI CEMETERY IN KINGSTON ONTARIO ON 25 JUNE 2021. AT THE TIME OF HIS BURIAL IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT CLIFFORD WAS AN INDIGENOUS VETERAN AND THEREFORE HEATHER MITCHELL FROM THE CITY OF KINGSTON TOOK UP THE EFFORTS TO CONTACT THE LAST POST FUND TO OBTAIN THE VETERANS HEADSTONE. HEATHER CONTACTED THE ABORIGINAL VETERANS AUTOCHTONES (AVA) TO SEE WHAT COULD BE DONE FOR A PROPER INDIGENOUS TRADITIONAL CEREMONY. IT HAS BEEN WELL OVER A YEAR AND WITH THE HEADSTONE NOW IN PLACE WE ARE PREPARED TO HONOUR THE LIFE OF CLIFFORD AND TO CONDUCT THE TRADITIONAL CEREMONY FOR HIM TO MOVE TO THE SPIRIT WORLD TO BE AMONG HIS ANCESTORS. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE DETAILS FOR THE CEREMONY: PLACE: CATARAQUI CEMETERY 927 PURDY’S MILL ROAD, KINGSTON ONTARIO GRAVESITE MAP TO BE SENT PRIOR TO FRIDAY. DATE: FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2022 TIME: 1100 HRS DRESS: VETERANS WEAR MEDALS OTHER GUEST APPROPRIATE ATTIRE. THE CEREMONY WILL BE CONDUCTED IN TRADITIONAL OJIBWA/CREE BY ELDERS BERNARD & TAMMY NELSON OF KINGSTON. MIIGWETCH, MARSEE, MERCI, QUJANNAMIIK, ALL OUR RELATIONS ROBERT THIBEAU, CD PRESIDENT AVA (M) 613-217-0601 AND (H) 613-547-6236.
AFTER MORE THAN 37 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE WITH THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, THE COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS BRANCH, AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN CORPS OF SIGNALS, MASTER WARRANT OFFICER CHRIS BECKINGHAM WILL RETIRE FROM THE CAF ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2022.
1. CPL LANCE MARSHALL WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES (CAF) ON OCT 2ND 2022, AFTER OVER 35 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA. 2. LANCE JOINED THE CF ON THURSDAY THE 12TH OF FEB 1987 IN CALGARY. THE NEXT DAY HE TOOK A WHITE KNUCKLE AIRLINE TO HIS BASIC TRAINING. (THAT’S 7, CARRY THE 2…) WHEN ALL THE MATH IS DONE AND CHECKED, IT WORKS OUT TO A FRIDAY THE 13TH WHEN HE FLEW TO CORNWALLIS! UPON COMPLETION OF BASIC, HE HEADED TO CFSCE FOR POET AND HIS TRADES TRAINING AS A RADAR TECH 231. FROM THERE HE WOULD PROCEED A LITTLE FURTHER UP THE ROAD TO WORK IN THE GLASSHOUSE IN TRENTON BACK WHEN ATESS WAS CALLED AMDU. AFTER HELPING TO INSTALL A FEW BRAND NEW TACAN SYSTEMS, IT WAS TIME FOR A CHANGE AND HE WAS OFF TO SHILO. (“WE GO THERE?”) TWO YEARS LATER, AFTER GETTING HIS FEET UNDER HIM AND TRAINING HIS REPLACEMENT, HE WOULD ‘HIT THE ROAD’ AGAIN. ARRIVING IN COMOX WOULD SEE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TASKINGS: INITIALLY, THERE WAS STRUCTURED WIRING OF THE REMAINDER OF THE WING. UPON WORKING HIMSELF OUT OF A JOB, IT WAS A TOUR TO THE […]
1. AFTER 33 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE, WO LEONARD TALLIS’S LAST DAY IN UNIFORM WILL BE 02 OCTOBER 2022. 2. WO TALLIS ENROLLED IN THE CAF ON 28 MARCH 1989, LANDING IN CORNWALLIS ON APRIL 1ST 1989. UPON COMPLETION OF BASIC TRAINING AND INITIAL TRADES TRAINING AT CFSCE AS A 231 RADAR TECHNICIAN, LEONARD WAS POSTED TO 15 WING MOOSE JAW, SASK FROM 1990-1997. WHILE THERE HIS SON WAS BORN AND THE 231 TRADE AMALGAMATED MAKING HIM A 226 ATIS TECHNICIAN. IN 1997 LEN WAS POSTED TO GOOSE BAY AND IN 1998 IT WAS CLOSED DOWN TO THE TRADE MAKING HIM HAVE TO POST TO NORTH BAY. FROM 2006-2010 WO TALLIS WAS TRANSFERRED TO TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, AND FOLLOWED THAT WITH A POSTING TO HIS HOMETOWN OF TRENTON FROM 2010-2014. IN 2014 HE WAS ONCE AGAIN POSTED TO 5 WING GOOSE BAY AS THE WCWO ASSISTANT, THIS WAS AN OUT-OF-TRADE POSTING AND HE LEARNED A LOT AS THE WING CHIEFS ASSISTANT. THIS WAS ONLY A ONE-YEAR POSTING AND IN 2015 LEONARD WOULD FIND HIMSELF POSTED TO CFS LEITRIM AS THE PLANS WO. IN JANUARY 2018 POSTED AGAIN, THIS TIME TO JBER(JOINT BASE ELMENDOR-RICHARDSON) ALASKA AS […]
1. AFTER 35 YEARS OF LOYAL AND DEDICATED SERVICE TO CANADA, MWO RONALD LAWTON WILL RETIRE FROM THE CAF ON 24 JULY 2022. 2. MWO LAWTON ENROLLED IN HAMILTON, ONTARIO ON 15 JUNE 1987, UNDER THE SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PLAN, WITH 705 COMMUNICATION SQUADRON HAMILTON ONTARIO (31 SIGNAL REGIMENT), AS A RADIO/TELETYPE OPERATOR (RT OP) AND COMPLETED HIS LINEMAN TRAINING IN JULY 1988 AT CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS. HE DEPLOYED TO CROATIA ON HIS FIRST TOUR FROM 19 OCT 1993 TO 19 APR 1994. IN 1995 HE TRANSFERRED TO THE RESERVE ELECTRIONIC WARFARE SQUADRON IN KINGSTON FROM HAMILTON. IN MARCH 1998 HE TRANSFERRED TO THE REG FORCE AS A SIG OP AND WAS POSTED TO 1 CANADIAN DIVISION HEADQUARTERS AND SIGNAL REGIMENT KINGSTON. HE ALSO SERVED LFCA TC MEAFORD ONTARIO AND VARIOUS UNITS WITHIN THE NCR. MWO LAWTON HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEPLOY ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS: BOSNIA IN 2001, QATAR IN 2003, MIDDLE EAST IN 2003, HAITI IN 2004, AND AFGHANISTAN IN 2011 AND 2012. MWO LAWTON WAS PROMOTED TO HIS CURRENT RANK IN 2021 AND HELD THE POSITION OF UNIT SM AT DIMEUS IN OTTAWA AND FINISHED HIS CAREER AS AN IS TECH. 3. MWO LAWTON […]
1. AFTER MORE THAN 28 YEARS OF SERVICE, CAPTAIN JASON ISENOR WILL RETIRE FROM THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ON THE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2022. 2. JAY GREW UP IN ELMSDALE NS, AND JOINED THE CAF IN 1993 AS 031 INFANTRY. AFTER COMPLETION OF BASIC RECRUIT TRAINING AT CFRS CORNWALLIS, AND PPCLI BATTLE SCHOOL IN WAINWRIGHT AB, THEY WERE POSTED TO 2 PPCLI IN WINNIPEG IN JUNE OF 1994. SPENDING THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS IN THE BATTALION, AND AFTER A VACATION TO BOSNIA IN 1997, AND COMPLETION OF THE QUEEN’S GUARD IN 1998, JAY DECIDED TO REMUSTER TO ATIS TECH 226 IN JANUARY OF 2000. ON COMPLETION OF TRADES TRAINING, THEY WERE POSTED TO 14 WING GREENWOOD. IN 2006, AFTER A PROMOTION TO MCPL, THEY WERE SUBSEQUENTLY POSTED TO 9 WING GANDER. HERE THEIR TIME WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN COMPUTER SUPPORT, AND CANADIAN COASTAL RADAR TRAINING. IN 2008, ON PROMOTION TO SGT, JAY ASSUMED THE ROLE AS COURSE DIRECTOR, AND MAINTENANCE MANAGER DUTIES FOR THE CCR COURSE. IN THE SUMMER OF 2011, JAY WAS POSTED TO ATESS TRENTON WHERE HE SPENT THE NEXT 6 YEARS TRAINING ATIS TECHS. WHILE AT ATESS THEY WERE PROMOTED TO WO IN 2012, AND THEN TO […]