V55506
Royal Canadian Navy
Engine Room Artificer

Born: May 22nd 1913, Family Farm, Wilmot Township
Died: January 20th 1992, Woodstock, ON
Attended: Green Public School
After School: family Jersey farm, Baird's Machine Shop
Enlisted: March 2nd 1943
Trained: Sydney and Halifax, Nova Scotia
Served: England, Scotland, France
Medals or Awards: Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal
After the War: Baird's Machine Shop as machinist; owned Baird's Fish and Chips, Dundas St., Woodstock
Family: Parents - Robert and Rosabel Baird
Brother - Robert
Sisters - Margaret Smith, Jean Cox, Faith Neudoerffer, Isabel Hallman, Agnes Reist, Ruth Baird [died in infancy]
Wife - Married Hazel Irene Stone on May 22nd 1939, All Saint's Anglican, Woodstock
Children - Robert Arthur Baird, Marilyn Louise Martin
Comments: An E.R.A. on HMCS Regina. The Regina was torpedoed in the English Channel and sunk in 28 seconds leaving 2 dead and 27 missing. Tom was a survivor and returned to Canada on the same ship as Sir Winston Churchill. He was a Charter Member of the Moose Lodge, Woodstock, member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Woodstock and member of Navy Club, Woodstock