Born in Trenton ON 4 Sep 1925, he joined the RCAF at age 18 in 1943 and was discharged in 1946 as an Air Gunner. For the next three years he earned a living by boxing professionally as a welterweight having boxed 54 bouts at $200 per bout. In 1949 he hung up his gloves and donned a uniform again, this time as a Trenton Policeman. This lasted until 1951 when he decided to join the Army. He enrolled as an Officer Cadet and after graduating from OCS, he completed Phases 2, 3 and 4 and was promoted to 2/Lt. After spending five years as a Pl Cdr with the QOR of C he attended the Officer’s PT Course at Aldershot UK. After three years at the RCS of I in Borden, he went back to Aldershot in 1955 to attend the Advanced and Probationers PT courses. On returning to Canada he became the Chief Instructor at the Army School of PT in Borden for three years. He then did a three year tour in Germany as the SOPT in Soest, then as a Coy Cdr with the 2 QOR of C during which time he was promoted to Maj. His next tour saw him spend seven months in Cypress in 1967 with a subsequent posting to Tanzania in 1978 as the training Officer of the Tanzanian People’s Defence Force in Nachingivea, S. Tanzania. On his return again to Canada he spent a year at the RCS of I before being posted to Victoria as the Regional Cadet Officer. He retired in 1974 and worked in Victoria for five years as a car salesman. He then spent the next 17 years running his own charter fishing company “Best Way Charters” and also served as a fishing guide at River’s Inlet. He and his wife Joan have a daughter Susan, two sons Rick and Robert and two grand children Alyssa and Matt. Punch regularly attended the Muscle Bosn’s breakfasts in Victoria and kept his 80+ year old body slim and trim by swimming every morning at the Oak Bay Rec Center.