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October 28, 2024 WWI Remembrance Pages Vance Alton Hemeon (b. Salem, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Sapper 4th Company, Canadian Railway Troops Died of Wounds: December 12, 1917; Age 27 Wilfred Perry (b. Yarmouth, NS) Private 3rd Battalion KIA: November 6, 1917; Age 20 George Crowell (Resident Brazil Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 40th Battalion/24th Battalion KIA: November 7, 1917; Age 23 October 27, 2024 WWI Remembrance Page - Those Who Served John Harris (Jean Athanase "Johnnie" Harris) (b.Little River Harbour, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 31 Company, Canadian Forestry Corps Served in Canada, England, and France 1917-1919 WWI Remembrance Page Louis Narcis Harris Private Canadian Army Medical Corps 3rd Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps KIA: August 26, 1918; Age 22 October 26, 2024 WWII Remembrance Page Edgar Francis Oxner (b. Lunenburg, NS) Sergeant 33600335 45th Reconnaissance Troop, 45th Infantry Division (The Thunderbird Division) United States Army KIA: September 22, 1944; Age 35 WWI Remembrance Page Robert McDonnell (b. Argyle, Yarmouth Co., NS) Lance Corporal 44th Battalion KIA: October 26, 1917; Age 23 October 25, 2024 WWI Remembrance Page - Those Who Served Remembrance Page Charles Asa Cunningham Everett Augustus Cunningham Clayton Wilfred Cunningham October 24, 2024 WWI Remembrance Page Ivan Vernon Higby (b. Yarmouth NS) Corporal Company ‘A’, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, US Army KIA: October 27, 1918; Age 22 WWI Remembrance Page - Those Who Served James Albert Higby (b. Yarmouth NS) Private Company ‘B’, 64th Battalion, 25th Battalion Served: Canada, England, France (1916-1919) Charles Ernest Higby (b. Yarmouth NS) Private 112th Battalion; Royal Canadian Regiment Served: Canada, England, France (1915-1919) WWII Remembrance Page Thomas Standing (Cape Breton) Private West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died War Related Illness: July 7, 1945; Age 34 October 21, 2004 WWII Remembrance Page Elmer Norman Doane (Shelburne Co., NS) Lieutenant West Nova Scotia Regiment, R.C.I.C KIA: December 12, 1943; Age 24 WWII Remembrance Page (Updated) Elmer Bird Havener (Kings Co., NS) Second Lieutenant 394th Fighter Squadron, 367th Fighter Group United States Army Air Force KIA: April 24, 1945; Age: 22 Korean Remembrance Page (Updated) Elwin Herman Goodwin (Central Argyle, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C. KIA: October 4, 1951; Age 20 October 19, 2024 WWII Story Archive: Sinking of the Merchant Motor Tanker Barbro September 19, 1941 Remembering: Andrew Parsons (Halifax; Age 24) Mess Room Boy Michael J. McIsaac (Cape Breton; Age 20) Mess Room Boy William Albert Melville (Cape Breton; Age 30) Ordinary Seaman Renford ‘Ranceford’ Bayfield Weatherbee (Cape Breton; Age 22) Oiler October 17, 2024 WWII Story Archive: “Some of the Lads Don't Offer Their Stories Easily, Do They?” WWII Remembrance Page (Update) Frederick Clayton Boutilier Technician Fourth Grade (Sergeant) 497th Coastal Artillery Battalion (AA [Anti Aircraft]) Remembrance Pages - Those Who served WWI Edward Stanley Gavel Sergeant 6th Co., 152nd Depot Brigade 50th Co., 20th Engineer Regiment, United States Army October 16, 2024 WWII Remembrance Pages Digby Co., Nova Scotia, WWII Casualties (A complete curated listing researched by Wartime Heritage of Digby Co., NS casualties including those from Ashmore, Barton, Bear River, Brighton, Clare, Conway, Digby Neck, Doucetteville, New Edinburgh, Plympton, Smith's Cove, Weymouth and more, with Remembrance Pages, photos, and WWII newspaper news clippings) Kenneth Rae Forrester (Resident of Bear River, Digby Co., NS) Major Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Died of Illness: February 10, 1942; Age 61 George Allen Wilson (b. Digby, NS) Craftsman No. 1 Canadian Base Workshop, Royal Canadian Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Died: April 12, 1945; Age 23 Norman Mitchell Maling (b. Bear River, NS) Private Irish Regiment of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps KIA: September 13, 1944; Age 32 Joseph Henry Godsoe (b. Digby, NS) Trooper 10th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Fort Garry Horse Regiment), Royal Canadian Armoured Corps KIA: August 11, 1944; Age 23 October 13, 2024 Remembrance Pages - Those Who served WWI Arthur Chester Gavel (b. Argyle Head, Yarmouth Co., NS) Lance Corporal Royal Canadian Regiment Served: Canada, United Kingdom, and France George Andrew Gavel (b. Argyle Head, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 1st Deport Battalion, NS Served: Canada (b. Argyle Head, Yarmouth Co., NS) October 11, 2024 Remembrance Pages WWII Curtis Warren (b. Centerville, Digby Co., NS) Able Seaman SS Marconi, Merchant Navy Died: December 15, 1939; Age 57 Douglas Ernest Kelly (Resident: Westport, Digby Co., NS) Corporal Carleton and York Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps KIA: March 18, 1944; Age 23 Joseph Watson Lewis (b. Waterford, Digby Co., NS) Private Algonquin Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps KIA: March 3, 1945; Age 20 Korean War Remembrance Page Charles Albert Meuse (Quinan and Belleville, Yarmouth Co., NS grandparents) Private First Class Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, US Marine Corps KIA: February 24, 1951, Age 21 October 10, 2024 Remembrance Pages WWII Roger Elderkin McCormick (b. Weymouth, Digby Co., NS) Private West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps KIA: December 12, 1943; Age: 24 Lloyd Allen Outhouse (b. Tiverton, Digby Co., NS) Private North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died of Wounds: July 5, 1944: Age 28 Ernest Marshall (b. England; Resident of Digby, NS) Petty Officer Steward HMCS Cornwallis, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve Died: June 5, 1943; Age 37 Harold Alexander McGowan (b. Weymouth, Digby Co., NS) Private Canadian Scottish Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps KIA: July 15, 1944; Age 27 October 7, 2024 Remembrance Pages WWII Kenneth Angus Donnelly (b. Digby, NS) Craftsman Attached to Headquarters, 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers KIA: July 11, 1944; Age 26 Burgess Arthur Francis (b. Weymouth, Digby Co., NS) Private West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died of Illness: September 4, 1947; Age 42 October 6, 2024 Remembrance Wartime Heritage Wartime Heritage Association Marks the 12th Anniversary of its Website. October 5, 2024 Digby Co., NS - WWI Casualties WWI Remembrance Page Stephen Henry Meuse Private First Class Service Company C, 147th Infantry Regiment, 37th Division, United States Army Died of Wounds: October 1, 1918; Age 24 Remembrance Page WWII Paul Eaton Nichols (Freeport, Digby Co., NS) Warrant Officer Class II 40 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force Lost: September 17, 1943; Age 19 October 4, 2024 Remembrance Pages WWII Gerald Joseph Doucette (b.Belliveau's Cove, Digby Co.,, NS) Private West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps KIA: August 2, 1943; Age 20 William Alton Glavin (b. Westport, Digby Co., NS) Cook Royal Canadian Navy Reserve (Died of Illness) August 26, 1940; Age 55 John Batiste Richard (Resident of Bear River, Digby Co., NS) Private West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps KIA: December 14, 1943; Age 22 John Hetrick Harris (Resident of Bear River, Digby Co., NS) Private South Saskatchewan Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps (Died of Illness) December 12, 1946; Age 34
November 12, 2014 World War I Casualties - Yarmouth Town and County, Nova Scotia (Updates) (List of Casualties in Chronological Order) November 10, 2014 Remembrance Page WWII Carl Norman Harris (b. Halifax, Nova Scotia) V/335 Ordinary Seaman HMCS Ottawa, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve Lost at Sea: September 13, 1942; Age 26 Story Archive WWII The Loss of HMCS Ottawa NS Casualties (September 13, 1942) November 7, 2024 WWI Remembrance Pages Ebenezer Tucker (b. Newfoundland; enlisted in Yarmouth, NS) Private 72nd Company, Canadian Forestry Corps Died: February 8, 1919; Age 27 Percy Adelbert Berriman (b. Yarmouth NS) 1st Depot Battalion Nova Scotia Private Died: July 15, 1919; Age 23 (attributed to war service) Simon Doucette (b. Tusket, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 219th Battalion/85th Battalion KIA: October 30, 1917 (Passchendaele); Age 21 WWI Remembrance Pages - Those Who Served Charles William (Guillaume) Doucette (b. Tusket, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 85th Battalion, 4th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force Leo Frank LeBlanc (b. Abrams River, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 42nd Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force November 1, 2024 Remembrance Page WWII Elmont Gasper Prest (b. Spry Harbour, Halifax Co., NS) Flying Officer 619 (RAF) Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force KIA: August 18, 1943; Age 29 WWI Remembrance Pages John Mathers McDonnell (Lower Argyle, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 144th Battalion (Winnipeg Rifles); 12th Battalion Vernon Guy Crosby (b. Gardners Mills, Yarmouth Co., NS) Gunner 219th Overseas Highland Battalion, and the No. 10 Halifax Siege Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery Alvinie Anatole Lorgere (b. Eel Brook, Yarmouth Co., NS) Bandsman 63rd Regiment, 6th Detachment, Canadian Garrison Regiment John Henry Young (Resident: Abrams River, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private Composite Battalion, Halifax NS, and 85th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces Leslie Smith Gavel (b. Gavelton, Yarmouth Co., NS Private 1st Depot Battalion Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Regiment George Maynard Jeffery (b. Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS) Private 219th Overseas Highland Battalion, 85th Battalion WWI Remembrance Pages (Updated) Gordon Arnold Nickerson (b. Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS) James Frank Bourque (b. Eel Brook, Yarmouth Co., NS)