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March 1, 2024 Remembrance Page WWII Clarence William Cooke Private West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died: November 23, 1943 (Killed in Action, Italy) Age 39 Quinton Henry Sparks Private West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died: September 19, 1944 (Killed in Action, Italy) Age 22 John Jacob Tynes Sapper 5th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers Died: June 10, 1944 (Died of Wounds) Age 31 Ernest Henry Howell Stoker First Class HMCS Grou, Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve Died: October 2, 1945 (Died of Injuries) Age 23 Norman Clayton Skinner Private Cape Breton Highlanders, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died: August 30, 1944 (Killed in Action, Italy) Age 26 March 4, 2024 Remembrance Pages WWII Robert Charles Newman Rifleman Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died: September 27, 1944 (Killed in Action, France) Age 20 Leroy Charles Nichols Private Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died: September 19, 1944 (Killed in Action, France) Age 22 Richard Coates Civilian Radio Officer Canadian Air Transport Auxiliary, RAF Ferry Command Died: August 14, 1941 (Killed in air crash, Scotland) WWII Story Archive Fred Douglas Whitehouse RCAF WWII Veteran (Yarmouth) The story of his wartime experience Remembrance Pages WWII Carl Melvin Fried Private Seaforth Regiment of Canada, RCIC Died: May 23, 1944 (Killed in Action, Italy) Age 27 John Joseph MacDonald Civilian Radio Operator Canadian Air Transport Auxiliary, Royal Air Force Ferry Command Died: August 14, 1941 (Killed in air crash, Scotland) Age 33 Updated Remembrance Page WWII Edwin Frederick Amirault Private 1st Class, United States Army 21st Armored Infantry Battalion, 11th Armored Division Born: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Died: May 23, 1944 (Killed in Action) Age 37 March 7, 2024 Remembrance Pages WWII Gordon Gabriel Able Seaman HMS Diadem, Royal Navy Died: January 28, 1945 (Lost at Sea) Age 27 Clarence Victor Atkinson Civilian Radio Operator Ferry Command, Royal Air Force Died: October 14, 1942 (Killed in Air Crash) Age 39 Harold Morris Private 3 Patrol Field Depot, Royal Army Service Corps, British Army Died: December 26, 1944 (Died as a Prisoner of War) Age 31 March 8, 2024 Remembrance Pages WWII Cyril Paul Joseph Meagher Civilian Radio Operator Ferry Command, Royal Air Force Died: July 4, 1945 (Killed in Air Crash) Age 34 Harold Wilson Oldham Flying Officer 11 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron, RCAF, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Died: September 27, 1941 (Killed in Air Crash) Age 34 March 16, 2024 Remembrance Pages - Those Who Served WWI Eugene Albert Surette Private First Class Service: L Company, 306th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, US Army, American Expeditionary Force (AEF) Remembrance Pages WWII Allan Parker Cann Radio Operator (Civilian) Service: Ferry Command, Royal Air Force Died: December 19, 1943 (Killed in Air Crash) Age 21 Gervase Benedict Rendell Private 48th Highlanders of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died: July 29, 1943 (Killed in Action) Age 22 Updated Remembrance Pages WWI Keith Dalston Withycombe Driver Royal Field Artillery “D” Battery 51st Brigade (United Kingdom) Died: October 22, 1918 (Killed in Action) Age 27 March 17, 2024 Updates Remembrance Page WWII Nova Scotia Military Casualties A listing of Nova Scotian WWII Casualties born or residents of NS Counties other than Yarmouth Co., NS. and casualties not born or residents of Yarmouth Co., but related to residents of Nova Scotia. Remembrance Pages WWII Alexandre Eusèbe LeBlanc Staff Sergeant 358th Bomber Squadron, 303rd Bomber Group, Heavy, USAAF Died: March 18, 1943 (Killed in Air Crash) Age 24 Albert William Meiners Private Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Died: August 19, 1942 (Killed in Action) Age 31 Updated WWII Story Archive Remembering Dieppe Operation Jubilee August 18/19, 1942 March 18, 2024 Remembrance Page WWII Robert Lloyd Burchell Sergeant/Wireless Air Gunner Royal Canadian Air Force No 111 OTU (Operational Training Unit) Died: April 9, 1943 (Killed on Active Service) Nassau; Age 19 Robert Walter Hart Captain (Master) SS San Jacinto, US Merchant Navy Lost at Sea, April 22, 1942 (Age 63) March 20, 2024 Remembrance Page WWII Josef Vanis Sergeant 311 (Czechoslovak) Bomber Squadron, Coastal Command, Royal Air Force Died: April 10, 1945 (Killed on Active Service) Age 23 March 22, 2024 Remembrance Page WWII Harold Ernest Jowett Flight Sergeant No. 11 Operational Training Unit (RAF), Royal Canadian Air Force Died: February 10, 1942 (Killed on Active Service) Age 20

April 1, 2024 Remembrance Pages WWI Yarmouth Casualty 6 Added to the WWI List of Casualties Yarmouth, NS William Garfield Perry Private 1st Depot Battalion, Nova Scotia Resident of Yarmouth, NS Died: June 26, 1920 (Death due to Military Service) Age 24 Edward Joseph Pothier Private 64th Battalion, 25th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces b. Yarmouth, NS Died: November 23, 1929 (Death due to Military Service) Age 22 Arthur Franklyn Ring Sapper 256th Overseas Railway Construction Battalion, 10th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops. b. Yarmouth, NS Died: October 26, 1923 (Death due to Military Service) Age 22 Henry Edward White Private 25th Battalion b. Yarmouth, NS Died: May 2, 1931 (Death due to Military Service) Age 43 Arthur William Hood Corporal 25 Battalion b. Yarmouth, NS Died: January 16, 1927 (Death due to Military Service) Age 36 Hallett Archibald Trefry Private 85th Battalion b. Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS Died: April 4, 1935 (Death due to Military Service) Age 36 Updated Remembrance Page WWI Yarmouth Casualty John Kenneth Price Sapper Canadian Railway Troops, 256th Railway Construction Battalion 10th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops Resident of Yarmouth, NS Died: April 4, 1918 (Killed in Action) Age 17 April 8, 2024 Remembrance Page WWI Yarmouth Casualty Joseph Jeffrey Saulnier Lance Corporal Lights Section, 1st Fortress Company, Royal Canadian Engineers b. Yarmouth, NS Died: September 29, 1924 (Death due to Military Service) Age 38 Selected Stories from Wartime Heritage: Stories of World War I Somewhere in the Atlantic Remembering My Brother My Best and Only Chum Stories of World War II Chinese Checkers The Button A Pint of Rum Kiss Me Through the Fence Invasion Telegraphist Air Gunner Stories - WWII I Got Caught For the Birds April 9, 2024 Selected Stories from Wartime Heritage: Stories of World War II September 1939: The Freighter The Periscope The Little Girl’s Secret April 21, 2024 Stories of World War I Waiting Until the Darkness April 24, 2024 Stories of World War II The Silent Echo of the Mountain WWII Story Archive James ‘Jim’ Marshal McRae - Royal Canadian Air Force WWII WWII Story Archive The Silent Guns of Calais - 1944 A story of wartime Dover, Kent, UK Remembrance Page WWII (Updated) Thomas E Thompson and Step-Father Austin Winslow Davis Private 1st Class 72nd Engineer Company (Light Ponton), US Army Died: April 27, 1945 (Killed in Action) Age 21 Austin Winslow Davis (Step-Father) Private 313th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division, United States Army Died: September 27, 1941 (Killed in Action) Age 29 Remembrance Page WWII (Updated) Paul Martin Deveau Fireman Second Class USS Turner (DD-648), US Navy Died: January 3, 1944 (Lost at Sea) Age 20 Remembrance Pages WWI - Casualty with Family Connection to Yarmouth, NS) Daniel Norman MacRitchie Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve Force, United States Navy Died: April 7, 1918 (Died of Illness) Age 42 April 27, 2024 Remembrance Page WWI - Those Who Served Frank Julian Dulong Private Company “E” 167th Infantry, United States Army b. Tusket, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia