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New/Updated pages on the Website
March 2023
New WWII Remembrance Page
Elmer Bird Havener (Yarmouth Connection)
Second Lieutenant
394th Fighter Squadron, 367th Fighter Group
United States Army Air Force
Date of Death: April 24, 1945
Age: 22
(Added March 2, 2023)
New WWII Story
Raymond Thomas Voss
Welder
Civilian Technical Corps
Date of Death: June 2, 1943
Age: 26
(Added March 5, 2023)
New WWII Remembrance Page
Thomas Standing (Cape Breton)
Private
West Nova Scotia Regiment,
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Date of Death: July 7, 1945
Age: 34
(Added March 6, 2023)
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Robert Gray MacDonald
Flight Sergeant
405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
March 12, 1943
Age: 26
(Added March 6, 2023)
New WWII Story
Wartime Memories
Bonnie van der Meulen-Hiddema
The Liberation of Groningen
(Added March 6, 2023)
New WWII Remembrance Page (RCAF)
Richard Clement Powell
(British Columbia)
Aircraftman Second Class
R/210550
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
March 9, 1943
Age: 18
(Added March 9, 2023)
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Alfred Hubert Lorenzo Poirier (Richmond Co., NS)
Lieutenant
Royal Canadian Regiment
Date of Death:
October 17, 1944
Age:
26
(Added March 9, 2023)
New WWII Remembrance Page
(Non-Nova Scotian WWII Casualties Buried in Nova Scotia)
Gordon William Coe
Able Seaman (DEMS Gunner)
Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship,
HMS President III, British Royal Navy
Date of Death:
March 5, 1943
Age: 21
(Added March 9, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Dixon, Lorne Emerson
Corporal
Eastern Air Command Marine Squadron, Dartmouth NS
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death: February 18, 1944
Age:
21
(Added March 12, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Walter Angus Sabean (Yarmouth Co.)
Private
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Date of Death: July 6, 1943
Age:
22
(Added March 12, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Douglas Roger Parker (b. Yarmouth, NS)
Flying Officer
407 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death: September 27, 1943
Age:
23
(Added March 13, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Harold Melville Rogers (b. Yarmouth, NS)
Flying Officer
421 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death: April 3, 1943
Age:
28
(Added March 13, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Leonard Arthur Dow (b. Yarmouth, NS)
Private
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, RCIC
Date of Death: July 25, 1943
Age:
22
(Added March 14, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Emile Joseph Roy Comeau (b. Yarmouth Co., NS)
Private
48th Highlanders of Canada
Date of Death: December 15, 1943
Age:
22
(Added March 15, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Frederick Michael Holobow
Warrant Officer Class I
489 (R.N.Z.A.F.) Squadron
Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death: April 13, 1943
Age:
21
(Added March 15, 2023)
April 2023
New WWII Remembrance Page
John Jeremiah Boudreau (b. Yarmouth NS)
Leading Seaman
Royal Canadian Navy Reserve
HMCS Raccoon
Date of Death: September 7, 1942
Age: 32
(Added March 16, 2023)
Non-Nova Scotian WWII Casualties
Buried in Nova Scotia
New Names added: March 16, 2023
Sigurd Yggeseth, Engineer
SS Lago, Norwegian Merchant Navy
b. Norway
d. Yarmouth NS (illness) May 9, 1940 Aged 49
Inglessis, Charilaos, Engineer
Greek Merchant Navy
b. Athens, Greece
d. Yarmouth NS (illness) February 9, 1945, Aged 46
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
SS St Malo
Lost on October 12, 1940, torpedoed
by U-101 (10 Nova Scotia seaman lost)
Photo: Carmen Richards/news clip added
(Updated March 16, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
HMCS Athabaskan
Lost on April 29, 1944,
(Photos and casualty information added)
(Updated March 16, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Leo Francis Toney (Kings Co.)
Private
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Date of Death: April 7, 1945
Age:
21
(Added March 17, 2023)
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Boyd Allison Dakin (b. Kings Co. NS)
Flight Sergeant
415 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death: June 28, 1942
Age: 21
(Added March 18, 2023)
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Elmont Gasper Prest
(b. Halifax Co. NS)
Flying Officer
415 (RAF) Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
August 18, 1943
Age: 29
(Added March 20, 2023)
New WWII Story
WWII Nova Scotia DEMS Gunners Casualties
Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship Gunners
(Added March 25, 2023)
New WWII Remembrance Page
Kenneth Leaman Lewis
Private First Class
C Battery, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti Aircraft),
Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, US Army
Date of Death: December 14, 1944
Age: 25
(Added April 1, 2023)
Updated WWI Article - Story Archive
Remembering Vimy Ridge
April 9, 2023 will be the 106th Anniversary
of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
updated names of wounded Yarmouth Co., NS soldiers.
(Added April 2, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Joseph Omar Asseff (Victoria Co., NS)
Private
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Date of Death: April 13, 1941
Age:
22
(Added April 2, 2023)
New WWII Remembrance Page
Wilfred Dean Coolen (b. Fox Point, Lunenburg Co., NS)
Private
33rd Armored Regiment,
3rd Armored Division, US Army
Date of Death: September 22, 1944
Age: 28
(Added April 3, 2023)
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Neil Duff McSween
Corporal
182nd Infantry Regiment, Americal Division, US Army
Date of Death: December 27, 1943
Age: 27
(Added April 4, 2023)
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Philip Douglas Quinlan
Seaman First Class
USS Juneau (CL-52), US Navy
Date of Death: November 13, 1942
Age: 20
(Added April 6, 2023)
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Carleton LeRoy Feener
Technical Representative
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co.,
Mission with British and US Army Air Force
Date of Death:
November 20, 1944
Age: 24
(Added April 8, 2023)
New WWII Remembrance Page
John Delmont Rogers
Electrician's Mate First Class
USS Runner (SS-275), US Submarine Force, US Navy
Date of Death: July 11, 1943
Age: 24
(Added April 8, 2023)
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Lawrence Holmes Flynn
Sergeant
Company C, 1st Marine Raider Battalion
Edson’s Raiders), United States Marine Corps
Date of Death: July 9, 1943
Age: 22
(Added April 12, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
Those with Nova Scotian Connection Killed in Action
June 6, 1944
(Added April 13, 2023)
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Robert Wilson Hickson
Private
Company B, 1st Battalion, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division, US Army
Date of Death: June 6, 1944
Age: 26
(Added April 13, 2023)
New WWII Remembrance Page
Leroy Elmer Brown
Private First Class
5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)
Merrill’s Marauders, US Army
Date of Death: April 1, 1944
Age: 22
(Added April 13, 2023)
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Malcolm Roy Edgar Day Metcalfe (b. Glace Bay, Cape Breton)
Flight Sergeant
408 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death: May 5, 1943
Age: 19
(Added April 14, 2023)
New WWII Remembrance Page
Edward Jensen (Lunenburg)
Captain
Sailing Vessel Angelus
Canadian Merchant Navy
Date of Death: May 19, 1943
Age: 42
(Added April 14, 2023)
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Currie Boland Morris
Seaman Second Class
USS Abner Read (DD-526),
United States Navy Reserve
Date of Death: August 18, 1943
Age: 23
(Added April 16, 2023)
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Howard Thomas Burns
First Lieutenant
Marine Fighting Squadron 111,
Marine Aircraft Group 31,
4th Marine Base Defense Aircraft Wing,
United States Marine Corps
Date of Death:
July 7, 1944
Age: 23
(Added April 16, 2023)
Updated WWII Remembrance Page
George Patrick Ivon Goodin
Company F, 354th Infantry Regiment,
89th Division, US Army
Date of Death: April 20, 1944
Age: 24
(Added April 22, 2023)
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Kenneth David Nicol
Second Lieutenant
404th Bomber Squadron, 28th Bomber Group (Heavy)
11th Air Force, United States Army Air Forces
Date of Death:
November 18, 1943
Age: 23
(Added April 22, 2023)
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Roderick Lee Nicol
Private First Class
Company A, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Division, US Army
Date of Death:
July 7, 1944
Age: 21
(Added April 22, 2023)
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Paul James Connery
Private First Class
Company M, 3rd Battalion,
21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division,
United States Marine Corps Reserve
Date of Death:
December 15, 1943
Age: 21
(Added April 24, 2023)
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Alec Monroe Sim
Second Lieutenant
Company C, 1st Marine Corps Raider Battalion
(Edson’s Raiders), United States Marine Corps Reserve
Date of Death:
July 20, 1943
Age: 23
(Added April 25, 2023)
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Edgar Percy Beaver
Flight Officer
885th Bomb Squadron (Heavy), Special Operations,
15th Air Force, USAAF
Date of Death:
December 23, 1944
Age: 23
(Added April 27, 2023)
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Allan MacMillan Morton
Lieutenant Junior Grade
Naval Aviation, United States Naval Reserve
Date of Death: October 14
, 1944
Age: 23
(Added April 27, 2023)