Name: Howard Leslie Pye Rank: Private Service Number: F/88060 Service: 1st Canadian Ordnance Beach Detachment, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Date of Birth: December 8, 1913 Place of Birth: Liscomb, Guysborough County, NS Date of Enlistment: June 26, 1941 Place of Enlistment: Antigonish, NS Age at Enlistment: 27 Address at Enlistment: Liscomb, Guysborough County, NS Height: 5 feet, 43/4 inches Complexion: Dark Hair colour: Black Eye colour: Hazel Marital Status: Single (at enlistment), married September 1942 Next of Kin: Ida Alexandria Pye (Mother), then Elizabeth Pye (Wife) Occupation: Fisherman Religion: Church of England Date of Death: January 24, 1943 Age: 29 Cemetery: Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England Grave: Section 39, Row E, Grave 9 Commemorated on Page 205 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on April 26 Howard was the son of Leonard Whitmore Pye (1871-1935) and Ida Alexandria (Hartling) Pye (1889- 1978), and the husband of Elizabeth Violet (Knight) Pye (1921-2005). Howard had six siblings, Alma Kathleen Pye (1909–1959), Stuart Allison Pye (1910–1994), Amy Rebecca (Pye) Ward (b. 1912), Caroline Davison (Pye) Hatton (1916–1999), Ida Leone (Pye) Fullham (b. 1917), and Margaret Jane Pye (b. 1919). Howard enlisted in June of 1941. After training in Canada, and married Elizabeth on September 24, 1942, he departed Canada on October 28, 1942, disembarking in the UK November 5, 1942. His wife was living at 206 Grafton St, Halifax NS, and later moved to 166 Jubilee Road. He was serving with the 1st Canadian Ordnance Beach Detachment of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps in the Scotland at the time of his death. He was admitted to hospital on January 22, 1943, with a cerebral hemorrhage and septicemia, and died of a heart attack two days later January 24, 1943 at 5:28 pm. Private Howard Leslie Pye was interred at the Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, England. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.