Name: Salvatore Anthony Filippone Rank: Second Lieutenant Service Number: Officer Service: Halifax Rifles, Canadian Army Date of Birth: February 3, 1912 Place of Birth: Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Date of Enlistment: January 19, 1940 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 27 Height: 5 feet, 6 ½ inches Complexion: Dark Hair Colour: Black Eye Colour: Brown Occupation: Psychiatry Religion: Roman Catholic Marital Status: Married Next of Kin: Eileen Mary Fillipone (Wife), 176 Robie St, Halifax, NS Date of Death: November 24, 1943 Age: 31 Cemetery: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey Grave: Plot 33, Tier P, Section 2, Grave 2 Commemorated on Page 159 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on April 3 Salvatore Anthony Filippone was the son of Anthony George Filippone (1885-1943) and Petrina (Polito) Filippone (1892-1982), and the brother of Rose Filippone (1908-2000), Marian Filippone (1914-1978), and Lillian Filippone (1916-2015). His father was born in Petralia Sottana, in Sicily, Italy, and immigrated to the United States from Naples, Italy aboard the SS Madonna in 1906. Records also list the family surname as Fillippone, Filiponne and Filliponne. Anthony married Eileen Mary Shute (1915-2009) on January 29, 1935, at St. Mary’s Church on Spring Garden Road, and they had a one daughter Annie Petrina Filippone (b. 1938) and a son Anthony Robert Filippone. He had a Bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University in Orange Co., New Jersey (1933), and diploma in Education (1936-1937) from Dalhousie University, and 2 years post graduate study in Psychology in his second year of medical residency at Columbus Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. After enlisting in January 1940, Salvatore first served with the Halifax Rifles until March 3, 1940, when he transferred to the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps with the 22nd Field Ambulance until May 14, 1940. He attended Junior Non-Commissioned Officer’s training in September 1940 and completed the Quartermaster Course in April 1941. He was briefly hospitalised with a broken arm at the Halifax Military Hospital from August 20-27, 1941. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in July 1941 and completed the Instructor’s Course in September 1941. He also served as an Orderly Room Clerk, responsible for correspondence and unit administration, and served at No. 60 Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre in Yarmouth, NS, Aldershot in Kings Co., NS, and Mulgrave, in Guysborough Co., NS. There was an Army Supply Depot and military hospital at Mulgrave. He transferred from the Halifax Rifles to No. 60 Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre (Camp 60), in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and was to be assigned to the Directorate of Personnel Selection on January 15, 1942. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on August 22, 1942, and was assigned to be a Personnel Selection Officer in September of 1942. He served in Yarmouth from August 17 - September 5, 1942. He was then attached to District Headquarters in Halifax. He was discharged on November 26, 1942, as medically unfit for service due to illness, and died a year later of pulmonary tuberculosis on November 24, 1943. At the time of his death, his wife Eileen was living at 27 Henry Street in Halifax. Two other American-born soldiers who died while serving in the Canadian Army include Private William Arnold Yorke born in Boston, Massachusetts (West NS Regiment), and Private James Logan Hamilton, born in Malden, Mass. (North NS Highlanders). Salvatore Anthony Filippone was interred at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave