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Nickerson,George. Private in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders was the son of William Eldridge and Eliza Jane (Davis) Nickerson. George had eight brothers and five sisters.

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Huskilson, William St. Clair. 415th Swordfish Squadron. RCAF. 1923 to1944.
1943

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Huskilson, William St. "Clair", Flying Officer in the Royal Canadian Airforce wrote a letter to friends in Shelburne on 3 August 1944, three months before his death.
"...Suppose you know I am an old married man now, and am trying to struggle through operations over here, so I can return to Canada and live once again."

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Jackson, Arthur Thomas. Sapper. 6th Canadian Field Company. Royal Canadian Engineers. 1912 to 1944.
1944

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Jackson, Arthur Thomas F86600. Sapper. 6th Canadian Field Company. Born 7 December 1912 in Shelburne; killed in action in the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944. Son of Albert Lewis and Christina "Chrissie" Mae (Buchanan) Jackson. His seven brothers, all served in the Canadian Army, Lewis, Douglas, Alex, Robie, William, Bruce and Earle. His other sibling was a sister, Ada.
Art married Mary "Ellen" Crowell and they had a daughter Sandra Diane and a son, Albert Eugene.
He had worked as a carpenter at the W C McKay Shipyard, Shelburne, and trained with the militia before he enlisted at Bridgewater on 6 July 1941. He was attached to a Tank Battalion at Sherbrooke, Quebec and on 12 March 1942 he was a sapper stationed at Petawawa, Ontario. He arrived overseas in July 1942. Art took a number of trades courses and was qualified as a concretor "B" and a bricklayer "C". He received a Good Conduct Badge on 2 July 1943. Art was assisting the infantry in taking the beaches of Normandy when he was killed. Buried at Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Grave 6, Row F, Plot 11, Reviers, Calvados, France.

A letter to his wife written by Acting Major T.R. Miller, the Officer Commanding the 6th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers describes the bravery of Art:
Dear Mrs. Jackson:
It is with great difficulty I write to you of your husband's death. The time must have been very long indeed waiting for news, but we had to be sure you had heard through official channels first.
I realize how much you must have loved Spr. Jackson because he had been in my platoon for over a year, during whch time his cheerful temperament had been a morale booster for us all. Although it is small consolation, I feel you should know the facts surrounding his death. Spr. Jackson was with one of the engineering teams which assisted the infantry in taking the beaches of Normandy. Carrying explosive charges to be used on enemy concrete emplacements, his section was met by heavy machine gun fire and Spr Jackson was mortally wounded. He accepted this dangerous task as cheerfully as any other task and you should be very proud of him because were it not for men like him the Invasion would never have been successful.
I join with you and your family in your great sorrow, and I extend my most heart felt sympathy.

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Atwood, Norman Burnell. Fireman. Canadian Merchant Navy. 1907 to1942.
1940

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Atwood, Norman Burnell, serving in the Canadian Merchant Navy, was born 8 November 1907 in Barrington Head to Winford Coleman and Mable Edith (Garron) Atwood. He had eleven siblings, including, Percy who had been killed in 1941 at Hong Kong, and three other brothers, Benjamin, Herman and Clayton, who also served in World War II and returned home at the end of the war.

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Brannen, Herbert Malcolm. Private. North Nova Scotia Highlanders. 1919 to 1945.
1943

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Brannen, Herbert Malcolm F16767. Private in Nova Scotia Highlanders. Born 28 May 1919 in Stoney Island, Shelburne County; killed in action on 26 March 1945 in Germany. Son of William Weldon "Dick" and Hildred Innes (Penney) Brannen. Herbert had seven brothers, Fred and Joseph (in the army) Paul, Norman , Wallace, Rodney(deceased ) and Asa (also killed in action), as well as three sisters, Alice, Blanche and Eva.

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Crowell, Maurice 'John'. Private.
1944

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Crowell, Maurice 'John". Private. Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. 1915-1945.
The Smith Museum at Centreville, Cape Sable Island has two letters that were written by Johnny. One dated 24 December 1944, is a thank-you for Christmas presents.
...You know over here we really appreciate anything you people send such as candy, cigarettes and cake and anything like that we can't get over here if you had a million dollars as there is none to be got...
The second letter was written from Holland on 11 February 1945, He briefly describes the country "...here you never see a wooden building, I guess they use all their wood to make shoes and build their houses out of stone and brick. I don't think I would like to live here as it is too wet and muddy and now that the war is on and the dykes blown up the whole place is flooded. I am out of the front lines right now for a couple of days on a sort of rest. I wish I was out for the rest of the war but I guess.
Johnny was killed in action on 8 March 1945 in Germany.

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Bower, Horace Lent Churchill. Lance Corporal. West Nova Scotia Regiment. 1919 to 1943
1942

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Bower, Horace Lent Chruchill. Lance Corporal. West Nova Scotia Regiment. 1919 to 1943.

Roblin Bower includes in his notes on the West Nova Regiment:
I and my cousin Horace Bower, Lower Ohio, came to Shelburne and enlisted for active service on Saturday Spt. 2nd, 1939 and we and 35 or 40 others from Shelburne were taken to Bridgewater that same night by Chandley Smith's barrel truck! ...
Quite often on Saturday [in Sussex, England] Buster and I would get passes and train warrants and take the electric train into London. Usually we went to the Beaver Club at Trafalgar Square to look over Canadian papers or to take in a stage show if there were tickets at the Club. One day we went and they had 2 for the showing of "Gone With the Wind" at Leicester Square Theatre and we took that in. They usually had tickets that were donated for the troops on leave...
We always went on leave together sometimes to London, once to Wales and once to Birmingham. But usually we got travel warrants to Scotland and went either to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Dundee or Perth. We liked the Highlands best and the Inverness area was a favorite. Once we were lucky enough to get to the Highland Games at Inverness!
During our time in England "Buster" was a staff car driver for the CO and covered most of the roads in southern England. On our arrival in Sicily there were no staff cars to drive so he tranferrd to "D" Co. as a section leader as he was a fully trained soldier...
L/Cpl. Buster Bower was killed in action in Sicily at Mount Criscana on 2nd August 1943. He was in charge of a forward section of "D"Co and was carrying the Bren Gun and was shot by a German sniper, I missed him very much as we had signed up together at Shelburne and most of the time we were together wherever the regiment went. Buster is buried at the Canadian Military Cemetery at Agira, Sicily. West Nova Scotia Veterans held a Memorial Service there on May 19th, 1990.

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DeMoliter, William Daniel. Flight Sergeant. Air Gunner.
1942