Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 179 ROBICHEAU, Ronald James PEACETIME Ronald was born in Digby, NS, in 1934. He served with the RCR in Germany and Cyprus. He was a member of Digby Branch #020 of The Royal Canadian Legion for 21 years. Ronald passed away in 1997. Submitted by Digby Branch #020 of The Royal Canadian Legion. ROST, Earl Alexander WWI Earl, like many other Mahone Bay Great War Volunteers, would also serve in Nova Scotia’s 25th Battalion of the CEF. Earl, a 20-year-old carpenter, enlisted in Lunenburg on January 7, 1916, where he gave his place of birth as being Mahone Bay and his NOK as being his father, Haliburton Rost. The 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles) was subjected to heavy artillery shelling on August 16, 1917, and Earl became one of the 103 Battalion members killed that day near Hill 70. His remains are buried somewhere in the Loos British Cemetery (Canadian Cemetery # 2) France. Submitted by Mahone Bay Branch #049 of The Royal Canadian Legion. RUTHERFORD, Frederic Clark WWII Fred, son of Frank and Violet (Clark) Rutherford of Middle Stewiacke, was born in 1925. He was a Leading Aircraftsman with the RCAF. He spent some time at Frobisher Bay. He married Margaret (Peggy) Suttis of Halfway Brook. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society. ROST, Emery Haliburton WWI Emery was the son of Haliburton Rost. He is buried in Mahone Bay and is listed in the CWGC records as belonging to the Canadian “Special Service Troops.” Emery would live to go overseas. His death would come as a result of one of the largest explosions of the Great War while he was training at Wellington Barracks in Halifax. He would become one of the nearly 2,000 people who were killed in the Halifax Explosion on December 6, 1917. Submitted by Mahone Bay Branch #049 of The Royal Canadian Legion.
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