Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 107 EISENHAUR, Maurice WWI Maurice was 29 years old when he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on April 12, 1918 in Halifax. He served overseas with the 21st Battalion (The Princess of Wales Own Regiment) from eastern Ontario. While serving with the Battalion, he suffered from physiological wounds brought on by incessant shelling (a.k.a. “shell shock”) and later the internal wounds inflicted during a gas attack. Maurice developed pneumonia and was invalided home to Canada. He died in December 1919. Submitted by the Mahone Bay Branch # 049 of The Royal Canadian Legion ELLIS, Hugh Dennison WWI Hugh, born in 1888, was the son of Willard and Annie West (Dean) Ellis of Eastville and was a clerk before enlisting in the Army as a driver. After the war, he helped his father operate a business in Truro. Hugh died suddenly in 1934, while hunting in the Eastville area. Hugh never married. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society ELLIS, Marion Dean WWI Marion was born in Eastville in 1885, daughter of Willard and Annie West (Dean) Ellis. She went to the Boston area and trained as a Registered Nurse. She nursed in England and then enlisted as a Nursing Sister during WWI. Marion retired to Rochester, New York in 1944 and passed away there in 1967. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society
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