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Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 141 COX, Kathleen Mabel WWII Kathleen, daughter of James and Stella (Bates) Cox of South Branch, was born in 1915 and received her Registered Nursing degree from the Nova Scotia Hospital in 1941, enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1943 and was sent overseas, nursing in England, Holland and Germany, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. She spent two months nursing Russian ex-prisoners of war from the German Concentration Camps. After the war, she married Harry Winters and when he died she returned to South Branch and built a house on the Meadowvale Road. She passed away in 1995. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society COX, Roland Grant “Bub” WWII Bub, as he was known, was born in 1919, the son of Grant and Mary Jane (Smith) Cox of Otter Brook Road. He enlisted in the No. 6 District Depot of the Canadian Army in 1941 and served in England and Continental Europe working on a Brenn Gun Carrier. He married Jean Smith of Londonderry Station and lived in Kitchener, ON. He passed away in 1969. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society COX, Ula Bessie WWII Ula, daughter of Reuben and Etta (Taylor) Cox of South Branch, was born in 1921 and served overseas in the Army Dental Corps. She married Frank Ernst, a dentist and they lived in Lunenburg. She passed away in 2003. Submitted by the Stewiacke Valley Historical Society

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