Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 105 The sons of Jacob and Emma Rhuland of Mahone Bay: RHULAND, John Albert (222585) John enlisted in the 85th Battalion in Halifax on October 20, 1915. He declared that his next of kin was his wife, Mrs. Elsie Rhuland of Mahone Bay; that he was a blacksmith; and that he had been born on October 26, 1885, in Mahone Bay. John was wounded twice during the war and passed away in Halifax in 1965. His son Dennis served in the West Nova Scotia Regiment during WWII. RHULAND, William Harold (222586) William served in the 85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders) and was listed as missing on October 30, 1917. He was killed during the Highlanders successful, yet very costly, attack on an objective known to the troops by its battle designator of “Vienna Cottage” just west of the town of Passchendaele. William is memorialized on a regimental monument that now stands on the “start line” of their final battle overlooking the Vienna Cottage. His body was never recovered and he is formally memorialized upon the walls of the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium. RODENHISER, John “Jack” Cecil (3182955) Jack was a farmer living in Lunenburg County when he was conscripted into the 1st Depot Battalion of the NS Regiment at Aldershot on May 21, 1918. He declared that he had been born in Lunenburg on March 7, 1895 and that his next of kin was his mother Mrs. Lottie B. Rodenhiser of East Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Local history notes that he was wounded during the war. His name is included on a list of boys who attended the Mahone Bay School and served in the military during the Great War. The sons of Halliburton and Seletes Rost of Mahone Bay: ROST, Emery Halliburton 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. ROST, Earle Alexander 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 next of kin 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. SALTSMAN, Fred Everett (314249) Fred enlisted in the CFA in Halifax on February 11, 1916 and was posted to the 11th CFA (Howitzer) Brigade Ammunition Column. He stated that he had been born in Maders Cove on November 17, 1887; he was a book keeper; he had three years of service experience as a reservist with the Canadian Garrison Artillery; and that his next of kin was his father Henry Saltsman of Mahone Bay. Fred passed away in 1974 and is buried in Mahone Bay. SAWLER, Orpheus (283204) Orpheus was born on December 17, 1894 in Gold River and enlisted in the 219th Battalion on March 28, 1916 in Mahone Bay. He declared that he was fisherman; had six months service in No. 1 Siege Company; and that his wife, Sadie Sawler of Gold River was his next of kin. His name was noted on a 1927 hand-written list of veterans found in the Mahone Bay Legion in January 2015. World War I Veterans from Mahone Bay, NS continued....
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