Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 67 continued ... The final combat action of the NSR remains a painful memory as 10 men were killed fighting towards the bridge over the Ems River in Leer, Germany, on 24 April, 1945. The regimental history would bitterly recount “a most useless attack as the bridge was out and any of the air observation posts could have given this information at any time in the preceding two days.” Nova Scotians killed in that futile attack were Corporal Sydney Mosher (Bridgewater) and Privates Francis Mulcahy (Halifax) and Edmund Sampson (Cannes, Richmond Co). Finally, Private Marshall McLaren Hodgson (Country Harbour) seriously wounded (gunshot wounds to head and spine) during the D-Day assault in 1944, was immediately evacuated to the 1st Neurological unit, RCAMC, on the beach. He was stabilized and admitted to a hospital in the UK on 31 July 1944; was evacuated to Halifax in early August and then onto to the rehabilitation wing of the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Hospital, in Montreal, on 1 September. He was discharged and sent home in December 1944. He died on 23 June, 1945, due to meningitis and pneumonia attributable to his war wounds. Private Cavanagh Private Sampson Lest We Forget
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