Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 179 MARTIN, Frank WWII & PEACETIME Frank was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1924. He served with the Army during World War II, with the Service Corps in Camp Borden, Ontario; Soest Germany, and inWinnipeg. Frank received the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, and Special Service Medal NATO. Frank passed away in 2005. Submitted by Peace Branch #060, The Royal Canadian Legion McKENZIE, John Stanley “Stan” WWII Stan was born in Channel-Port-Aux-Basque, Newfoundland on July 1, 1918. He went to sea at the age of sixteen and for a couple of years worked on sailing schooners and costal vessels. In 1939, he joined the Merchant Navy, serving on many different freighters. The first large freighter was the S.S. Cornerbrook, and others were the S.S. Cornwallis, S.S. Meagle and the S.S. Kitty’s Brook. He was on the Kitty’s Brook when she was lost to U-588 on May 9, 1942 off the coast of Nova Scotia. The survivors rowed for two and a half days coming ashore at Lockeport. After the Kitty’s Brook sinking, he joined several other ships, the S.S. Mayfair Park, and the S.S. Springbank Park. In April 1944, Stan joined the RCMP patrol boat St. Roch in Halifax as a special constable and made the east to west voyage through the Northwest Passage in 86 days. He left the St. Roch in Vancouver in December returning to the east coast and then sailed on several small freighters. In May 1945, he joined the Liberty Ship Joseph A. Brown in Halifax and sailed to Europe where she was the first ship up the canal to Antwerp, Belgium after that city’s liberation. After the war, Stan worked on the MV Inverleigh sailing from Yarmouth to Boston. From 1950 to 1956, he worked for Walter Sweeney’s Fisheries Ltd. as a chief engineer on several of their coastal ships as well as their chief shore engineer inYarmouth. In January 1956, he joined the MV Bluenose sailing the Yarmouth-Bar Harbor run and remained with her until 1976 when he retired as third engineer. He received the 1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 19391945, Polar Medal 1944. Stan then lived with Olive, his wife of 56 years, in Arcadia, Yarmouth County. He has a son, Bill, daughter, Robyn, who both reside inYarmouth County. Three grandsons make up the remainder of his immediate family. Stan passed away on April 12, 2011. Submitted by Family
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