Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 103 continued ... 28 April - Lance Corporal Anthony William Edmond of Glace Bay was wounded. 30 April - Private Francis Russell Bouchie of Mulgrave was wounded. Second Lieutenant Joseph Yehudi Levison was the son of Felix and Ivelda Levison of Halifax. Joseph left his studies at Dalhousie University to enlist in the special force. He served as a Canadian Army public relations officer with the 25th Canadian Public Relations Unit and arrived in Korea in December 1950. Second Lieutenant Levinson was attached to 2 PPCLI. On 26 May, he was returning from the RCR area with Derek Pearcey, a Reuters Journalist, when their vehicle struck an anti-tank mine. Both men were killed, along with a British soldier. Cecil Robert Ellsworth Fancy of Mahone Bay served in the Royal Canadian Regiment. Cecil was the son of Cecil Clayton and Eva Martha Fancy. He, and his father, served in WW II; his father was killed in Italy. Private Fancy is listed as dying an accidental death at the 121 Evacuation Hospital in Seoul on 5 June. 6 June – Major Harry Barlow Boates, MC, of Westville and Private Sidney Herman Cuff of Sydney were wounded. 11 June - Corporal Arthur Clarke of Maccan and Private William James McLellan of New Waterford were wounded. Everett Cameron Buchanan served in the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He was from North Sydney and was the husband of Patricia Mae Buchanan, the son of Everett Cameron and Margaret Rachel Buchanan Gwinn, the brother of Norman Angus and half-brother of Earl MacLeod Gwinn and David William Gwinn. Private Buchanan drowned in the Kyobashi River, Hiroshima, Japan, on 30 June. He is buried Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan. 6 July - Private Clifford Benedict Nicholson of Westville was wounded. In early July peace negotiations began at Kaesong between the Communists and a delegation of the UN Security Council. On 10 July it became clear that the Chinese expect the UN to surrender. The UN declined. Private Michael Alexander Dunphy was from North Sydney and was the son of Thomas and Jennie Dunphy. Lance Corporal Harold Smart was born in Avondale, Queen's County, and was the son of Ernest Charles Francis and Florence Helen Smart. Both men served in 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Michael Alexander Dunphy and Harold Smart were killed in action when their patrol was struck by machine gun fire near Kadon-Ni in the Chorwon valley on 11 July. They are buried beside each other. 11 July – Private Kenneth Albert Wakeman of Halifax was wounded. 20 July - Gunner Kenneth Robert of Berwick was wounded. Able Seaman Robert John Moore of the Royal Canadian Navy served on HMCS Sioux. Robert was born in Yarmouth and was the son of Herbert John and Mary Elizabeth Moore and the brother of William Henry, Victor Alexander, and Mildred Constance. On 21 July Robert was travelling from Vancouver to Tokyo aboard Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-4 Flight 3505 (UN chartered). The plane crashed into the sea in the Gulf of Alaska. His body was never recovered. Robert is commemorated on the Korean War Naval Memorial in Calgary. Joseph Levison Harry Boates William McMcLellan continued ... Robert Moore
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