Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 115 continued ... continued ... 16 October - Private Russell WilliamMacumber of Bramber was wounded, while Private Clearance Murray Power of Sydney Mines suffered his second wound of the war. 17 October- a training accident (explosion of a grenade or mortar shell) near Kure, Japan, on October 17 killed two soldiers and accidentally wounded 13 others. Amongst the accidentally wounded were Lance Corporal Louis Wilson Barkhouse of Thorburn; and Privates George Raymond Canning of Parrsboro and Claude Joseph Gaudet of Halifax. 22 October – Private Charles Herbert Chute of Bear River was injured in action. On October 23rd the Royal Canadian Regiment had been holding “Little Gibraltar" since early September. That morning Little Gibraltar (aka Hill 355) came under heavy artillery attack and Chinese forces assaulted the hill. The Canadians were pushed off some positions but were able to recapture those positions by nightfall. 23 October – Lance Corporal William Edward Johnstone of Westville was listed as missing in action (believed killed). Private James Joseph Pender of Halifax and Lance Corporal Earl Lester Ray of Latties Brook were wounded. Private Elmer McInnis, of Florence, served with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment and was taken prisoner on the night of 23rd October. He was listed as ‘missing in action, presumed dead.’ His family would not know if he was dead or alive until 23 April 1953, when a released Canadian POW, told authorities that he knew Elmer was alive. Cape Breton soldiers, Privates William Dawson of Reserve Mines, Angus Weldon McInnis of Glace Bay, and Charles Joseph Morrison of Glace Bay served together in “B” Company of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment. They died together on 23rd October at “Little Gibraltar” when they were caught in an ambush. William Dawson was the son of James and Agnes Dawson. He was the fourth eldest son of three brothers and four sisters. Angus McInnis was the son of Norman and Sarah McInnis of Passchendaele and the brother of Norman William, Hugh Joseph, Donnie Joseph and Wilma May. Charles Morrison was the son of John J. Morrison and brother of John, Michael, Fabian, Roderick, and Isabel. The next day another member of “B” Company of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment was killed at Little Gibraltar. Nineteen-year-old Private John Walter Hilton was from Dartmouth (he was only 17-years-old when he enlisted in the RCR). He was the son of Winfred and Delia Hilton and the brother of William, Ann and Winifred. 24 October - Private Edward Malcolm Campbell of Sydney Forks was wounded. 28 October – Privates John Henry Perry of Reserve Mines, Joseph Vernon Leroy Swann of Halifax and Boyd Allison Rand of Cambridge Station were wounded. (NOTE: Mr. Swann was awarded the Canadian Medal of Bravery on September 24, 1984.) 30 October - Private Eldridge Matthew Stewart of Shelburne was wounded. Elmer McInnis William Dawson Angus McInnis John Hilton Charles Morrison Boyd Rand
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