Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 119 Highlanders on 26 Dec 1940. As Lieutenant, he went overseas in 1941. After Commando training in Scotland, he returned to Canada and the U.S. with the 1 Canadian Paratroop Battalion. As Major, he led his company on D-Day, pathfinders for the Airborne Division. The night of June 5-6 was moonless with patchy cloud and winds gusting up to 20 mph. The paratroopers landed between 0100 and 0130 hours on 6 June. With no homing devices, and due to high winds and flak the paratroopers landed over a wider area than planned and many were lost. Despite the losses one group of paratroopers quickly destroyed the bridge over the Divette river. The remaining men, under the command of Major MacLeod, attacked a chateau in Varaville where a German pillbox and 75mm anti-tank gun covered the Varaville road. The Canadians came under heavy fire, and shell fire from the 75mm gun killed five men including Major MacLeod. He was 25 years old. Major Hugh MacLeod was buried at the Ranville War Cemetery in Ranville, Calvados, in Normandy France. Private Alexander Joseph McInnis, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Canadian Army Alexander was born on 9 Feb 1916 in Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S. He was the son of Daniel and Jane (MacEachern) McInnis. Alexander came from a large family with 4 brothers and 9 sisters. Prior to enlistment, he was working for the Dominion Bridge Construction Company. On enlistment, on 21 July 1942, he volunteered to be a paratrooper. He trained at Fort Benning in Georgia, U.S., for 6 months, where he received his jump wings as a paratrooper. He was subsequently stationed at Shilo in Manitoba in April of 1943, and was sent overseas that same year. Private McInnis was killed in action on the first day, 6 June 1944. He was 28 years old. With no known grave, Private McInnis is remembered on the Bayeux Memorial within the grounds of the Bayeux War Cemetery in Bayeux, France. Private Harry Garnet Moore, 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Harry was born on 18 April 1911 in Kentville, N.S. He was the son of Charles and Lulu Moore and brother of ten siblings, 5 brothers and 5 sisters. Harry enlisted in the Canadian Army on 12 Jan 1943, in Kentville with the No. 84 Company of the RCASC. Private Moore served in Canada from Jan 1943 until July 1943, and in England from July 1943 until 6 June of 1944, when he died during the opening hours of the Normandy landings. He was reported as missing in action and presumably died of wounds or drowned. With no known grave, he is remembered on the Bayeux Memorial at the Bayeux War Cemetery in Bayeux, France. continued ... continued ...
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