Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 111 The Nova Scotia troopers of the Kangaroo Regiment continued ... The following Nova Scotians served in the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment, or the unit’s attached elements. It was not possible to conclusively identify all of these ‘Kangaroos’. Trooper John Andrew Apblett was born in 1922 in Cape Breton. He married Mildred Eileen Eilene MacLeod on 23 May 1941 in Dominion. John died in 1985 and is buried in the Harwood Hill Cemetery in Sydney. Lance Corporal Carl Vernon Atkinson was born in 1925 in West Head, Cape Sable Island. He was an active member of the regimental association and the Royal Canadian Legion. Carl died in 2016 and is buried in the Oakvale Cemetery in Clark’s Harbour. Trooper Loris Keith Barkhouse was born in Church Lake, Lunenburg County, in 1920. During the war he suffered a wound that left him with bullet fragments in his left leg for the rest of his life. After the war Loris found work in the fishing industry. In 1951 he married Genevieve Curll and they had four children. Loris was a member of Passchendaele Branch 49 RCL, Mahone Bay; he died in 1979 in the Veterans Unit of the Fisherman's Memorial Hospital in Lunenburg. Loris is buried in the Farmville Cemetery. One of the pallbearers at his funeral was a fellow member of the Kangaroo Regiment - Francis Whynot MM. Trooper Lawrence Frederick Bellefontaine was born in 1921 in West Chezzetcook and enlisted in the Canadian Army in February 1943. In May he was posted to Borden, ON, to train as a crewman with the Canadian Armoured Corps. Lawrence arrived in England in April 1944 and went ashore in France in late July as a guardsman in the Governor General's Foot Guards. On 1 September he was posted to the 1CAPC Sqn. J AApblett C V Atkinson L K Barkhouse L F Bellefontaine continued ...
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