Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 117 continued ... The Nova Scotia troopers of the Kangaroo Regiment continued ... Trooper George William Hemmings was born in Pictou in 1922. In 1945, before returning home to Canada, he married Margaretha Houtenbrink, of Amsterdam. After the war George and Margaretha spent much of their working lives with Alberta Government Telephone (now TELUS). They had two daughters, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. George died in 2008 and is buried alongside of his wife in the Queen's Park Cemetery and Mausoleum in Calgary. Trooper Clyde Straughn Hennigar was born in Carleton, Yarmouth County, in 1925 and was the oldest son of the late Dr. Clyde S Hennigar and E. Marguerite Ulhman. George attended Carleton's two room school and KCS in Windsor NS. He enlisted in the army at age 17. Upon arrival In France, he was posted directly to Kangaroos. After the war Clyde married Ilene Velva Richardson. He was a lifelong member of Branch 61, Yarmouth, and died in Yarmouth in 2018. Trooper Percy Gordon Humphery was born in Surrey, England. He was 18 years old and living in Halifax when, in 1938, he married 17-year-old Norma Estelle Patterson, of Canaan Forks, NB. Percy and Norma had four children; ten grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; and 2 great-great grandchildren. They were married for over 50 years and members of the Branch 95, Bedford, of the Royal Canadian Legion. Trooper Donald Edward Kelly was born in Halifax in 1922. On 14 June 1944, prior to going overseas as a member of the 8th Princess Louise (NB) Hussars, he married Etta Dolorosa. Shortly after arriving in England, he was posted to the Kangaroos in France. Donald and Etta had three daughters, five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Donald Edward Kelly died in 1964; Etta died in 2013. Trooper Robert Rayould Langille was born in Amherst in 1918 and married Jessie May Brine in 1936. He enlisted in the army in Truro. After the war he served for several years in the RCMP. Robert died on 30April 1996 in Brantford, Brant County, ON. Craftsman John Alexander McSween, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, served in the 123 LAD as a heavy-duty mechanic. Craftsman John Alexander McSween, of Glasgow, CB, died in the veteran’s hospital in Pictou on 11 June 2011 at the age of 89. G W Hemmings C S Hennigar D E Kelly R R Langille
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