Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 121 continued ... Trooper Thomas James 'Joe E' Morris. ‘Joe’ was born in Sydney and served overseas in the Governor General’s Footguards of the Canadian Armoured Corps (many of the troopers the Kangaroos were drawn from that regiment). Upon returning from the war he attended Pictou Academy and Mount Alison University. Joe married Jean and lived in various places in the Maritimes before returning to Sydney and eventually Port Hawkesbury. He worked for Sherriff’s Foods, General Motors Maritimes Division, Sampson Motors, B&D Concrete andAtlantic Concrete. The car business was a natural for Joe and the concrete business brought him to Port Hawkesbury during the construction boom years in the late 1960’s. He also ran the Imperial Oil Distribution Plant in Port Hawkesbury for several years. He member of the Port Hawkesbury Curling Club and The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 43. Thomas James Morries died in the Port Hawkesbury Nursing Home on 13 April 2016. Lance Corporal Charles George Ringer was a Group “C” driver/mechanic and was posted to the Kangaroos on 6 October 1944. He was born in Northfield, Queens County. Charles died in 1996 and is buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery. Corporal Lawson D Ross was posted to the Kangaroos as a Group “C” driver/mechanic, on October 1944. It is very likely that he is the Lawson Daniel Ross who was born in East Branch, River John, Pictou County, on 9 October 1915. Lawson Daniel Ross married Ruth Agnes MacKay on 10 June 1949 at New Glasgow, Pictou County. Craftsman W F Ross was a heavy-duty mechanic of 123 LAD. William Farquhar “Frank” Ross was born in St Peter’s, Richmond County, on 30 December 1907. He died on 1 February 1965 and is buried in the Lakeview Cemetery in St. Peter's. Trooper Issac Wilkins Ruggles was born on 12 August 1908 in Lequille, Annapolis County. He enlisted in the 2nd Battalion of the West Nova Scotia Regiment 15 July 1940. Private Issac Ruggles volunteered for service overseas by transferring to the 1st Battalion of the WNSR on 25 June 1942 . Upon that transfer he stated that he had worked as a gardener, houseman, janitor and butler, and that he was the husband of Etta Barbara Robinson Ruggles, of Halifax. In October 1943 Ruggles was transferred to the Royal CanadianArtillery to commence five months of training for mobile artillery. On 25 March 1944 he qualified as driver and mechanic for wheel and track vehicles. The Nova Scotia troopers of the Kangaroo Regiment continued ... T J Morris C G Ringer I W Ruggles
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