www.ns.legion.ca 125 Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion The Nova Scotia troopers of the Kangaroo Regiment continued ... Trooper O J Westaway. “Joseph Orin” Westaway was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA on 15 November 1920. In 1924 his family moved to Prince Edward Island. He travelled to Nova Scotia to enlist in the army. After the war he married Margaret Helena Huait. Joe died on 28 June 1991 and is buried in the Angus Union Cemetery, Angus, Simcoe County, Ontario. Lance Sergeant Francis Nelson Whynot was born in Mahone Bay in 1916. He joined Kangaroos in November 1944. During Operation BLACKCOCK the 2nd BritishArmy was tasked with clearing the enemy out of the Roer Triangle formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard, in the Netherlands, and Heinsberg in Germany. The fight for the triangle started on 13 January 1945 and ended on 27 January. 1CACR was part of Task BEAR and responsible for carrying the highlanders of the Royal Scots into battle and getting them as close as possible to the enemy strong points. During the battle Lance-Sergeant Whynot was in command of 3 RAM Kangaroos and tasked with the delivery of vital supplies (water, ammunition, food, etc) to the forward elements of the Royal Scots. He was awarded the Military Medal for his actions. Francis returned home to Mahone Bay and became the town’s postmaster in 1946. He married Doris Sylvia Gamble in 1947. The former lance-sergeant of the ‘Kangaroos’ joined Passchendaele Branch 49, RCL, Mahone Bay, and served as the branch president for the period of 1950-53. Francis Nelson Whynot, MM, was 70 years old when he died in 1986. Trooper John William Wright was born in Halifax on 11 January 1922. He was raised in West St. Andrews, Colchester County, NS. Trooper Wright enlisted in the Halifax Rifles in 1940 and finished the war with the Kangaroos. John died in February 2004 in Moncton and is buried in the Fairhaven Memorial Gardens. Passchendaele Branch 49, Mahone Bay, as part of their 90th Anniversary events, has paid tribute to the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment by designating the branch’s lower lounge as the “KANGAROO LOUNGE.” F N Whynot Kangaroo Memorial, Mill, Netherlands
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