www.ns.legion.ca 135 continued ... at least three French Navy destroyers, and a variety of civilian merchant ships. Others had to wade out from the beaches, waiting for hours in shoulder-deep water. Some were ferried to the larger ships by what became known as the Little Ships of Dunkirk, a flotilla of hundreds of merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft, yachts, and lifeboats called into service from Britain. While there were no Canadian Army or Royal Canadian Air Force units directly involved during the Battle of Dunkirk (26 May to 4 June 1940); however, there were a number of Canadians serving in British units during the fight. Here are some of the Nova Scotians who took part in that fight. ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY Halifax: Desmond William Piers (HMCS Restigouche) ROYALARTILLERY Halifax: Peter Innes Lowe (Killed in action in Burma in 1944) NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT Carl Robert Coulstring of Halifax (Killed in England during an air raid on 12 March 1941) MANCHESTER REGIMENT/2nd Battalion Armdale: Harold Morris (transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps before going to France. Died whilst a Prisoner of War) and Donald How Morrison Barrachois: George Roderick O'Handley Canso: James 'Ross' Rutherford (Killed in a motorcycle accident, In England, on 18 March 1942) Chester: Richard Osbourne Frail Dartmouth: Leonard Charles Andrews; Clarence Arthur Hook; Thomas McCarthy (Killed in action 1321 May 1940); Thomas Hubert Nolan; Arthur John Caleb Smale and Gerald Edwin Walker Ferguson's Cove: Sydney Goodman Halifax: William Douglas Adams (Killed in action10-19 May 1940); William Colbourne; Clyde Reginald Cruickshanks (prisoner of war); Everett Gerald Curran; William Patrick Delaney; Earl Wilfred Falkenham; Thomas Raymond Goodhew; Gordon Grant; J H Harrison; F Hayden(Haydon); A Ing; William Edward Lambert (prisoner of war); George Ernest Lampier (wounded); Robie Sproule Lewis; Kenneth Clifford McKenzie; Ronald Arutur McKeown; Clarence McKeown; Winston Charles Henrick Ploeg; Ernest Frederick Rampton; Arthur Vincent Rodgers; Richard Charles Serrick; G Neville; Daniel Serrick (killed in action on 23 May 1944 in Italy); H D Smith; Rex Charles Smith; J Smith; Noble Goulding Sproule; James White (killed in action); William Frederick White; and Edward John Vere-Holloway; and Gerald Robert Zinck. 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Dunkirk continued ... Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion
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