Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 127 Lewis Nelson Morrison enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps on 3 November 1915 and was assigned to No 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital. At the time of his enlistment, he was a medical student in Halifax and declared that his mother, Mrs. B.C. Morrison of Halifax, was his next of kin. He was born in Oxford, NS, on 11 February 1894. Private Lewis arrived in England on 10 January 1916 and was posted to the Walmer Hospital at St Margaret's at Cliffe. He arrived in France on 18 June. In April 1918 he was returned to England for service with the newly formed Royal Air Force. On 18 September he was posted to the British hospital ship HMAT Neuralia and on 4 December he was posted to HMAT Essequibo, a hospital ship which was employed to bring Canadian wounded home. Lewis stayed with the Essequibo until July 1919. He was discharged from the CEF a month later. Lewis became a doctor after the war and moved to Mahone Bay. He was the ship's surgeon aboard SS Lady Hawkins when WW II started. His ship was off the coast of North Carolina, USA, when it was sunk by a torpedo fired from U-66, in January 1942. Doctor Lewis Nelson Morrison became the first man from Mahone Bay to die due to enemy action during WW II. Robert Archibald Patterson was born in Kouchibouguac, NB, on 27 May 1890. He was a student Dalhousie University when enlisted in the Canadian Army Service Corps on 4 April 1915 in Halifax. Robert arrived in France on 24 February 1916 assigned to 1st General Hospital. Lance-Corporal Patterson was hospitalized in Etaples, France, due to nephritis and influenza on 7 December 1917 and evacuated to England a month later. He was medically evacuated to Canada in June. He was discharged, in Fredericton, on 31 January 1919 as medically unfit for service. Robert became a clergyman after graduating from Dalhousie. Reverend Robert Archibald Patterson died in the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax of septicemia and leukemia in 1964. He is buried in Stewiacke. Bernard Woodworth Skinner was a medical student at McGill University when he enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps in Montreal on 8 March 1915. He had completed his medical degree prior to enlisting and was posted to No.2 General Hospital (McGill). Upon enlisting he declared that he had been born in Weston, Kings County, NS, on 26 May 1889, and that his next of kin was his father John W Skinner of Weston. He completed his medical internship while in the CAMC and became a doctor in 1917, at which time he was re-enlisted as an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 25 October 1917. He served in the Mesopotamian campaign (Iraq and Palestine) as a captain with the RAMC. After the war Dr Skinner settled in Mahone Bay providing medical care to that community for 40 years. He was the first president of Branch 49 Mahone Bay; serving in that position for 13 years. He died in 1958 of a heart attack. Layton ‘Edward’ Tuck was born in Cranwick, England, on 16 April 1890. He was working as a chauffeur/motor mechanic in Montreal when he enlisted in the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (5CMR) on 15 February 1915. On 25 August, Edward “missed” the ship that was taking 5CMR overseas and he was discharged from the CEF. He was re-enrolled as a driver in the 35th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery on 2 September. Driver Tuck arrived in England on 12 March 1916 and was in France four months later. In May 1918 it was noted that Driver Tuck was showing signs of ‘shell shock’ and he was evacuated to the 1st Southern General Hospital, Birmingham, England. He was discharged as medically unfit (myalgia and rheumatism) inApril 1919. After the war Edward became an Anglican priest and, in 1926, married Ruth Marjorie Louisa Harris of Mahone Bay. He and Ruth had four children. Edward had been traumatized by his experiences during the Great War and he was frequently hospitalized and absent from home. Reverend Tuck died on 7 October 1976 and is buried in the Saint Peter Anglican Cemetery, Charlottetown, PEI. continued ...
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