Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 37 continued ... The Berwick Register of 25 July 1916 published the following: “Kings County Officer Killed in Action - Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Pineo, of Waterville, received a telegram from Ottawa this (Tuesday) morning, announcing the sad news that their son Henry had been killed in action on July 21st. He was the only son and 25 years of age, and a young man of great promise, being a member of Mr. Ralston's law firm in Amherst. He enlisted as Lieut. in the 6th Mounted and had a rapid advancement which he well earned.” Captain Henry Hoyt Pineo is buried in the Poperinge New Military Cemetery, in Poperinge, Belgium. He is commemorated in the Berwick Cemetery, the Kentville Legion War Memorial and on the Acadia University cenotaph. The Poperinge New Military Cemetery contains the remains of 681 war dead from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, New Zealand and the UK. Fifteen of the war dead buried there were executed in 1916 and 1917 – three of the 15 are Canadians. Kentville Legion War Memorial
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