Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 59 continued ... J H Harrison of Halifax. He may have been James Hiram Harrison who was born in Joggins, Cumberland County on 20 June 1921. F Hayden (Haydon) of Halifax enlisted in the 2/Mancs 1939. He may have been Francis Stephen Hayden who was born in Halifax on 24 September 1915. Clarence ‘Clary’ Arthur Hook was born in Dartmouth on 6 August 1915 to Albert and Maggie Hook. He enlisted in the 2/Mancs on 28 March 1939 and stayed with the regiment after it was evacuated from Dunkirk in June 1940. Clary arrived in India in June 1942 and served in ‘D’ Company. He fought in the Battle of Imphal-Kohima to repel the Japanese invasion of India during the period of March-June 1944. Clary would also fight in Burma as the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army conducted a fighting withdrawal into Southeast Asia. Clarence died in 2003, at the age of 88, and is buried in Dartmouth Memorial Gardens. A Ing of Halifax enlisted in 2 Mancs in 1939 and served in 5 Platoon of B Company. Information on his service is sparse and he may have been from Cape Breton. William 'Bill' Edward Lambert was born in Halifax on 23 March 1919 to Louis and Caroline Lambert. Bill was taken prisoner in France during the rear-guard action of 2/Mancs. He was held prisoner in Stalag 20B Marienburg, Poland, for the duration of the war. After the war he settled in England, married, and raised a family. Bill died in May 1982. George Ernest Lampier was born in Halifax on 15 November 1915 to George and Charlotte Lampier. He enlisted in the 2/Mancs on 21 September 1938. George was wounded near the Albert Canal, in France, in late May 1940 and was evacuated from Dunkirk a few days later. He would later relate that all he remembered was hearing a loud bang and then lying on his back swallowing/spitting out most of his teeth. George remembered that Mel Coppell carried him out of harm’s way. After recuperating from his wounds, he was posted to the 5th Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. In 1941 he was transferred to the Royal Artillery and served in the 76th Anti-Tank Regiment and 86th Anti-Tank Regiment. He transferred to the Canadian Army in 1942 and served the remainder of the war with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, RCA. George remained in the army after the war and served in the RCHA until 1965. He earned his jump wings prior to his retirement. George died, at age 88, on 22 January 2009 and is buried in the Gates of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville. Robie Sproule Lewis of Halifax enlisted in the 2/Mancs on 13 March 1939. He was born in Halifax on 23 February 1917 to Albert and Lottie Lewis of 100 Quinpool Road. He transferred to the Canadian Army in 1941 and served with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada in Italy and Northwest Europe. Robie joined the Halifax Fire Department after the war. He died on 6 April 2002 in Halifax at age 85. Francis William 'Skip' McCarthy was born in Moncton, NB, in 1909 and grew up in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. In the late 1920s Skip enlisted in the 75th Lunenburg Regiment as a reserve infantryman. He studied art in New York and was later employed as a bank teller in Bridgewater, NS. Skip travelled to England in late March 1939 and enlisted in the 2/Mancs on 4 April. When war was declared, the 2/Mancs left England reaching Cherbourg, France, on 23 September 1939. Stationed on the Maginot Line near the Belgium border they waited in the trenches they had dug for the inevitable German attack which finally commenced May 10, 1940. Attached to continued ...
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