Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 79 continued ... C J Stevens of Winnipeg, Manitoba. J D Story of Saint Jean, Quebec. F C Thomas of Calgary, Alberta. Norman 'John' Trueman enlisted in 2/Mancs in 1935. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his next of kind as his parents Thomas and Mary Ellen Trueman of Gorton, Manchester, England. He is commemorated on page 571 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance. It is unclear what his Canadian connection is. He served with 1/Mancs in Palestine in January 1938 and was with the same unit in Singapore in February 1942. He died in Singapore on 31 August 1945, at age 30, whilst a Prisoner of war. John is buried in the Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Gerald Edwin Walker was born on 25 March 1914, in Dartmouth to Clarence Edwin and Harriet Olive (McDow) Walker. Gerald grew up in the Port Wallis community and married Corrine Catherine Mills on 1 April 1935 in Halifax. In 1939 he enlisted in the 2/Mancs; however, no other information is currently available about his wartime service. Gerald died on 17 September 1955, in Toronto, at the age of 41. David Drady Watson Jr. was born in Upper Musquodoboit, on 25 April 1916 to David and Catherine Watson. David served in the 2/Mancs during WW II. He died on 28 December 1993 and is buried in the Dean Cemetery, Dean, Halifax County. James White of Halifax, NS. This might be James Wilfred Patrick White who was born in Halifax, 14 July 1911, or it may be Corporal James White of 1/Mancs, the son of John William and Lilly White; husband of Dorothy White, of Whitefield, Lancashire, England. Corporal White was killed in action on 20 May 1940 in France. There is no clear Canadian connection. Corporal White’s service number is 3442325, while men of the Halifax 100, who joined the Manchester Regiment, are found in the 3529000 – 3531000 range of service numbers. William Frederick ‘Bill’ ‘Chalkie’White was born in Hamilton, ON, and raised in Halifax. He enlisted in the 2/Mancs on 20 February 1939. Private White served in France with 'A' Company and was part of the rear-guard action at Dunkirk. He transferred to the RAF in 1941 and qualified as a pilot. By the summer of 1942 he was selected to be a flying instructor and was posted to 2 Flying Instructors School (FIS) located at RAF Church Lawford in Warwickshire. On 3 September 1942, during a training flight in a low cloud area, Bill's plane, Airspeed Oxford Mk I N6438, struck a hill (1,725’) at Meluncart, Glen Dye, Strachan, Aberdeenshire. His co-pilot was killed. Seriously injured and lying in the open for 28 hours, Bill was eventually rescued and spent the next few months in hospital (Kingseat Hospital, Aberdeenshire). He recovered, albeit with a permanent limp and resumed flight operations. Bill transferred from the RAF to RCAF prior to the end of the war. Remaining in the air force after the war, Bill was killed at RCAF Station Claresholm, Alberta, on the morning of 4 January 1956 when the Harvard II aircraft he was piloting crashed shortly after take-off. He was 37 years old. Flying Officer Bill White, the son of Norman Macleod and Catherine Florence (Abbott) White, the husband of Sheila (Percival) and father of Kay, Patrica and Sheila White is buried in the Claresholm Cemetery, AB. continued ...
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