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Submitted by Lou Daley - ledaley@pei.eastlink.ca
Some Islanders who served with the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment 1939 - 1945
Pte Adrien Arsenault: son of Telesphore Arsenault and Alice Gaudet. Enlisted in the PEI Highlanders in 1940. Served in the North Shore Regiment. Discharged in 1945.(Wellington Legion War Veteran’s Club)
Pte Henri Benoit Arsenault: son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Arsenault joined May 15, 1940 served with the North Shore Regiment Discharged 1945.(Wellington Legion War Veteran’s Club)
Pte Vernon Francis Campbell: Age 20 Vernon Francis Campbell was the fourth child of Mary Ellen Campbell (née Murphy) and Duncan Farquhar Campbell of Newport, Prince Edward Island. Vernon's brother, Joseph William, is also commemorated in the Canadian Virtual War Memorial. (BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France)
Pte. Gregory Donahue: Roseville, Prince County PEI Wounded 17 Sept 1944. Served in B Company NSR as a Bren gunner. Wounded 17 Sept 1944
Pte John Irving Evans: Age 20, Son of John Thomas Evans and of Agatha Evans (nee Bulger), of Peake Station, Prince Edward Island. (BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France) KIA 11 Aug 1944
Robert G Kinch: Age 23, Son of Claude A. and Anne Kinch, of Tignish, Prince Edward Island, Canada. (BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France ) KIA 11 Aug 1944
Pte Cecil Aneas MacDonald: Age 22, Son of Benjamin and Mary MacDonald of Vernon River Prine Edward Island, Canada ADEGEM CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Belgium KIA 15 Sept 1944
Cpl John Joseph MacNeil : wounded in France Holland or Germany discharged 1946 .(Wellington Legion War Veteran’s Club) Wounded April 7, 1944
Pte Barney Rubin McGuigan: Age 17, Son of Tom Maguigan and Mrs. Sadie McGuigan of St. Mary’s Road (GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Netherlands) KIA 26 Feb 1945
Pte William Daley Murphy: Age 27, Son of James and Elizabeth Murphy. Nephew of Mary Power, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. (BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France) KIA 4 July 1944
Cpl Adrien Pineau: of Rustico wounded on D Day 6 June 1944
Pte Joseph Adrien Pineau: of Duvar, Prince County wounded 8 Oct 1944 received bad wound to the top of one shoulder by shrapnel. Son of Frank and Melina Pineau and husband of Josephine Mary (nee Richard). Died June 6th 2006 the anniversary of D Day, age 83.
Sgt. Howard Rafuse MM: of Georgetown son of Victor and Ella Rafuse buried Murray River, Prince Edward Island.
Pte George Preston Smith: Age 21, Son of William W. and Mary Mabel Smith, of Kinkora, Prince Edward Island. (GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Netherlands) KIA 12 Nov 1944
Everett Lloyd Thomas: Age 20, Son of Frederick Elwood Thomas and Annie Elizabeth Thomas, of Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island (BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France) KIA 4 July 1944
A/L/Cpl John Henry (Jack) Wall who was in C Company of the North Shore Regiment Date of Birth: December 27, 1924 Baltic, Prince Edward Island, Canada Son of Arthur and Mary Rebecca (Bridges) Wall, of Darnley, Prince Edward Island. Brother of Trooper George Arthur Wall and Margaret Jean Wall. KIA 10 Aug 1944 (BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France)
Sgt James A. "Jim" WINN: Served with the North Shore Regiment Pioneer Platoon, C Company on sniper and heavy mortar duty. On June 3, 1944, he embarked on the D-Day offensive from England, going ashore on Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944. On July 4, 1944, he was wounded by artillery fire at Capriquet Airport, near Caen, France. Late in 1944, he went back into the line at Falaise Gap. He was discharged on October 18, 1945, and returned to Conway to live. He presently resides at Tyne Valley, PEI.
If anyone knows of any other PEI soldiers, living or dead, who served with the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment during World War II. I would be very interested in hearing from you.