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Service No. Rank Service Date of Birth Place of Birth Date of Enlistment Place of Enlistment Date of Death Age Cemetery/Memorial Grave Reference

Weldon Eugene Barkhouse F-800304 Gunner 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery June 12, 1928 Martin's Point, Nova Scotia August 16, 1950 Halifax, Nova Scotia November 21, 1950 22 Willow Bank Cemetery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia Lot 5. No. 2. Section 20 Commemorated on Page 3 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance Gunner Weldon Eugene Barkhouse was the son of Harold Martin Barkhouse (1905-1964) and Elsie Mildred Barkhouse (1909-1975) of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and the brother of Floyd ‘Benny’ Albert Barkhouse (1934- 2016), and Harold Lemuel ‘Junior’ Barkhouse Junior (1942-2015). He served with the 2nd Regiment of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. He was killed in the Canoe River accident. The Canoe River train crash occurred on November 21, 1950, near Valemount in eastern British Columbia, when a westbound troop train and the eastbound Canadian National Railway (CNR) Continental Limited train collided head-on between Cedarside and Canoe River. The soldiers were en route from Camp Shilo, in Manitoba, to Fort Lewis, in Washington. The collision killed 21 people including 17 Canadian soldiers en route to Korea and the two-man locomotive crew of each train. One of the other 17 soldiers was another Nova Scotian Gunner Austin Emery George of White Head, Guysborough Co., NS.

Remembering the Korean War Korean War Casualties with a Nova Scotia Connection

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial