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

Cecil Robert Ellsworth Fancy F/800498 Private The Royal Canadian Regiment January 16, 1926 Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia November 9, 1944 Halifax, Nova Scotia June 5, 1951 25 United Nations Cemetery (Busan), South Korea Plot 20. Row 2. Grave 1133 Commemorated on Page 23 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance Cecil Robert Ellsworth Fancy was the son of Cecil Clayton Fancy (1900-1943) and Eva Martha (Nauss) Fancy (1906-1991) of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Cecil had two sisters, Bertha Evelyn Lucille (Fancy) Horne (1927-2018) and Doris Joan (Fancy) Seaboyer (1930-2017). Cecil’s father, Private Cecil Clayton Fancy (Service Number F/39598) served with the West Nova Scotia Regiment WNSR) during the Second World War and was killed December 16, 1943. He is interred at the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery in Ortona, Provincia di Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy. Cecil R. E. Fancy enlisted during the Second World War on November 9, 1944, in Halifax, NS, and served in Canada. During the Korean War, Private Fancy was posted to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment (2RCR) and assigned to the mortar platoon. In late 1950, he travelled to Washington state in the US as part of the Canadian Army Special Force that were assembled there for service in Korea. 2RCR arrived in Korea on May 5, 1951, and entered into their first action against enemy forces on May 30th. They were tasked with taking a strategically located hill and the nearby village of Chail-li (Hills 162 and 269 and the larger Hill 467). The operation began early in the morning of May 30th in a driving rainstorm. It was a hard fight against a well dug in enemy. The RCR acquitted themselves well in their first major engagement in Korea. Although they capture the village, the Canadians were forced to withdraw after fresh enemy troops infiltrated their positions. There were 6 fatal casualties and over 25 wounded. Six days later, an American regimental combat team occupies Chail-li as the Chinese continue their withdrawal into North Korea. The six RCR casualties of May 30th, 1951, were: Corporal Ronald Allan Edmonds of Toronto, ON (Service No. B801318) Private William Raymond Howarth of Verdun, QC (Service No. D801316) Private John Franklin Kemp of Caledonia, New York (Service No. B800561) Private Patrick William O'Connor of Sarnia, Ontario (Service No. A800440) Private Louis Charles Roberts of Winnipeg, Manitoba (Service No. SB153871) Private William Leslie Strachan of Virden, Manitoba (Service No. K800311) Private Fancy was among the wounded, in his case, severely. Six days after the battle on June 5, 1951, he died of his wounds at the 121st Evacuation Hospital in Seoul/Yongdungp'o.

Source: Veterans Affairs Canada The Mahone Bay Legion Branch 49