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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

Austin Emery George B-800443 Gunner 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery December 4, 1920 White Head, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia July 5, 1940 Dartmouth, NS November 21, 1950 29 Fourth Hill Cemetery, Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada Plot A. Row 2. Grave 45 Commemorated on Page 26 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance Austin Emery George was the son of Levi Matthew George (1882-1964) and Jeanette ‘Nettie’ Belle (Munro) George (1891-1980) of Canso, Nova Scotia, and the brother of Winnifred Annabel George (b. 1912), Clarence Munro George (1913-2007), Robert George (b. 1916), Muriel Louise George (1917- 2011), and Don George. Gunner George served during WWII and was discharged upon demobilization on October 20, 1945. In 1949, he returned to Toronto where he lived until his re-enlistment for service in Korea. 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 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 Weldon Eugene Barkhouse of Martin’s River, Lunenburg Co., NS.

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

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave