![]() Marshall remained with an anti-aircraft battery. …Marshall spent a year in Goose Bay as a gunner with an anti-aircraft battery….Ītlantic Coast Defences. He had a pleasant, friendly manner, and was soft spoken. It was noted that his spare time was spent studying and he liked to read detective stories. In a Deceminterview his interest in paratrooper training was mentioned, but he was not selected for this specialized training. After leaving school at the age of 16, he’d worked at Fundy Construction Company in Halifax, Nova Scotia for a year, until just before his enlistment date.Īfter basic training, Marshall was sent on an anti-aircraft course and was a gunner on an anti-aircraft crew in various anti-aircraft units. Marshall enlisted with the 1 st Anti-Aircraft Battery in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on Jat the age of 18. His father, who came from Newfoundland, unfortunately died in 1930, leaving Clara to bring up three children – Marshall, his younger brother Ira Vance, and a sister Beverly. ![]() and Clara Frances (nee McGlashing) Carson. We got a photo of Pte Charles ‘Marshall’ Carson, and learned that his brother Vance, who died in 2005, served in the Canadian Infantry Corps during the war, but survived and returned home.īorn in Cape Tormentine on October 29, 1921, Marshall was the son of Charles J. (Photo courtesy of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 81 in Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick) That’s exactly what happened! …The Cape Tormentine Legion had a photo of Charles ‘Marshall’ Carson…Ĭharles ‘Marshall’ Carson. Sonny was unable to be there, but Joe Simpson would let us into the Legion and show us the memorial book. We just happened to be in Nova Scotia and on our way home would be driving right past the exit to Cape Tormentine. Perhaps they had a photo or knew of family members? Sonny McCarron wrote back that there was a photo in a memorial book in the Legion but it would take him a few days to get there and digitize it. Pieter was determined to find a photo and contacted the Cape Tormentine Legion. He soon learned that 39 soldiers from the North Nova Scotia Highlanders Regiment who were killed during the battle are buried in the Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek. “ …He died on my birthday! I was just one year old!…” Pieter exclaimed after reading that Carson died during the Battle of Bienen in Germany on March 25, 1945. Prince Edward Island is across the Strait. Red marker identifies Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick.
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