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Our Veterans
from His Grace Magazine
by His Grace
World War II & Korea
Robert Allan Wood joined the North Regiment, Pictou Highlanders on January 1942 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He served in Bermuda and Europe as his unit pushed into Cannes, France in 1944. He was wounded when he was hit in the leg with shrapnel.
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Albert Scagnetti joined the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry where he fought in Korea for two years.
Walter Walls joined in 1939 with the 48th Highlanders from Toronto. They landed in Britain on New Year's Day in 1940, spending a couple of years there before going to North Africa to fight in the desert against the German Africa core. After that, they went to Sicily in Italy before going into southern France in 1944 and ending up in Holland at the end of the War.