Glen Bower, F5170. Glen was born 20 August 1920 in Baccaro, Shelburne County; wounded and died in Italy as a result of his wounds on 23 January 1944. He was the son of Charles and Lucy Edna (Crowell) Bower. He had three brothers Carlyle, who was also killed in action, Everette, deceased, and LeRoy as well as four sisters, Marion, Ellen, Bessie and Edna. 
Glen was a labourer when he enlisted 6 April 1941in Yarmouth. He went overseas on 19 August 1942 with a tank unit and was in action in the Sicilian campaign before proceeding to mainland Italy. At Riccione, a sea-side resort on the Adriactic Coast, he received mortar shell wounds to his head, arm and chest at 1630 hours and died at 2215 hours. Buried at Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, at Grave 6, Row A, Plot 6, Italy.

Glen Bower killed in Italy

Boggild, Vilhelm 'Bill' Krusse. F66822. Born 6 January 1925 in Haloagaergaard, Denmark; killed in action 25 March 1925 at Bienen, Germany. Son of Hans Christenson and Esther ( Fjerdingstad) Boggild. Bill arrived in Canada when he was four years old and lived in Lockeport, Shelburne County.
Bill was working as a camp clerk in Caledonia, Queens County for the Mersey Paper Company, when he enlisted 3 April 1943 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He entered the No.2 Canadian Army University Course at Acadia University in August of 1943 and graduated in May of 1944. Following advanced infantry training he went overseas in October 1944. Bill was with the North Nova Scotia Highlanders in the successful Battle for the Scheldt and was killed after the crossing of the Rhine. At the time of his death his brother Captain Kai was in the RCNVR on the HMS Dryade; his brother F/L Carl, a member of the RCAF, was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III, Germany and his brother Paul was living at home in Lockeport.
Buried at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Grave 4, Row A, Plot 19, Gelderland, Netherlands.

Bill Krusse killed in action in Germany

Can-UC with PIATbattery-1944.
Improvised by the Canadians in 1944, this consisted of 14 PIAT projectors mounted on a frame at the rear of the carrier in two series of seven. Each row could be fired simultaneously by means of a mechanical contrivance of steel rods attached to the firing triggers. A few vehicles so fitted were used in Europe in 1944-45.
The PIAT Battary in question was part of 16 Field Park Comapny, Royal Canadian Engineers, in Zutphen, Netherlands, 1944. Yes, they were used in action, to good effect. They were mounted on brackets on the rear of the carriers in two rows of seven, with a crowbar tack welded to the triggers of the PIAT, to provide a uniform firing mechanism.
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