Below is the ship's manifest from the S.S. Duchess of York, which departed from Halifax on 17 July 1940 with 227 West NS Regt soldiers on board.
WEST NOVA SCOTIA REGIMENT
S.L's, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241 Reinforcements Ser. No. 42
Embarked at Halifax Date 15/7/40 S.S. "Duchess of York"
NUMBER RANK NAME
Lieut. Deveber, William Hubbard
Lieut. Fortune, Edgar Leonard
Lieut. Higgins, Clarence B. ,
Lieut. McCarthy, Raymond Wm.
Lieut. MacIntosh, Ian Harris
Lieut. Neish, David Robert M.
Lieut. Smith, Sydney MacLachlan
Lieut. Theakston, George W.
F 40713 Pte. Baltzer, Allison
F 40714 Pte. Baltzer, Roy C.
F 40724 Pte. Baltzer, Wm. Fenwick
F 40338 Pte. Basque, William
F 40464 Pte. Bayers, Geo. Jas.
F 40522 Pte. Bennett, Manley Rufus
F 60076 Pte. Bernard, Alfred Jos.
F 40517 Pte. Bishop, Harvey Wm.
F 40731 Pte. Bourque, John Peter
F 40725 Pte. Brown, Emerson E.
F 40467 Pte. Brownell, Edison H.
F 49967 Pte. Bryan, Roderick
F 40709 Pte. Burgess, Alfred P.
F 40721 Pte. Butler, Harry Wm.
F 40343 Pte. Campbell, Donald
F 40311 Pte. Campbell, Geo. Anthony
F 59828 Pte. Campbell, Lester Louis
F 59855 Pte. Cheverie, Everett Angus
F 40228 Pte. Christie, Ralph G.
F 60049 Pte. Clarkin, John F.
F 59742 Pte. Clow, Allan Louis
F 40415 Pte. Cochrane, Carl J.
F 40441 Pte. Colbert, Leonard
F 40182 Pte. Cole, Oscar
F 40468 Pte. Comeau, Alphonse Louis
F 40728 Pte. Conrad, Frank B.
F 40076 Pte. Cooke, Gerald B.
F 59762 Pte. Cormier, Edward
F 40469 Pte. Cormier, Jos. Ernest
F 40373 Pte. Cottreau, Norman E.
F 7116 Pte. Couture, Romeo Chas.
F 40009 Pte. Cox, Donald W.
F 40470 Pte. Cromwell, Keith L.
F 40440 Pte. Crouse, Carl
F 40544 Pte. Currie, James A.
F 40543 Pte. Dando, Clifford Geo.
F 40202 Pte. Davis, John Raymond
F 40313 Pte. Davis, Wilfred M.
F 60026 Pte. Dawson, Thomas O.
F 59627 Pte. Dennis, Percy E.
F 40319 Pte. Derasp, William
F 40474 Pte. Deveau, Elzie
F 59667 Pte. Doiron, Lawrence Geo.
F 39589 Pte. Dolliver, Arthur G. D.
F 39823 Pte. Doucette, James Wallace
F 40708 Pte. Drew, Ford Reginald
F 40529 Pte. Dykens, Thomas
F 30025 Pte. Ettinger, Lawrence M.
F 40159 Pte. Everitt, David L. L.
F 40395 Pte. Ferguson, Earle Douglas
F 40442 Pte. Fielding, Reginald E.
F 41682 Pte. Fitzgerald, Geo. A.
F 40407 Pte. Fraser, Clyde Manard
F 40521 Pte. Fraser, John Blake
F 59766 Pte. Gallant, Franklyn John
F 59746 Pte. Gallant, Octave Joseph
F 40215 Pte. Garland, Frank C.
F 60014 Pte. Gaudet, Harold Joseph
F 60043 Pte. Gaudet, John Ira
F 40546 Pte. Glennie, Thomas M.
F 39855 Pte. Golar, Perley Roy L.
F 40615 Pte. Goreham, Rodney Shand
F 40537 Pte. Gould, Wilfred Arthur
F 40479 Pte. Grant, William
F 40478 Pte. Gray, John Stanley
F 40200 Pte. Guadet, John Joseph A.
F 59808 Pte. Hammond, Richard Henry
F 40298 Pte. Handspiker, Osborne E.
F 40238 Pte. Harris, John Lewis
F 29875 Pte. Hartlen, Ralph G. Hartling,
F 44641 Pte. Joseph Edmund
F 40041 Pte. Hatfield, Donald Roy
F 40071 Pte. Hatfield, Ernest A.
F 40547 Pte. Hayden, Morland Eugene
F 59977 Pte. Heckbert, Earl Allan
F 40484 Pte. Holland, Geo. Hector
F 40485 Pte. Holloway, Walter Jas.
F 40328 Pte. Hoskins, Nelson Stratton
F 40706 Pte. Hudson, Alden Vernon
F 44884 Pte. Hughes, John Brenton
F 40483 Pte. Hurshman, Geo. Walter
F 40519 Pte. Inglis, Frank A.
F 40700 Pte. Isenor, Lloyd Wm.
F 4o486 Pte. Isnor, George Maynard
F 40487 Pte. Jackson, Eustace N.
F 40536 Pte. Jackson, Reginald
F 40533 Pte. Johnson, Arthur M.
F 76939 Pte. Kellam, Douglas F.
F 60054 Pte. Kelly, Borden Francis
F 40489 Pte. Kelly, Wilbert John
F 40346 Pte. Kennedy, John Angus
F 60055 Pte. Kenslow, James Patrick
F 40242 Pte. King, Ralph Edward
F 40540 Pte. Landry, John Baptist
F 76984 Pte. Langford, Alphonse H.
F 29783 Pte. Le Rue, Joseph Henry C.
F 40273 Pte. Lever, Philip Joseph
F 40445 Pte. Lindsay, Murray Edward
F 40207 Pte. Lockhart, Donald S.
F 40422 Pte. Logan, Robert William
F 40524 Pte. Lowe, Robert
F 40491 Pte. Lucas, Ervin A.
F 29913 Pte. Lynch, Leo Charles
F 40386 Pte. Margeson, Garnett D.
F 40210 Pte. Margeson, Roy Willis
F 40387 Pte. Margeson, Walter St.C.
F 50000 Pte. Martin, Geo. William
F 60057 Pte. Martin, John
F 40388 Pte. Martin, Lloyd Wilfred
F 59751 Pte. Merrill, James E.
F 40398 Pte. Mickeals, Virgil G.
F 34953 Pte. Middleton, Percy T.
F 40416 Pte. Miller, Dewey Elmer
F 40410 Pte. Miller, John Jos.
F 40248 Pte. Morash, Earle V.
F 40354 Pte. Morris, Ellis
F 40716 Pte. Morse, Harold B.
F 59898 Pte. Mosher, Howard W.
F 40307 Pte. Munro, William Ross
F 40274 Pte. MacBurnie, Russell O.
F 40020 Pte. McCallum, Agassiz Munroe
F 40327 Pte. McCarthy, Clyde William
F 40347 Pte. MacDonald, Donald
F 40326 Pte. McDonnell, Daniel Philip
F 40348 Pte. McDonnell, Joseph John
F 40349 Pte. McDougall, Hugh
F 59874 Pte. MacEachern, Francis A.
F 60064 Pte. McGee, William Ernest
F 59754 Pte. McInnis, Joseph James
F 59900 Pte. MacIntyre, Herbert F.
F 40350 Pte. MacIsaac, Michael G.
F 54651 Pte. McKay, Howard F.
F 40247 Pte. MacKenzie, Geo. Harold
F 40246 Pte. MacKenzie, Loring M.
F 60059 Pte. MacKinnon, Dereck D.
F 29835 Pte. McLeod, Donald Jas.
F 40351 Pte. MacLeod, John William
F 40353 Pte. MacNeil, Charles Angus
F 59646 Pte. McNeill, Neil Charles
F 54799 Pte. McPherson, AlexandarD.
F 40447 Pte. MacRae, Alan Wesley
F 29922 Pte. McRoberts, Chas. Wm.
F 49920 Pte. Nelson, Burtus A.
F 40249 Pte. Nickerson, Bradford E.
F 43683 Pte. Nixon, Edward S.
F 40377 Pte. Noilez, Richard W.
F 40325 Pte. O'Brian, Ivan Arthur
F 39799 Pte. O'Connell, Earl
F 40253 Pte. O'Connell, Geo. Bernard
F 49922 Pte. Ogden, Max Amos
F 60032 Pte. O'Meara, Stephen Gerald
F 50016 Pte. O'Rourke, Wm. Warren
F 40356 Pte. Orrell, John
F 40357 Pte. Osborne, Albert D.
F 40324 Pte. Pace, William K.
F 42627 Pte. Parker, Chas. Burton
F 40379 Pte. Parsons, Laurence Wm.
F 40402 Pte. Pearl, Garnet L.
F 40316 Pte. Pelrine, John Jeffery
F 60007 Pte. Perry, Norman Arthur
F 60066 Pte. Peters, Vernon Thos.
F 42675 Pte. Pothier, Carrol V.
F 40358 Pte. Pyke, Rubin
F 59710 Pte. Razavet, Ralph Joe.
F 42633 Pte. Reay, William A.
F 34748 Pte. Rees, Vernon A.
F 59978 Pte. Reynolds, Freeman E.
F 29898 Pte. Rhyno1Aubrey J. 0
F 54627 Pte. Ritchie, James
F 40297 Pte. Robinson, Jas. Albert
F 60002 Pte. Rogerson, Gordon Jas.
F 40628 Pte. Ross, McPherson E.
F 40088 Pte. Ross, Victor A.
F 40403 Pte. Schofield, Harold H.
F 30024 Pte. Schofield, Jas. Henry
F 40322 Pte. Scott, Victor E.
F 40334 Pte. Scoville, Jas, Harvey
F 40090 Pte. Sisco, Loveitt R,
F 40256 Pte. Skinner, Ray Ralph
F 39759 Pte. Smith, Dana Munroe
F 40364 Pte. Smith, Donald A.
F 40219 Pte. Smith, Godfrey Roy
F 40220 Pte. Smith, John Nathan
F 40368 Pte. Smith, Lawrence
F 40183 Pte. Smith, Philip G.
F 40221 Pte. Smith, Re4mond A.
F 40448 Pte. Stailing, William Lewis
F 40392 Pte. Stanley, Lorne M.
F 40288 Pte. Stark, Chester W.
F 59694 Pte. Stewart, Herbert Ray
F 40643 Pte. Stoddard, Alpheus Jas.
F 40254 Pte. Stoddard, Murray R.
F 40285 Pte. Sulis, Albert Wm.
F 25351 Pte. Swan, Charles Ellery
F 40332 Pte. Tanner, Edward
F 40385 Pte. Thomas, Fenton H.
F 59793 Pte. Thompson Clarence Wm.
F 40257 Pte. Thompson, Warren D.
F 40281 Pte. Tooke, Arthur Maurice
F 10070 Pte. Toomey, John Thos.
F 40381 Pte. Warren, John Hugh
F 40404 Pte. Wasson, Earl F.
F 40366 Pte. Watson, Alexander
F 40217 Pte. Weatherbed, Harold Chas.
F 40216 Pte. Weatherbed,.Horace
F 29754 Pte. Webber, Beauford A.
F 40091 Pte. Wesley, Robert Jas.
F 40284 Pte. Westhaver, Roy Clifton
F 40711 Pte. Whitman, Grover H.
F 40710 Pte. Whitman, Thos. Victor
F 40380 Pte. Williams, Leon W.
F 40259 Pte. Williams, Robert M.
F 40421 Pte. Winters, Percy E.
F 49841 Pte. Wolfe, Chas. Malcolm
F 60071 Pte. Worth, Athol Herbert
F 40382 Pte. Yorke, Laurie Conrad
F 40367 Pte. Young, Valentine
F 40383 Pte. Zinck, Allen. Murray
F 40369 Pte. Akroyd, Wm. Hinsy (handwritten at bottom)
Off. 8
0.R. 219
Total 227
Thanks to Darren Crossman for providing scans of the manifest list.
