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Date of Birth: June 3, 1890
Place of Birth: Salem, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Place of Enlistment: Medicine Hat, Alberta
Date of Enlistment: March 6, 1916
Age at enlistment:26
Height:5 Feet 6 Inches
Chest:35 Inches
Religion: Baptist
Address at Enlistment: 731 Seventh Street, Medicine Hat Alberta
Trade: Merchant
Marital Status: Single
Regiment: Canadian Engineers
Battalion: 4th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
Company Coy D
Regimental Number: 696478
Died: December 12, 1917(reported missing November 30, 1917; admitted to hospital December 2, 1917"died of wounds" (Gun shot wounds in chest and left arm) at No.55 Casualty Clearing Station.
Age at Death: 27
Cemetery: Tincourt New British Cemetery, France
Grave Reference:IV. B. 31.
Commemorated on Page 254 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Canadian Great War Project
Private Rodney Phillips Hemeon
Regimental Number: 734264
Force: Army
Regiment: Canadian Infantry
Battalion: 112th Battalion
Enlisted or Conscripted: Enlisted
Prior Military Experience: Yes
Enlistment Date: March 15, 1916
Age at Enlistment: 22
Enlisted at: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Address at Enlistment: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Civilian Occupation: Accountant
Saw Service in: Europe
Date of Birth: April 18, 1893
Next of Kin: Wentworth Hemeon (Father), Salem, Yarmouth Nova Scotia
Place of Birth: Salem, Yarmouth Nova Scotia
Country of Birth: Canada
Married: Single
Religion: Baptist
Height: 5 Feet 8 Inches
Chest: 36 Inches
Expansion: 4 Inches
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File
Name: Harry Hemeon
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 12 Sep 1911
Death Date: 2 Jan 1989
Cause of Death:Natural
SSN: 015096707
Branch 1: NAVY
Enlistment Date 1:10 May 1944
Release Date 1: 18 Jan 1946
Portland Press Herald (ME)
January 9, 1998Barbara J. Hemeon, 89, died Thursday morning at Bridgton Health Care Center after a long illness. She was born in Gorham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Beman, attended Portland schools and graduated from Deering High School.
She married Harry R. Hemeon in 1953. He died in 1989.
Mrs. Hemeon was a certified public accountant and had worked for Central Maine Power Co. in Bridgton and the Eastern Slope Inn in North Conway, N.H. She was a member of the Bridgton Professional Women, the Bridgton Literary Club, the Friendship Class and the First Congregational Church, where she was active in the Ladies' Guild. She was a Girl Scout leader and had volunteered for the American Red Cross during World War II.
Surviving are a daughter, Joan B. Swasey of Dorchester in Boston; two granddaughters, Sallyanne Smith of Windham and Kathleen Swasey of Portland; three great-grandchildren, Jamie Smith of Windham, Judson Smith of Standish and Sandy Scally of Tewksbury, Mass.