| Rodney Phillips Hemeon |
| Town
Clerk and Treasurer |
| Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia |
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| Mr. Hemeon comes of forbears
who made history in the days "When Knights Were
Bold." He is proud of the fact that he i s a
descendant of the gallant Clan McAlpine, which fought the
epic battle with another Highland warrior race on an
Easter Sunday, long ago, a battle immortalized in Scott's
"Fair Maid of Perth." |
| But not even the bravest
wearer of the Tartan in these days of romance and bravery
made a prouder record of achievement on the field of
battle than Rodney Phillips Hemeon, once a battling
knight for the cause of freedom and democracy on Flanders
fields. |
| Mr Hemeon was employed with
E.K.Spinney Ltd. and the Eastern Steamship Company, his
first employment after finishing school, when the Great
War broke out. He at once enlisted for service overseas
with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. |
| He went to the front in France
and served from 1916 to 1918-from 1916 to the end of the
war. The record shows he served with honour and was
disabled while in performance of his duty in action. he
fought in "C" Company, 25TH Canadian Infantry,
taking part in the following engagements : |
| Battle of the Somme, Sanctuary Wood,
Lens, St.Eloi, Hill 70, Vimy Ridge, Paschendaile, and the
second Battle of Amiens. |
| After nineteen months service
in the trenches, during which he was twice buried twice
wounded and poisoned by barbed wire, he was invalided
home just thirty days before the signing of the
Armistice. |
| This record of plain facts is
one rarely equalled and hardly ever surpassed in all the
history of heroism in the trenches in that tremendous war
that envolved not alone the exsistance of nations but the
maintenance and salvation of modern civilization. |
His fellow citizens have not
been unmindful of Mr Hemeon's record as a patriot and so
he has been elected Town Clerk of Yarmouth, Town
Treasurer of Yarmouth, Clerk of the Municipal Court,
Clerk of the Board of Health, Clerk of Commissioners of
Poor,Secretary Treasurer School Board. and for four years
has been President of the Yarmouth Kiwanis Club.
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