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In memory of:

Private Edward James Power

Military service

Service number: SF14075
Age: 21
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Division: 3rd Battalion
Birth: July 10, 1931 North Sydney, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: January 4, 1951 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death: December 24, 1952 South Korea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 21. 10. 1376
Additional information

Son of Edward and Jean (nee MacDonald) Power of North Sydney, Nova Scotia.

The Monuments to Canadian Fallen that stand in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan and also in Ottawa list Private Power by two names. One is his own. The other is "Joe Dowey" the made-up name that he sometimes used when on weekend passes and on leave.

Pte Power is commemorated on the Nova Scotia Korea War Memorial with his fellow Nova Scotians who lost their lives in the Korean War. The Memorial is located at Pleasant and Parade Streets in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. It was unveiled and dedicated in a ceremony on 16 August 2003.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 60 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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