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Son of Nelson Wilfred Kain and Jane (aka Jean) McMillan Don, from Scotland. His mother remarried Robert Y. Young on October 24, 1945, in Vancouver. Lieutenant Kain had a younger brother.
In 1947, he joined the Seaforth Highlanders Regiment, where he served until 1950, when he was promoted to lieutenant. He enlisted on August 1, 1951, in the Canadian Army Special Force in Vancouver, British Columbia. Transferred to the 3rd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment on August 19, 1951, he departed for Japan on March 26, 1953, and landed in Pusan, South Korea, on April 16 of that year. He fell ill on August 25 and was repatriated in April 1954 with his battalion. He died on January 20, 1955, at Shaughnessy Military Hospital in Vancouver.
His name was inscribed on the cenotaph of the Korean War Memorial in Meadowvale Cemetery, Brampton, Peel, Ontario, erected in 1997 to commemorate the 516 Canadians killed in action between 25 June 1950 and 27 July 1953, as well as on the Korean War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. An identical monument can be found at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Pusan (South Korea).
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Lieutenant Edward Gordon Kain
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Lieutenant Edward Gordon Kain
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edward Gordon Kain
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edward Gordon Kain
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edward Gordon Kain
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edward Gordon Kain
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Edward Gordon Kain
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Lieutenant Edward Gordon Kain
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 35 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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