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In memory of those who have Crossed the Bar
POWELL, Joseph Henry - 54, of Mahone Bay, N.S., died March 17 in Camp Hill Hospital. Funeral services were held March 21 in Halifax. Burial took place in Fort Massey cemetery. A veteran of 25 years' service with the Royal Canadian Navy and three years with the Royal marines, Lieut. Powell retired in 1945 and since that time had lived in Mahone Bay. Born in Yorkshire, Lieut. Powell served in the Royal marines in HMS "Warspite" during the First World War. He came to Canada in 1920 and joined the RCN as a stoker, serving in the cruiser "Aurora" and the destroyers "Patriot," "Patrician," "Vancouver," Champlain," "Skeena" and "Saguenay." He was promoted to the rank of Warrant Engineer in 1940. (CROWSNEST Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 7, May, 1950)
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