Article content Pte. Elwin Herman Goodwin left Nova Scotia as a kid and never returned to the province he loved. But, as they say, you can take the kid out of Nova Scotia, but you can’t take Nova Scotia out of the kid.
He might have been thousands of miles away but never really left the place. For almost three quarters of a century, the remains of this killed-in-action Canadian war hero have been buried in Korea, thousands of miles away from family and his beloved maritime paradise. That will change this Remembrance Day.
His sister is coming to him for the first time, and she’s bringing the best of Nova Scotia with her. “I have always wanted to visit his grave,” 80-year-old Sharon Dulong of Belleville, N.S.
, told The Toronto Sun. “It’s finally going to happen.” She and her niece, Rhonda Hines-Wiseman, a piper, boarded a flight Nov.
8 for Busan, Korea — at the invitation of the East Asian nation’s government — so they could attend a special ceremony at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery where Goodwin and so many of his comrades are buried. “Elwin Goodwin was killed in action in Korea on Oct. 4, 1951, serving with the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry,” 90-year-old veteran and Korean War historian Vince Courtenay told the Sun.
Recommended video He was just 20. Courtenay said he was shot to death during close combat at Hill 187 where “the losses were by far the highest suffered in one day by any Canadian Army unit in Korea,” with 26 soldier.
