Major Harry Eisenhauer
West Nova Scotia Regiment

‘Tis true they say I died as heroes go,
I scorned to bow to shot and shell,
But boldly led on against the foe
And leading thus I fell.
Death comes swiftly for the brave.
This brush with glory
Meant the grave for me.

(Eisenhauer, “Visit from an Old Friend,” 1989)

Born on 9 July 1920 in Lower La Have, Nova Scotia, Harry MacDonald Eisenhauer was a Dalhousie University student when selected for officer training in 1940. He went overseas as a reinforcement officer and was attached to the West Nova Scotia Regiment. By the end of the war, when he led the regiment home as commanding officer, he was one of only a handful of originals still with the unit who had landed at Sicily on 10 July 1943.

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