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Walter Emerson Servant (F-2477 Gunner) enlisted in the Royal Canadian Artillery on May 15, 1942 and was discharged Feb. 8, 1946.
He was born Dec. 30, 1917, in Yarmouth County and died Nov.9, 1977, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was the son of Emerson and Gladys (Porter) Servant. He began his surveying career in the timberlands of New Brunswick, and after some years of construction surveys on defence sites early in WWII, he served in Canada and northwest Europe (Holland) as an artillery surveyor.
After attending N.S. Land Survey Institute, he worked 10 years for the Province of N.S., and then started his own survey company, which grew to become the present Servant, Dunbrack, McKenzie and Macdonald Ltd.
Walter loved boating and reading history. He was married to the late Phyllis Jeanette ( Allen). His two sons, Gregory Walter and Stuart Allen, and one daughter, Janet Elizabeth reside in the Halifax area.
