Sgt Harold Nash, CD (Ret'd)

We regret to advise of the passing of Sergeant Harold Nash, CD (Ret'd) on 20 September 2020 in Coe Hill ON at the age of 94 years.

Harold was born in Toronto ON. In February 1944, during the Second World War, Harold enlisted in the Royal Canadian Artillery and later transferred to the Royal Canadian Engineers. He was soon sent to England and served in the closing days of the fighting in Northwest Europe with the 32^nd Field Company. When the war ended, the 21^st Army Group, of which the Canadian Army was part, began the clean-up of concentration camps across Northern Germany. A considerable number of Canadian soldiers, individually picked from across all units, took part. Harold was unfortunate to have had to assist in the cleaning-up of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp when the war ended.  He stayed on in the Army and served in Egypt with the UN Emergency Force (UNEF), as well as Alert in Canada’s far north.

Harold retired in 1967. In 1987, he moved to Coe Hill where he served in every executive role including 18 years as President.