LEVISON, Joseph Yehudi
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- Collection
- Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Material Type
- textual record
- Date of Death
- May 26, 1951
- Place of Burial
- Tanggok, South Korea
- Cemetery
- United Nations Cemetery (Busan)
- Age at Time of Death
- 22
- Enlistment No.
- TF7448503
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Unit
- Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
- Notes
- Lieutenant Joseph Levison, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, a Canadian Army public relations officer attached to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, was killed when a jeep in which he was a passenger drove over a Communist road mine. Lieutenant Levison was well known and active in Jewish circles in Halifax. He was a Dalhousie University student when he enlisted in the special force, which later became the 25th Canadian Brigade. He had been in Korea since December 1950. (Source: CJC publication IOI-PR, June 8, 1951) It is believed that Lieutenant Levison was the only Jewish casualty of the Korean War. Lieutenant Levison is commemorated on the Nova Scotia Korea War Memorial with his fellow Nova Scotians who lost their lives in the Korean War. The memorial is located at Pleasant and Parade Streets in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. It was unveiled and dedicated in a ceremony on August 16, 2003.
- Subjects
- Korean War
- Record Source
- Canadian Jewish Military Casualties
- Fonds No.
- CJC0001
- Archival / Genealogical
- Genealogy Records
- Repository
- Canadian Jewish Archives
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