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In memory of:

Lance Corporal Lorne Auley Emerson

Military service

Service number: SC8727
Age: 20
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Royal Canadian Regiment
Division: 1st Battalion
Birth: December 5, 1931 Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment: February 7, 1951 Ottawa, Ontario
Death: October 22, 1952

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 21, Row, 7, Grave 1337
Additional information

Son of K.J. and Thelma Emerson of Ottawa, Ontario. Brother of William Floyd and Robert Vance. Father of Earl Henry Belcourt. Lance Corporal Emerson attended Scarborough Collegiate in Toronto, Ontario. A Memorial erected by the Korean Veterans Association, National Capital Unit, commemorating the 516 Canadians who died in the Korean War was unveiled and rededicated during Veterans Week 2003 at Ottawa City Hall Headquarters on Elgin Street.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 21 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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