YARMOUTH — With 2013 declared the year of the Korean War veteran, a Yarmouth memorial to Nova Scotia’s fallen Korean War service members will be reintroduced to the public, with the name of a soldier from Springhill now included. 

Ralph Elvin Turnbull of Springhill was killed Jan. 1, 1954 — after an armistice was signed — while he was serving with the Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, known more commonly as the Black Watch. 

His name is now prominent on the granite structure to be unveiled anew on July 27, the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War truce. 

In 2003, when the Yarmouth monument went up, Cecil Roy served as first vice-president of the Atlantic Provinces Korean Veterans Association. 

There’s no longer a local Korean veterans group in Yarmouth, Roy said Tuesday. 

But at that time, he was involved in fundraising. 

“It cost about $13,000 to erect,” he said of the memorial. 

In 2010, while visiting South Korea, Roy learned that Turnbull’s name was missing from the monument. 

“It was just an oversight, that’s all,” said Roy, a retired merchant seaman and former Black Watch infantryman. 

The monument had been erected with what local organizers believed was a complete list of Nova Scotia’s Korean War dead at 29 names. 

A few additions have now brought the total to 34.  Turnbull’s name was the last one added. 

“We missed a few along the way,” Roy said of the initial effort, organized by veterans. 

The soldiers are buried in South Korea and the Yarmouth memorial is something to tell people that the fallen troops are still there, he said. 

Turnbull enlisted in 1942 in his hometown, three weeks before his 18th birthday, and went overseas where he saw action during the Second World War, says Veterans Affairs Canada. 

He was decorated for volunteer service in the 1940s and again decorated, posthumously, for his Korean volunteer service. 

Turnbull had six brothers and four sisters. 

He is buried in the United Nations Cemetery in Buson, federal records say. 

Ten years ago, the town of Yarmouth provided a piece of property at Parade and Pleasant streets, where the memorial park has since become established with flower gardens and park benches and the five-panelled granite monument. 

Roy said he has asked political leaders to attend the the new unveiling at 11 a.m. on July 27. 

Canada sent more than 26,000 troops to fight under a UN banner and 516 were killed, Veterans Affairs Canada says.