Dingwall, Don Canadian Vehicle Markings: A Comprehensive Guide to the Colours and Markings of the Canadian Army Overseas During WWII (Canadian Tracks Publishing, Carp, ON) Letter from Colonel Ernest Sansom, Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General, 1st Canadian Division, 28 May 1940, reproduced ...
Israel invaded Egypt in October 1956, which the British and French then used as an excuse to "protect" the canal from the waring parties, however, this act of naked aggression failed, leaving Egypt and Israel in a state of war, that could have easily expanded had Lester B Pearson not ...
SOE agents were highly trained irregular soldiers, some of them commandos, some of them women, who worked with underground resistance units waging guerrilla warfare and sabotage attacks in enemy territory. In the words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, it was the SOE’s job “to set ...
Scene 5, Toy Soldiers Fantasy Scene 3, Circle Dance Side view of Stadium set at Hamilton < Scene 7, 1911 HM Dockyard Gun Race Scene 8, Spitfire used in the WWII scene Scene 8, Last Post Scene 10, comedy routine Tattoo '67 massed bands on Parliament Hill, Ottawa ...
In 1915 Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae wrote the immortal poem "In Flanders Fields". The poem refers to the fields of red poppies that grew between the graves of the soldiers that died in the Battles of Ypres. The poem first published anonymously in Great Britain, quickly ...
In 1944 Internment Camp 103 was established on site and 1700 German POW’s were imprisoned here until July 1946, after which the camp reverted to a training area for Regular and Reserve force soldiers. In 1950, 25 Infantry Brigade, Canada’s Army commitment to the UN’s Commonwealth Contingen...
The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume shares the story of the tense final days of WWII, remembered in the Netherlands as “the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation. Order your copy>>>WWII Book Library Testimonials “I wanted to let you know ...
Originally opened in 1929 as a militia summer camp. Soldiers were quartered in tents until the construction of permanent buildings as an Unemployment Relief Effort in 1933, under the direction of Captain (later Major-General) Chris Volkes.
You’ll be able to pre-order the British and Canadian Starter Army kit from Warlord Games’web storefrom February 6 If you’re eager to join the fray of battle in a tabletop wargame (but don’t fancy painting all the soldiers right now), read our guide to thebest war board games....
Quigley Inspired the Soldiers to Follow Him into a Hail of Bullets But this was not totally unexpected. “Listen clear now! Pay attention!” senior NCOs had bellowed in the different aircraft. “As soon as you hit the bloody deck, and you’re out of your parachutes, fix bayone...