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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
This being the 60th Anniversary of the end of WWII and close to D-Day, it's interesting to recall how flabbergasted the people of Normandy were when they were liberated by "British tommies" who spoke "rustic" French! Those were, of course, Canadian soldiers. ...
Other accessories include a choice between different helmets and Tom O’shanter hats, specifically for the Scottish troops in the section. Warlord Games say the forces provided are aimed at accurately reproducing the late WWII British and Canadian infantry section (that’s British for a ~7-man ...
allowing for greater contact with the native peoples and creating new points of development for the French crown. Catholicism was not the only side of assimilation in the New World; in many occasions, French explorers, soldiers, and settlers settled with native communities, raising families and dev...
Source Material: “Sixty Years of War – The Official History of the Canadian Army in World War II Volume 1” by Colonel C.P. Stacey & The Canadian Army WWII Training Establishments web site –www.canadiansoldiers.com/wwiitrain.htm.
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...
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.