by brucericketts | Jun 20, 2018 | Operations, Uncategorized
Cemeteries in Italy (A-B)
by brucericketts | Jun 20, 2018 | Operations, Uncategorized
War Cemeteries in Sicily Agira Canadian War Cemetery Catania War Cemetery Syracuse War...
by brucericketts | Jun 20, 2018 | Operations, Uncategorized
The South African War (1899-1902) or, as it is also known, the Boer War, marked Canada’s first official dispatch of troops to an overseas war. [The reason we refer to this as the Second Boer War is that for 5 months in 1880-1881, the British and the South...
by brucericketts | Jun 19, 2018 | Operations, Uncategorized
The Dieppe Raid was an Allied assault on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France on 19 August 1942, during the Second World War. The main assault lasted less than six hours until strong German defences and mounting Allied losses forced its commanders to call a...
by brucericketts | Jun 17, 2018 | Operations, Uncategorized
The following Canadians are buried at Bari War Cemetery. ADAMS, Gunner, GEORGE FREDERICK, B/6434. 1 Field Regt., Royal Canadian Artillery. 9 October 1943. Age 20. Son of Charles and Jessie May Adams, of Simcoe, Ontario. Grave Reference: III. C. 17. AIKEN, Private,...
by brucericketts | Jun 17, 2018 | Operations, Uncategorized
BARDON, Captain, HOWARD. 28th Armd. Regt., British Columbia Regiment, R.C.A.C.. 31 July 1944. Age 36. Husband of Bertha Ethel Bardon. Grave Reference: VI, B, 10. BARLAND, Lance Corporal, KENNETH CARL, C/40005. 12th Armd. Regt., Three Rivers Regiment, R.C.A.C.. 26 June...
