by brucericketts | Nov 12, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
The Trews sing Highway of Heroes (lyrics below) The day I shipped out, They numbered a dozen. Upon my return, Were a hundred or so. From the coast and from the prairies, I bet they keep coming. add one more name from Ontario. Carry me home down The Highway of Heroes....
by brucericketts | Nov 12, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
Shania Twain sings about soldiers coming...
by brucericketts | Nov 10, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
Field ambulance units removed casualties from dressing stations and regimental aid posts to casualty clearing stations where urgent surgery was performed. Patients then proceeded to general to stationary hospitals and thence to a special hospital or a convalescent...
by brucericketts | Nov 3, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
The D-Day Dodgers were the Allied servicemen who fought in Italy during the Second World War. The D-Day Dodgers also inspired a popular wartime soldier’s song (Roud Folk Song Index no. 10499). A rumour spread during the war that the term was publicized by...
by brucericketts | Oct 31, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
Introduction The Battle of the Scheldt was a military operation in northern Belgium and the southwestern Netherlands that took place during the Second World War. On September 12, 1944, the First Canadian Army was given the task of clearing the Scheldt of German...
by brucericketts | Oct 29, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
To Aboriginal War Veterans in Canada and to Those Who Have Fallen “This monument is raised in sacred and everlasting honour of the contributions of all Aboriginal Canadians in war and peacekeeping operations. Many thousands of aboriginal people saw action and endured...
