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Canadian Field Ambulance 1916-1919

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...

D-Day Dodgers

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...

The Battle of the Scheldt

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...

Aboriginal War Veterans Memorial

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...

Amazons Battalion

During the South African War the 62nd Regiment (St. John Fusiliers), sponsored and trained a paramilitary group made up of young women. These women showed their patriotism through military training, drill, and ceremonial duties in Saint John. Members of the...