January 2012:
Private Don Glover of the Royal
Hamilton Light Infantry, photographed near Nijmegen,
Netherlands, on 5 February 1945. The Canadian Army
had wintered in fairly comfortable winter quarters
in the Nijmegen Salient during the winter of
1944-45, with only occasional patrols to occupy the
majority of the army for the three month period
between the end of the Battle of the Scheldt, and
the start of the Rhineland fighting on 8 February
1945. Glover wears standard Battle Dress, with a
leather jerkin, which was common winter clothing.
For added warmth, he's added his camouflaged face
veil as a scarf, and he has a knit "cap comforter"
under his steel helmet.
Library and Archives Canada photo.
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August 2011:
A Sherman tank of
the 8th Princess Louise's (New Brunswick) Hussars of
the 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division takes part in a
predicted mass shoot, in Italy, 2 March 1944. The
Sherman has been criticized since the war for not being
able to stand up to heavy German armour in tank-vs.-tank
fights, but in reality was a versatile universal
vehicle, used for infantry support, breakthrough and
pursuit, and as shown here, even for indirect fire
missions. This vehicle has an unusual twin Bren gun
mounting behind the commander's hatch.
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November 2010:
Private J.S.P. Bowen of Princess
Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry says goodbye to a young
friend before leaving Italy for a thirty-day Christmas
leave in Canada in 1944.
Library and Archives Canada photo. |
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| November 2009:
Soldiers of the 13th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary
Force consolidating a captured
German trench in July, 1916.
Library and Archives Canada
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| December 2008:
Personnel of Strathcona's Horse on their way to the war
in South Africa at the turn of the 20th Century. Library
and Archives Canada photo. |
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| November 2008: An
unidentified gunner of the Saskatoon Light Infantry (M.G.)
laying down harassing fire with a Vickers machine gun
near Ortona, Italy, 7 January 1944. Library and Archives
Canada photo. |
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May
2007: A wounded infantryman of The
Royal Winnipeg Rifles talks to correspondents after the
attack on Carpiquet airfield during Operation WINDSOR in
July 1944. Library and Archives Canada photo. |
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