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fat tony
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One of my Army friends shared a similar callsign to the depicted RCN Beach Commando.
One of the early tactical vests. Shows quality materials and workmanship, although I've a feeling it was like wearing a loaded C2 vest. At least it was more balanced in appearance and function.
caption: 'Personnel of Le Regiment de la Chaudiere using rubber raft to cross the Berkel. 7 Apr 1945.'
from: https://www.battlefieldtours.nu/package/the-battle-zutphen/?lang=en
an account of the Liberation of Zutphen
The soldier holding the heaving line is claimed to be wearing a set of British Medical Research Council body armour.
Canada in Holland in WWII primer
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/classroom/fact-sheets/netherlands
Zutphen cost 17 members of the Chaudiere Regiment killed, total of 56 casualties in all. Ousting the Axis forces from Holland cost Canada well over 7,000 KIA. April, 79 years ago. .
80 years ago or more, 1515 Canadian soldiers fell in battle including RCAF airmen and soldiers who fought in the various campaigns before 1944, and rest in war graves in Adegem, Brussels, Louvain, Hotton, and Antwerp, Belgium.
Serene Schoosenhof:
At each of these cemeteries there are the remains of unidentified soldiers, some may be Canadians. RIP.
Does there exist anywhere an estimate of Canadians KIA during the Battle of France, 1940? Even those who may have served in UK units? We all know the legend of Commander James Campbell Clouston RN who was Piermaster KIA in Operation Dynamo.
It seems the RCN took horrible casualties:
https://canadiansatarms.ca/canadians-and-dunkirk/
Sounds like the inner circle of heck.
Postscript:
Many of the surviving crewmen from the Fraser were transferred to her replacement, HMCS Margaree. Margaree collided with the Freighter MV Port Fairy resulting in the Margaree being torn in two. There were 142 crewmen killed on the Margaree.
All happening within a little over 4 months, on October 22.
One of the early tactical vests. Shows quality materials and workmanship, although I've a feeling it was like wearing a loaded C2 vest. At least it was more balanced in appearance and function.
caption: 'Personnel of Le Regiment de la Chaudiere using rubber raft to cross the Berkel. 7 Apr 1945.'
from: https://www.battlefieldtours.nu/package/the-battle-zutphen/?lang=en
an account of the Liberation of Zutphen
The soldier holding the heaving line is claimed to be wearing a set of British Medical Research Council body armour.
Canada in Holland in WWII primer
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/classroom/fact-sheets/netherlands
Zutphen cost 17 members of the Chaudiere Regiment killed, total of 56 casualties in all. Ousting the Axis forces from Holland cost Canada well over 7,000 KIA. April, 79 years ago. .
80 years ago or more, 1515 Canadian soldiers fell in battle including RCAF airmen and soldiers who fought in the various campaigns before 1944, and rest in war graves in Adegem, Brussels, Louvain, Hotton, and Antwerp, Belgium.
Serene Schoosenhof:
At each of these cemeteries there are the remains of unidentified soldiers, some may be Canadians. RIP.
Does there exist anywhere an estimate of Canadians KIA during the Battle of France, 1940? Even those who may have served in UK units? We all know the legend of Commander James Campbell Clouston RN who was Piermaster KIA in Operation Dynamo.
It seems the RCN took horrible casualties:
https://canadiansatarms.ca/canadians-and-dunkirk/
Sounds like the inner circle of heck.
Postscript:
Many of the surviving crewmen from the Fraser were transferred to her replacement, HMCS Margaree. Margaree collided with the Freighter MV Port Fairy resulting in the Margaree being torn in two. There were 142 crewmen killed on the Margaree.
All happening within a little over 4 months, on October 22.
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First one I saw was as a teen, it belonged to a unique character, Czech I believe and single as well.
His whole house was a gun collection, room after room, walls covered with military arms. It was a great show, bigger than I expected.
fat tony
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Controversial Orde Wingate. He looks like the Grim Reaper in this pic. Maybe it is more likely he was fighting off a flare up of malaria.
The Major Warden character in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai seemed to partially allude to Wingate's eccentricity.
'Madness, madness!'
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Controversiam Orde Wingate.
The officer character in the anti war film The Long and the Short and the Tall seemed to partially allude to Wingate's eccentricity.
A very eccentric officer who would walk around with an onion around his neck , occasionally taking a bite out of the onion, having a O Group with Wingate standing in the nude, he had a alarm clock around his neck , when the alarm went off , the O Group was over , combing his pubic hair with a tooth brush
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fat tony
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The details are grisly.
Moishe Dayan said Wingate taught him everything he knew. Wingate was an I.O. in Palestine. That is until he was reassigned (ahem).
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fat tony
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I made a mistake. As I subsequently recalled all the troops in The Long and the Short and the Tall were non commissioned ranks.
