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Fired a few L60's and L70's in 40 MM. Designed for AD. L60 being the crank version and L70 could work off radar, one handed with control or crank.
 
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For the cold-blooded, premeditated murder of another POW. As long as you didn't murder anyone in the Canadian POW camps, you did just fine...
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Well I don't know. They did complain to the Red Cross about the urinals being too low in one camp.

Lehman's killing was a Nazi enforcement job. Unlike in the movies, most of the PoWs seem to have been dedicated Nazis. Who'd of thought eh? :rolleyes:
 
Who guarded the Germans while in captivity? The Veterans Guard of Canada:

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A brief writeup, courtesy of https://powsincanada.wordpress.com/veterans-guard-of-canada/

With the outbreak of war in Europe in the fall of 1939, thousands of Canadians flocked to enlistment stations to do their part in the upcoming conflict. Among them were veterans of the First World War, the majority now in their forties, who once again were willing to serve their country. First told that they were too old for active service overseas, many of these veterans were turned away in favour of the young, able-bodied enlistees. The veterans, however, were not deterred; these men persisted with their attempts to enlist and eventually their voices were heard. The Canadian government agreed that their military experience could not be tossed aside and therefore established the Veteran’s Home Guard, later renamed the Veterans Guard of Canada, in May 1940. Following the example of the British Home Guard, the Veterans Guard of Canada was initially established as a defence force in the case of a German or Japanese attack on Canadian soil. Organized into numbered companies of approximately 250 men, the Veterans Guard included both Active and Reserve companies. Those in Active Companies served full-time and were rotated throughout the country while reserve companies served a militia role and generally remained in one location. Recruiting across the country, the Veterans Guard eventually reached its peak strength in June 1943 with 451 officers and 9,806 other ranks on Active service.

In addition to serving as a defence force and guarding military installations, the Veterans Guard also assumed the responsibility of guarding Canadian internment camps. Taking over from the Canadian Provost Corps, the Veterans Guard helped free up younger Canadians for overseas service. Thirty-seven active companies and seventeen internment camp staffs were eventually raised for these duties. While the vast majority of the Veterans Guard remained on Canadian soil for the duration of the war, a small number of companies were dispatched around the globe. The General Duty Company was attached to the Canadian Military Headquarters in London, England, companies were dispatched to the Bahamas (No. 33 Coy.), British Guiana (No. 34 Coy.), and Newfoundland, and a smaller group escorted a shipment of mules to India.

In the later years of the war and as the threat of foreign invasion diminished, the reserve companies of the Veterans Guard were disbanded and the men returned to civilian life. For those on Active Duty, they continued with their duties around the country. With the end of the war and as Prisoners of War were slowly transferred back to Great Britain between 1945 and 1947, the Active companies were also disbanded. Those remaining assisted in escorting PoWs across the Atlantic. The Veterans Guard of Canada was official struck off active service in 1947.
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Dad's Army, "Eh" company... Some of these lads look well off warranty.
 
Oh I know that it wasn't the rifles fault and mainly the ammos, I am just curious on how they would have felt being issued a rifle they thought failed them in combat (kinda like how if you reissued something like the Chauchat to the Americans).
 
Hard to say. My wife`s uncle told me that when he was in training WWII. They had Rosses and most guys were slowly popping off rounds.

Until he ripped through a few chargers. Then everyone started blasting away.

He was pretty familiar with Ross rifles as a fare number of people hunted with them in this area.
 
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As a kid in Lethbridge, my dad drove me by the site of the old POW camp, which at that time had become a propane business (not sure what it is now, haven't been there in a while), there were stories of POWs still burried in unmarked graves in pine boxes.

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As a kid in Lethbridge, my dad drove me by the site of the old POW camp, which at that time had become a propane business (not sure what it is now, haven't been there in a while), there were stories of POWs still burried in unmarked graves in pine boxes.

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Wonder what Feldwebel Werner Schwalb would have thought if he had been told that he was going to end up sharing his grave and gravestone for all time with a man who was hanged for murdering one of his comrades...
 
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