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My father was with the 48th Highlanders of Canada. They were part of the invasion of Sicily. When he came home he planted red tulips in our front garden every year. I think the red was a tribute to the poppy.
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My family, on both my mom’s side and dad’s side lived through the Nazi occupation in The Netherlands. My mom’s family lived in Groningen and my dad’s family lived in Amsterdam. My grandmother (my dad’s mother) who lived in a large house on the Amstel Canal was part of the Dutch Resistance working as a...
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Bill Harris served his country from 1942-1946 in the Canadian Army, Second Armoured Brigade, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He married Joan in 1944 in Norwich, England and after the war they lived in Wingham, Ontario. They often returned to Holland for reunions to commemorate the Liberation of...
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I’m a teacher and I shared with my students this wonderful photo of my great-uncle, Vernon Baker, in Dam Square, in Amsterdam, at the end of World War II.
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My grandparents lived in a town called Herpen in South Brabant in Holland. They had a family of 16 children (not all survived). My mother, Theresa Vandenberg, told us a lot of stories about war time. The most shocking story happened when she was 7 years old – on the night of Thursday, July 20,...
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He was my great uncle, who died age 22 following the battle of St Eloi. He is buried in the Canadian Military Cemetery at Reninghelst, West Flanders, Belgium.
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Douglas Easterbrook was a Rifleman with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, R.C.I.C.
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Originally a member of the Royal Highland Regiment of Montreal in 1939, he later joined the Royal Canadian Dragoons and landed at Sicily on 8 November 1943, then the mainland on 5 January 1944 and advanced up as a leader of an armoured car squadron. His regiment was part of the 1st Canadian Corps, until...
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He was my great uncle, who died age 22 following the battle of St Eloi. He is buried in the Canadian Military Cemetery at Reninghelst, West Flanders, Belgium.
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For our fathers who fought and won. My Dad Domenico went to war – a Canadian but Italian descent so was often shot at because of this. Carl Dyrda who was a prisoner of war – but a great man to know. THANK YOU both of you for what you did.
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