Name: McDERMOTT, GEORGE ALFRED Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Secondary Unit Text: attd. 9th Bn. Age: 29 Date of Death: 26/06/1944 Service No: CDN/221 Awards: M M Additional information: Son of John and Mary McDermott. Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 5. Cemetery: HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Name: PAFF, LORNE HENRY Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Secondary Unit Text: attd. 9th Bn. Age: 26 Date of Death: 26/06/1944 Service No: CDN/37 Additional information: Son of Herman and Laura Paff, of Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Grave/Memorial Reference: I. C. 13. Cemetery: HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Name: PURCHASE, JOHN ROBERT Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Royal Welch Fusiliers Secondary Unit Text: attd. 4th Bn. Date of Death: 17/07/1944 Service No: CDN/284 Grave/Memorial Reference: I. C. 3. Cemetery: HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Name: STEVENSON, HOWARD MILLER Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment Secondary Unit Text: attd. Age: 32 Date of Death: 16/07/1944 Service No: CDN/473 Additional information: Son of Thomas J. and Esther Stevenson; husband of Norma B. Stevenson, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 1. Cemetery: HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Name: WARD, ALLAN Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: East Yorkshire Regiment Secondary Unit Text: attd. 5th Bn. Age: 23 Date of Death: 26/06/1944 Service No: CDN/394 Additional information: Son of Allan Bradshaw Ward and Margaret Jan Ward, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His brother Richard also died on service. Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 4. Cemetery: HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Name: WILSON, EDWARD AUGUSTINE Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers Secondary Unit Text: attd. 11th Bn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 01/07/1944 Service No: CDN/420 Additional information: Son of Albert Ernest and Jennie Wilson, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 8. Cemetery: HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY
Name: CRIGHTON, ARTHUR DONALD Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Royal Welch Fusiliers Secondary Unit Text: attd. 6th Bn. Age: 29 Date of Death: 10/07/1944 Service No: CDN/141 Additional information: Husband of Lorna Frances Margaret Crighton, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Grave/Memorial Reference: II. G. 13. Cemetery: ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Name: RUSH, MATHEW CHRISTIE PAUL Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Secondary Unit Text: attd. 5th Bn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 09/07/1944 Service No: CDN/279 Additional information: Son of Frederick L. Rush, and of Susan E. Rush, of Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. Grave/Memorial Reference: IX. C. 20. Cemetery: ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Name: CARSTAIRS, KENNETH WILLIAM Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Secondary Unit Text: attd. 1st Bn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 23/08/1944 Service No: CDN/16 Additional information: Son of David Lindsay Carstairs and of Mary Jane Carstairs (nee Squibb), of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. Grave/Memorial Reference: 43. D. 5. Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Name: CRABB, ALLEN PETER Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Border Regiment Secondary Unit Text: attd. 1st Bn. Age: 29 Date of Death: 05/06/1944 Service No: CDN/140 Additional information: Son of Charles Pyatt Crabb and Ethel Crabb; husband of Eliza Waters Crabb, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Grave/Memorial Reference: 61. D. 7. Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Name: MANN, ELDON BAKER Nationality: Canadian Rank: Captain Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers Secondary Unit Text: attd. Age: 30 Date of Death: 16/04/1945 Service No: CDN/304 Additional information: Son of William R. Mann and Beatrice C. Mann, of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Grave/Memorial Reference: 51. C. 4. Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Name: McDERMOTT, GEORGE ALFRED Nationality: Canadian Rank: Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment: Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Secondary Unit Text: attd. 9th Bn. Age: 29 Date of Death: 26/06/1944 Service No: CDN/221 Awards: M M Additional information: Son of John and Mary McDermott. Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 5. Cemetery: HOTTOT-LES-BAGUES WAR CEMETERY The MM was awarded whilst he was a Lance Corporal in the 1st Battalion, Royal Hamilton Light Infantry on the Dieppe raid in 1942. You can see why he became an officer.
Name:COCHRANE, JAMES Initials:J Nationality:Canadian Rank:Lieutenant Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Secondary Regiment:Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry Secondary Unit Text: attd Age:28 Date of Death:24/03/1945 Service No:CDN/409 Awards:M C Additional information:Son of James and Isabel Cochrane, of Milliken, Ontario. Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. H. 2. Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY From the Canadian Veteran's affairs website. And his MC Citation.
this is quite a tread decidated to special and little known group Canadian volunteers. The book "Code Word Canloan" by Wilfred Smith. Gives the details of every officer loaned to British forces during the program from the time they volunteered and were accepted to til the end of the war
MERCHANT, EVATT FRANCIS ANTHONY Killed in action at 'Cameron Bridge' Holland November 1944 Rank: Captain Service No: CDN/594 Date of Death: 18/11/1944 Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps attd. 5th Bn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Grave Reference; VII. A. 12. Cemetery; MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
Nice pic. Thanks. Gives the term 'Allies' a much deeper meaning when you see the degree of cooperation and interaction between British and Canadian forces. Reminds me of Wanningen (I think that was the place) Holland 1994. The 51HD Veterans return to Holland met up with the Canadian Vets for a march through the town. As the band struck up the Canucks parted and insisted that the 'Jocks' (90% of which were other nationalities) lead the parade, nice touch I thought. Poor old Archie Fox (canloan) didn't know whether to stay or go.!!! It was a brilliant day for all concerned.
Richard - that'll be Wageningen, west of Arnhem, where all the veteran parades were held. It was at Wageningen, in hotel 'De Wereld' (the world), that the negotiations for the surrender of the last German troops, still holding out in the west of Holland took place. They capitulated on May 5th, 1945. Since then the Dutch 'National Liberation Day'. Surrender of the German Twenty-Fifth Army at Wageningen on 5 May 1945 Lieut.-General Foulkes (second from the left), G.O.C. 1st Canadian Corps, issues instruction to General Johannes Blaskowitz (second from right), commander of the German forces in the Netherlands
HEALD, CLARENCE FOSTER Rank:Lieutenant Service No:CDN/414 Date of Death:31/03/1945 Age:23 Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps attd Devonshire Regiment Grave ReferenceXII. G. 16. CemeteryHOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Service Number: CDN/414 Age: 23 Force: Army Unit: Devonshire Regiment Division: 2nd Clarence Heald was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the Devonshire Regiment as a CANLOAN Officer. Son of Joseph Ernest Foster Heald, and of Clara Heald, of London, Ontario.
Hi Tom I just saw this and a while back while having a beer at the local I was talking to acquaintance about all things ww2 and he told me that his Uncle served in North africa with the British armour. No amount of pursation could convince him otherwise so therefore it must be so.