This morning I read an extract from Wilfred Smith's book 'Code Word Canloan'. It mentioned that 673 Canadian officers served as Canloan's, of which 128 were killed.
MARSH, ROBERT GEORGE Rank:Captain Service No:CDN/485 Date of Death:24/10/1944 Age:30 Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps attd. 6th Bn Royal Welch Fusiliers Grave Reference3. A. 1. CemeteryUDEN WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of John George and Alice Maude Marsh; husband of Margaret Elizabeth Marsh, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Originally posted by Pieter F - Links to ImageShack damaged)
Lieutenant BELANGER, HENRY EDWARD Service Number: CDN/63 Died: 28/06/1944 Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. 10th Bn. Durham Light Infantry BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS Hank with wife Katherine (Carthy) Belanger, 1943 (Photo from Canadian Virtual War Memorial)
Lieutenant BOWMAN, JOHN EDWARD Service Number: CDN/130 Died: 22/06/1944 Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. 6th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Additional Information: Son of William and Mildred Bowman, of Georgetown. Ontario. BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS (Photo from Canadian Virtual War Memorial)
Lieutenant BENNETT, WILLIAM ALBERT Service Number: CDN/65 Died: 18/07/1944 Service: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. Dorsetshire Regiment BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS (Photo from Canadian Virtual War Memorial)
Captain BOURGET, JOSEPH ARTHUR RAYMOND Service Number: CDN/112 Died: 08/07/1944 Aged: 21 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. 2/6th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment Additional Information: B.Sc. Son of J. Albert and Anne-Marie Bourget, of Quebec City. BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS
Lieutenant DUNCAN, DONALD ALBERT Service Number: CDN/450 Died: 09/07/1944 Aged: 28 Regiment: Winnipeg Light Infantry, R.C.I.C. Unit: attd. Welch Regiment Additional Information: Son of Ralph C. and Coral Estelle Duncan, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. B.A. (University of Manitoba). BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS (Photo from Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Newspaper clipping – In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me)
Lieutenant PHELPS, THOMAS ANDREW Service Number: CDN/355 Died: 18/07/1944 Aged: 24 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. 1st Bn. East Lancashire Regiment Other Information: Son of the Revd. Canon James Edgar William Phelps and Annie Phelps; husband of Helen Marcia Phelps, of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS
Lieutenant ROBINSON, WILLIAM BEVERLEY Service Number: CDN/225 Died: 10/08/1944 Aged: 23 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. Royal Scots Fusiliers Other Information: Son of de Lancey Allaire Robinson and Freda Amelia Robinson, of Toronto, Ontario. BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS
Lieutenant SCOTT, FREDERICK Service Number: CDN/314 Died: 11/07/1944 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. Seaforth Highlanders BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS
Lieutenant SMITH, DONALD JACK Service Number: CDN/391 Died: 08/07/1944 Aged: 26 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. Royal Norfolk Regiment Other Information: Son of Donald O. and Nellie C. Smith; husband of Mabel Norma Smith, of Toronto, Ontario. BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS
Lieutenant THOMSON, RAYMOND WOOD Service Number: CDN/363 Died: 09/07/1944 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. North Staffordshire Regiment BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS (Photo & Information from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial)
Lieutenant YOUNG, RICHARD OLIVER Service Number: CDN/108 Died: 29/06/1944 Aged: 25 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. 8th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Other Information: Son of Harry Oliver Young, and of Clara Young, of Montreal, Province of Quebec. His brother Peter Byrne Young also fell. BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, REVIERS (Photo & Information from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Newspaper Clipping – Lieutenant Richard Oliver Young obit Montreal Gazette July 20 1944 courtesy McGill University archives)
Lieutenant ROSE, MALCOLM RUDOLPH Service Number: CDN/502 Died: 06/08/1944 Aged: 26 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. King's Own Scottish Borderers Son of George Edward and Margaret Mae Rose, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY (Photo & Information from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial)
Lieutenant ROBERTSON, ROBERT KENNY Service Number: CDN/329 Died: 10/08/1944 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. South Staffordshire Regiment BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY (Photo & Information from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial)
Lieutenant NOISEUX, JOSEPH ARTHUR Service Number: CDN/182 Died:14/06/1944 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. The Hallamshire Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Lieutenant BUSHELL, ANDREW FRASER Service Number: CDN/134 Died: 08/08/1944 Aged: 20 Regiment: Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Unit: attd. 7th Bn. Royal Norfolk Regiment Son of Harold Leonard Victor and Annie Mabel Bushell, of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Lieutenant W.A. Harvie & Captain Phillip H. Turner. Both Harvie and Turner fought at Arnhem with the 4th Parachute Brigade, 1st Airborne Division (British Army), and Turner was awarded the American Distinguished Service Cross. Only these two CANLOAN officers out of the twenty that served at Arnhem managed to escape. Harvie and Turner both served with 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment and both were evacuated across the Rhine before the battle ended. Market Garden A total of thirty-two CANLOAN officers were made prisoners during the war, more than half of them during the fighting at Arnhem in September 1944. In fact, the greatest single concentration of the 673 CANLOAN officers was in the 1st Airlanding Brigade of the 1st Airborne Division, which boasted 47 Canadian officers on its rolls (23 serving in the 7th Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, 13 in 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment, and 11 in the 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment.) Eight of the KOSB battalion's 27 platoons were commanded by Canadians. Three Canadians also served in the parachute units of 1st Airborne Division, two with the 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, and Lieutenant James McKenna who was killed with 11 Para on 22 September. Only one Canadian, Lieutenant Leo Heaps, was with the 1st Parachute Brigade on 17 September, serving in a supernumerary capacity with the headquarters of the 1st Battalion of The Parachute Regiment. Heaps was captured on 25 September though he subsequently escaped and worked with the Dutch Resistance, earning a Military Cross. (Source:Library and Archives Canada)
Just been looking through some images/scans from bits in my collection and thought I'd add the few Canloan related bits CAN/139 George William Comper - Service Dress of, Bill Comper commanded 18 Platoon C Company 1 Border at Arnhem, he was wounded when a bullet passed through one cheek and out the other shattering a number of teeth - a good veteran friend of mine knew Bill well and helped him back to safety CAN/486 George G Marrs, letter home from POW camp - served with 1st Hampshire's and taken POW 19/6/44 at Hottot - he had only joined the Battalion on the 14th CAN/49 Raymond J Watson, letter back to England, 1st Black Watch wounded 24/3/45 Rhine Crossing CDN/442 William Gordon Chatterton - Fieldcraft manual - served in 6th Beds & Herts then with 1/5th Queens
Héritage has getting on for 4,000 pages of material available: Department of National Defence : subject files,... - Héritage. The reciprocal loans of British officers to Canada begins here Department of National Defence : subject files,... - Héritage and continues on the next reel, but the majority appears to be on the, as yet, undigitised reel C-8393.
