Found a really useful document doing a lookup for someone at Kew. It's a complete nominal roll of casualties of the above unit. Every Officer and Other Rank is listed.
The Royal 22nd [theVingtdoos] was a French Canadian Regiment From Quebec City and was/is a Pemanant force regiment of the 3rd CIB of the 1st CID. It was always plagued by replacement shortages as were all French Canadian Infantry Battalions [there were 4]. I suspect there was a great deal of pressure to get wounded men back in the line, you notice a fairly high rate of multiple wounds in the role. I wonder if this is higher than other Canadian regiments? Major Paul Triquet was awarded a V.C. for the units defence of Casa Berardi South of Ortona leading up to the epic battle.
I've been reading a book about the First Canadian Army and it states that the Le Regiment de la Chaudieres had the lowest casualties of any Canadian unit, 1014 men for 11 months of being in theatre. This includes 263 killed, the rest wounded or captured. The highest was Black Watch of Canada with 1772 casualties for 10 months in theatre. They had 502 killed. Frightening stats.
ramacal As you perhaps know - the 22e regiment were a third part of Canada's permanent force representing the Quebec and Maritime provinces - the royal Canadian regiment represented Ontario and the Central part of the country and the PPCLI ( Princess Pats ) represented the Western provinces- all others were reserve units and all in WW2 until very late - were volunteers... (The Vandoos )22E were the lead battalion in 3rd bde of 1st Cdn div and we often had to support them in various actions..but our main support was to the Seaforths and PPCLI's and Loyal Edmontons of 2nd bde and were involved when "Smokey Smith" of the Seaforths was awarded his V.C. at the Savio..near Cesena in Northern Italy in October of '44 Cheers
