Letters From Bill – Friday, Jan. 28, 1944
Dear Mum, Dad, Bette and Commando Jack: …Well, in four more hours I will be old enough to vote, but so far it hasn’t had
Dan Black
November 21, 2011
Dear Mum, Dad, Bette and Commando Jack: …Well, in four more hours I will be old enough to vote, but so far it hasn’t had
Here are the answers to the Readers’ Quiz in the November/December issue of Legion Magazine.
Kitcheners Wood was not named after of the British military leader. It takes its name from the kitchens French troops set up in the area in the early part of the First World War.
The Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were sent to perform garrison duty in Hong Kong when the Japanese invaded in 1941.
No. 168 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force flew mercy missions with penicillin to Warsaw, Poland, in 1945.
In 2008, Master Corporal Mike Trauner, deployed with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR), was on foot patrol in the Zhari District west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, when a remotely controlled IED (improvised explosive device) was detonated under his feet. The blast blew off his legs and propelled him in a high arc six metres through the air. In 2010, on a road in the Panjwai District, a LAV III (light armoured vehicle) drove over a buried IED, setting off an explosion. The blast sent the 16,950-kilogram vehicle as much as a metre in the air and blew a hole in the bottom of the vehicle, breaking the bones in M.Cpl. Owen Kolasky’s feet and injuring his spine. In earlier wars, both likely would have died; today both soldiers hope to continue their Canadian Forces careers following rehabilitation.
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