12th Manitoba Dragoons

(18th Armoured Car Regiment)

3 t/m  23 februari & 15 t/m 21 maart 1945

   

July 8th and 9th 1944:

Regiment lands at Juno Beach in Normandy

 

February 3rd 1945:

Regiment moves to Dreumel and Wamel. Lacking suitable buildings, headquarters is moved to Megen.
 

February 24th 1945:

Regiment moves to Groesbeek, later on to  Kleef because of Rhine offensive
 

March 12th 1945:

Regiment returns to Dreumel and Wamel.
 

March 20th 1945:

Regiment moves to Groesbeek and takes positions in the  Reichs forest.
 
 

 

  
  February 1945: Machine gun along the Maasdyk in front of the house of the Jan van Hoften family  
  February 1945: Jack Stewart and Rudy (?) in de Rooijsestraat in front of the house of the van Lith family (opposite R.C.Church). In the middle a Ford Lynx scoutcar,
rat right a Staghound of A- squadron 12th Manitoba Dragoons		  
   
   
 
   
  February 1945: R.C.Church after some direct hits  
     
   
   



 
 

Staghound F215633-C122 of 12th Manitoba Dragoons stops in the Eykhovenstraat. At right some children living in the neighbourhood. See photograph at right)

At rear, L-R:Capt J.C. Calcutt, Ottawa Ont., Lt  H.A. Stephens, Westminster Regiment, New Westminster, BC.,  Tpr A.R. Litchfield, Winnipeg, Man., TRP W.J. Flanagan, Cutknife, Sask.  At front: Pte J.A. Kingsnorth, Westminster, BC,  Pte S.N. Drummond, Vancouver, BC, Westminster Regiment, Sgt  J.D. Magill, Saskatoon, Sask. Westminster Regiment.

 

  
 

Who recognises these children?
They probably lived lived in the Eijkhovenstraat in Dreumel

  

Send your information to: info@tremele.nl

   
 

A photograph taken at the same time as the one above. The four soldiers are sitting on top of the "Sergeants Car" (C Sqdrn, 2nd car.
Left tot right: Capt. J.C. Calcutt 12th Manitoba Dragoons; Lt H.A. Stephens, Westminster Regiment; Tpr. Flanagan, Manitoba Dragoons; Tpr. Litchfield, Manitoba Dragoons.

 (source: Marco Hogenkamp - Lichtenvoorde).

  
 

Staghound F215633-C122 nowadays.
(owner: Marco Hogenkamp from Lichtenvoorde).

  
   
 
Staghound F215633-C122  at the parade in Amsterdam June 28th,1945.
(bron: Marco Hogenkamp - Lichtenvoorde).		  
   
   
 

Somewhere in Holland

  
  Februariy 1945: photograph probably taken at Ewijk
(at the back a storage barn). L-R: Tpr. John McTavish and Tpr. F.G. Sadler.		  
   
   
 
   
Don McEachern Percy (Pat) Jones Tpr. R.O. Crawley