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The Westminster Regiment (Motor)
March 21 - April 5, 1945 |
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Three soldiers pushing a 6-pounder antitankgun into a garden in Dreumel, March 21, 1945. Left to right: Private G. Moore, Williamslake BC, Private H. Paquin, Drummondville Quebec, Private A. Stewart, Toronto, Ontario. This photograph was found in a canadian calender at a exchange mart. the photograph was taken in the Veerstraat. At the back is the house of the van Rijn family. In the entrance mother van Rijn, accompagnied by her son Henk or his brother. |
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Soldiers
with there scoutcar in the Eykhovenstraat. At right a house built after the
flooding in 1926. Here lived the Papleu family.The house is pulled down. Who
recognises the children?
Back. Left
to Right: 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 Standing; |
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After seeing
action in Italy, the regiment was ordered to depart for Holland. Lieutenant
Jack Cambridge stayed in march 1945 for about a month with Grad and Mieke
Salet at the Rooijsestraat 13. Grad and Mieke had a barbershop and a small
store (photograph 2nd from left)where they sold cigars and cigarettes.
Jack Cambridge was killed by a sniper in the streets of Nijmegen April 15, 1945 and is buried at the Canadian War Cemetery at Groesbeek. March 2004 his son Douglas Cambridge (right) and his wife Irene visited his grave at Groesbeek and also spent some hours at Dreumel. |
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