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Anyone happen to have any details on the No. 21 Canadian General Hospital for 1944? One of the comments on a No. 22 Canadian General Hospital page says Bramshott, but I wonder if that's a typo. I'm researching a soldier who was transferred from Horton Emergency Hospital, Epsom Surrey to No. 21 Canad...

Another 5 today, I think that confirms it. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/369947 http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/80003833 http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-vi...

Working with the data from the CVWM I noticed that my numbers from the database for today's Honour Roll were different than the posted Honour Roll's. I found four entries which are marked as CASUALTY_TYPE=7 which are not listed on today's Honour Roll even though they died on this day of the year. Th...

http://www.bamf.be/Dispersals/Dispersals_Nov_2015.pdf

98 SQUADRON CREWS LOST
07 JUN 44 - 25 NOV 44

11/12-Jun-44 Night
A/C ID & Serial: VO-D FW184

F/S Thurston, W.V., Killed
F/S Dean, F.G., Killed
F/S Girvin, W.I., Killed
F/S Zado, A.F., PoW

The arrow is not pointing to Garvin/Firvin but a Gregory Allen, still, No. 98 Squadron.

http://members.storm.ca/~allenw/The_98_ ... n_Page.htm

"G" is right beside "F" on the keyboard, seems plausible.

Hey Puttenham, welcome to the site! You might enjoy this photo I took at The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 005 in Lochem, Netherlands

Major C. E. Baker landed on LCT4 707 scheduled for H+20 minutes, LCT4 707 carrying 1 x Jeep with 3 crew from 22nd Canadian Field Ambulance, RCAMC He wrote the attached reconnaissance report the following day, June 7 1944, from the H.M.S. Waverly. The War Diary entry for his unit, 22 Canadian Field A...

Great! I'm adding these to the Battles section of the site.

The last book I read was,

Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944

Mostly read on a flight as I kicked off a tour of battlefields in Normandy -- great stuff!