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I believe the hat badge is the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, a 3rd Division Battaion

Certainly more digging to be done. The Buron location and his account do make you think of the advance to Carpiquet and the 12 SS counter attack, but NNSH and 8 Bde were in reserve that day. The NNSH did have a messy fight to clear the woods south of Tailleville and make an attempt at the radar station at Douvres.

klambie wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 05, 2020 11:24 pm

Certainly more digging to be done. The Buron location and his account do make you think of the advance to Carpiquet and the 12 SS counter attack, but NNSH and 8 Bde were in reserve that day. The NNSH did have a messy fight to clear the woods south of Tailleville and make an attempt at the radar station at Douvres.

Actually the North Nova Scotia Highlanders were in the middle of the fight for Buron and further that day Kevin. The newspaper article indicate said he was wounded on the second day of the invasion, which would have been the 7th June, and the NNSH took a lot of casualties that day

Of course that is assuming that Pte Romeo Fleury was part of the Regiment that day?? The photo shows him holding a NNSH Glenngary with a NNSH hat badge on it......but that photo “may” have been taken later......I’m still trying to find his name on any unit orders etc

War Diaries link

http://lmharchive.ca/wp-content/uploads ... anders.pdf

You are correct. Despite the right initial idea about Authie and Buron, I then started talking about the North Shores rather than the North Novas.

Wow! Thanks for this material and the niece.


Is there some way to forward all these replies to my team? Thanks.

Rmarie699 wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:03 pm

Wow! Thanks for this material and the niece.


Is there some way to forward all these replies to my team? Thanks.

Well, I might suggest your team go on line to this site. They can see everything that we have posted. As you know, access to the website is FREE, and all our help is FREE.....so they should have any problem seeing this and copying what they would like

Also, you could send them links to the pages and they can then see everything that has been posted.

Cheers, and let us know if you have more questions or need more answers

Rmarie699 wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:03 pm

Wow! Thanks for this material and the niece.


Is there some way to forward all these replies to my team? Thanks.

I have sent you a private message with Romeo's Grandniece's contact information (with her permission), and as Temujin mentioned you can simply send your team the link to this thread from the address bar and they will be able to view all the information posted. They would need to join the site, as you have, in order to post a reply.

WARTIMES.ca is a free site and forum in all regards, though patrons can show support through donations. Individual researchers may charge for their private services and use our forums and private message platform as a method of communication, in which case that would be clear in advance of any specific research task.

Romeo Fleury is also my great-uncle. He served in WW2 alongside my grandfather, Adelard Fleury.

I would be very interested in this belt, if it is available. Please contact me at kmv612@gmail.com

Thank you,

Kevin Venerus

Romeo was my grandfather, my mom was his daughter. I'd like to have that if possible?. bunkview13@hotmail.com

Hey thanks to everyone digging this up... literally!

I am parsing through all of the service history as well as sending out an RFI to DoD Canada. I am crossing my fingers for a more detailed response as to who his squad mates were and if any of them were capture that day of June 7th by the Hitlerjugend.

Does anyone have a source for the Germans battle summary ?

PS I, along with Darren who posted above me are direct descendants of Romeo via his two children Michael and Cheryl respectively.

Thanks again and great work to everyone!