Lance-Corporal J.A. Thrasher of The Westminster Regiment (Motor), who holds the PIAT anti-tank weapon with which he disabled the German self-propelled 88mm. gun on which he is sitting, near Pontecorvo, Italy, 26 May 1944.
1916 The 163rd Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, sails for Britain after serving in Bermuda on garrison duty for the past six months.