An unidentified infantryman of The Calgary Highlanders uses a pair of Mk.II Standard No.2 binoculars to observe enemy movements during a scouting, stalking and sniping training course, Kapellen, Belgium, 6 October 1944.
1917 At Passchendaele, Major George Pearkes of the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles captured an enemy position, which enabled him to continue to advance toward his objective, and then to hold it with a small number of men, despite a wound in the thigh. For his actions Major Pearkes earned the Victoria Cross (October 30-31).
