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April 29, 2018

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Private Everett Dewar, Saskatoon Light Infantry (M.G.) attached to the West Nova Scotia Regiment, manning an Oerlikon 20mm. anti-aircraft gun, Spinazzola, Italy, 1 October 1943.

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Today in Military History

1941 HMCS Wasaga is commissioned, becoming the first Canadian-built Bangor-class minesweeper.

Today’s Honour Roll

J. McIntyre, 1920
G. Matthews, 1915
G. E. Postlethwaite, 1942
J. M. Macarthur, 1917
W. J. Taylor, 1917
G. L. Morton, 1917
T. Negrich, 1944
C. I. Carthew, 1919
B. P. Brownell, 1917
J. J. Dearden, 1916

These are 10 of the 161 Canadians who fell on this day in history.

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