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April 22, 2018

Beaumont Hamel: July 1, 1916

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Sapper A.J. Hendrickson, 31st Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers (R.C.E.), doing maintenance work on the Gales floating Bailey Bridge over the Ems River, Leer, Germany, 1 May 1945.

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Today in Military History

1916 An Order-in-Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War.

Today’s Honour Roll

P. H. Nataros, 1945
J. E. W. B. Bythell, 1950
M. C. Grant, 1945
A. Hendry, 1916
J. J. Collins, 1920
R. L. Jenings, 1919
J. S. Netzke, 1945
T. L. Bennett, 1942
F. Pamely, 1918
C. O'shea, 1917

These are 10 of the 127 Canadians who fell on this day in history.

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