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South Albertas : a Canadian regiment at war / Donald E. Graves ; forewords by George Kitching and Stanley A. Milner.

Title: South Albertas : a Canadian regiment at war / Donald E. Graves ; forewords by George Kitching and Stanley A. Milner.
Author: Graves, Donald E.
Publication: Toronto : Robin Brass Studio, 1998.

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408 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.

Summary

"The 29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (South Alberta Regiment) was formed in 1940 from five Alberta militia units, and most of its original members came from western Canada. Almost forgotten today, the SAR forged a splendid combat record and was the only Canadian unit to receive the Victoria Cross during the Normandy campaign of 1944 and the only Canadian armoured regiment to receive that medal during the Second World War ... Three chapters deal with the SAR's most famous action, the Battle of the Falaise Gap in August 1944, where Major David Currie earned the Victoria Cross in four days of vicious fighting in and around the little Norman village of St. Lambert-sur-Dives"--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-401) and indexes.

Contents

Medicine Hat, Alberta, May 1919 -- Canada : September 1939-August 1940 -- Canada : August 1940-December 1941 -- Canada and Britain : December 1941-February 1943 -- Britain : March-December 1943 -- Britain : January-July 1944 -- France : 25 July-5 August 1944 -- France : 6 August-15 August 1944 -- France : 16 August-18 August 1944 -- France : 19 August-20 August a.m., 1944 -- France : 20 August p.m. -- 22 August a.m., 1944 -- France and Belgium : 22 August-11 September 1944 -- Belgium and Holland : 12 September-22 October 1944 -- Belgium and Holland : 23 October-7 November 1944 -- Holland : 7 November 1944-24 January 1945 -- Holland : 25 January-21 February 1945 -- Holland and Germany : 21 February-2 March 1945 -- Germany and Holland : 2 March-31 March 1945 -- Germany : 1 April-4 May 1945 -- Germany, Holland and Canada : May 1945-January 1946 -- The Regiment in the postwar world : 1946-1995 -- Edmonton, Alberta : 21-24 September 1995.

ISBN

1896941060

LCCN

^^^98194221^

OCLC

38916936

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Harvard Library