I've been at the cemetry in Holten this weekend. It is still to diffucult to say in words what your soldiers have done for us. With tears in my eyes, i saw their graves. May we remeber them for ever.

with regards,

Roland

I came here to the site again today, on the anniversary of D-Day, what an endeavour that was, although Loren and Henri were still both in Canada on June 6th 1944. They too were soon in the thick of it and in time gave thier lives.

Thanks for this site Mark, We will Remember them.

Roger

Any kind of information,documentation,photographs would be most welcome

Great site...Was researching my fathers exploits during his Tour of Europe as a Cameron Highlander and my Father in-law who was a tanker with the Sherbrooke Fusiliers. How strange that my wife and I met with fathers who had served in the same division.

Outstanding work
Thank you kindly
Dave Colvin

Good Morning all: My father served with the 4th Royal Canadian Artillery , 100th battery. He was a gunner sargent in charge of a Bofors gun crew. He initally was based in Colchester for training. Any info would be wonderful as I seem to be going around in circles!!

Good job with the site, a fine memorial to all of the young people who died to give my generation freedom.

My Uncle is also buried in Holten. A rear gunner on Lancaster’s he was killed on the last mission of his tour with number IV squadron RAF Sept. 23/24th 1944. His pervious mission had been operation Parvane the attack on the Tirpitz. The surviving crew member was hidden by a Dutch family and liberated by the Canadian troops. My father who also served in the RAF, was Joes twin brother and was always comforted by the gratitude of the Dutch people. If anyone has any knowledge of where my uncle Leslie Joesph Hambly is buried in Holten or knows anything about the crash of his aircraft I would be pleased to hear from them.

Thank you,

Gary Hambly

Good Job on the site

First of all our compliments for this website we have now seen so many times over the past years.
We too visit schoolchildren and teach them about what the Canadians did in Europe.
Please feel free to visit our site as well and if you have anything from WWII that may be of help for our projects, please send them to us.
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work.

I never heared of this web site. its very useful for kids to come to for projects. In class i am doing a project on who we belive to be our heroes and i have chosen laura secord and im not to sure who the other 2 people should be. THANKS!

Correction to previous posting. It was 18 months from the time my grandfather left for Teraace Bc to his return from Kaiska Dec 22, 1943. Was only on Kiska for 4 mths

Thank for your excellent site. My grandfather, Thomas Pow Watson, was a member of the Winnipeg Grenadiers and stationed on Kiska for 18 months. Finding information on this has been challenging.
However, for anyone interested in finding out about the Alaska campaign there is a new book, Alaska at War, 1941 – 1945 by Fern Chandonnet, published by The University of Alaska Press, 2007. The book is excellent. It is a collection of articles that cover the politics behind and the forming of a joint US Canadian force, the Japanese point of view and their evacuation, the retaking of Attu and Kiska, underwater archaeology (a Japanese mini-sub in Kiska harbor) and a variety of other topics. Much of the book is available, as a book preview, on-line. Searching the title should give you a link to it. I do, however, recommend getting the book. My local library was able to bring one in for me on inter-library loan.

An interesting fact is that when the Canadians first started to arrive at Adak they had problems with US customs. The US Customs Department wanted to charge the Canadians duty on their supplies and equipment. US Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, solved the problem up designating the Canadian troops as “distinguished foreign visitors” giving the duty free status.

My uncle, Harry Ian MacPherson served in the Lincs during WWII. He was killed on 25 January 1945. Does anyone have any information about him? Thanks.

ARTHUR WINTERS, was a member of 7th Field Company, RCE and was KIA in Lochtenberg, Belgium on October 1, 1944. Now the village of my hometown Lochtenberg (part of village Brecht in Belgium) wants to call a street to this soldier! I search for relatives of this soldier to inform them about this ceremony. Everyone who can help are welcome because I wish to contact them asap. Thanks Wally

2ND INFANTRY DIVISION: I'm doing research for the participance of this division during the liberation of Belgium, and more in detail about the Battle of the Scheldt. It is therefore That I search information about this Division and all of its units. The most I want to know about regements as The Calgary Highlanders, Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, THe South Saskatchewan Regiment, The Black Watch of Canada, Le Regiment de Maisonneuve, the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, The Fort Garry Horse Regiment, THe 8Th RECCE and Toronto Scottish during the period of September 21st and October 8th. I can also help by reconstructing memories for these period. Thanks Wally

I purchased a WW11 ammo box with the name Major Henry W.A. Darrell No 35 written on the outside. Does anyone know more about this man?

I was a baby in Assen, Netherlands when the Canadian Army liberated us. We housed Canadian soldiers until they returned. We always wondered what happened to them. My parents wrote them a few times, but over time, and with immigration to US, contact was lost. Believe me, the Dutch have great appreciation for the Canadian Army and other allied units attached.

I am looking for information on my fathers unit. He was with the 4 Princess Louise Dragoon Guards (PLDG) He fought in North Africa and Italy during World War II. He was wounded in Italy, his name was Lloyd Slocum. I would appreciate any information about this unit. Thanks

Mark,

Thanks again for this site, I was looking at my binder of family history documents today and I noticed that it's been over 10 years since you started your work on this site (and almost 20 years since I obtained the war service records for our uncles Loren and Henri.)And if you consider how many people that you have touched with this site I know our uncles would be proud.

Roger

Thank you for this site.i would just like to say,My great grandfather Sgt.Lionel Stewart took hold of Two Platoons after both officers died and even through heavy mortar fire held the joined platoons firm and drove off the enemies.I know i'm just some stupid kid in your eyes but when i read an article of your site i saw my Great Grandfather in my mind and please contact me back on your thoughts on what i just wrote and if you need i can e-mail you a copy of the origional newspaper clipping about My Great Grandfathers ''Magnificent Examples''

Hello,

I enjoyed your website and am looking for more information on my Grandfather. He graduated from the 4th Canadian Armoured divison-27 April 1945.

Thank you from myself and other Canadians for the courage that you have shown. Tammy Ducklow

As we commemorate another Remembrance Day here in Canada, let us never forget those that did not get a chance to live their lives to the fullest. They gave their lives so that we could enjoy so much more in our lives. We should never forget them.

They are all Canadian heroes to me.

Mark Nelson
Canadian Heroes Webmaster

Thax this helped a lot for my history project

love this site

What a touching and lasting tribute to your family hero's. I have visited this site many times, and consider it one of best sites on the web. Since my first visit here, I have invested thousands of hours in research to reconstruct the war records of my family as well. You were such an encouragement.

My Uncle Lance Corporal Norman Sullivan was a tank commander with the Governor General Foot Guards (GGFG), 21st armoured division in the 4th brigade. His tank was the last tank shelled with the crew instantly killed, in Germany on April 28th in the GGFG. They supported the Linc's throughout the war. Having read both the GGFG and the Lincoln & Welland Regimental History books, after my interest being so peeked by your stories, the books gave me such a wealth of information. Thanks again for this wonderful site.

i really in joy reading about candian heros. i luv dis site

thankyou for your suggestion on reading the book" because we are canadians. it not only gave me an insight to the exploits of the lincoln and welland reg but the plight of the average cnd soldier . A must read for every canadian. after reading it you'll never look at remeberance day the same way. you'll gain even more respect than you already have. thankyou again

About 350 pictures taken on may 4th 2008 in Holten.
To see on www.stolmeijer.eu

We remember them

gr.

Willem Stolmeijer

I am the grandson of william h. watt who served in the lincoln and welland regiment from 1939 to 1945. you have helped me understand where he was and when. THANK YOU

does anyone know where i could start with trying to find my sisters dad who was a canadian soldier she was born 1942 our mum lived in copthorne, nr crawley west sussex then, were there any canadian bases near there, any other thoughts from people would be welcomed
my mothers name was dorothy aka dolly, dot allen she would have been 19 years old at the time.
thanks

looking for family that was inthe war and buried in wpg mb,at brookside cemetery