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	2nd Canadian Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, elements of the division formed the basis of Z Force which was dispatched from Canada to Iceland and later rejoined the division in England.
		The divisional HQ and 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade arrived in the Clyde on 1 August while the main body of the division, including 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, arrived 4 September.
		2nd Division conducted a large-scale raid at Dieppe, France in August 1942 with the 4th and 6th Canadian Infantry Brigades, suffering extensive losses in the landing and ensuing withdrawal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2nd_Canadian_Infantry_Division (334 words)

	Legion Magazine : 2nd Division In September 1944
		The steady drain of casualties was affecting all nine infantry battalions and the division had not begun to tackle the main Dunkirk defences.
		The rest of the division made the trek to Antwerp on Sept. 18 and reports from that journey show that the ride across the newly liberated Belgian countryside was an exhilarating experience.
		The division was thus committed to some of the most difficult battles of the war at the village of Woensdrecht and on the narrow causeway connecting Walcheren Island and the peninsula of South Beveland.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/01-05.asp (2309 words)

	2nd Canadian Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, elements of the division formed the basis of which was dispatched from Canada to Iceland and later rejoined the division in England.
		The divisional HQ and arrived in the Clyde on 1 August while the main body of the division, including, arrived 4 September.
		2nd Division conducted a large-scale raid at Dieppe, France in August 1942 with the 4th and, suffering extensive losses in the landing and ensuing withdrawal.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Canadian_2nd_Infantry_Division (355 words)

	The War Begins - Veterans Affairs Canada
		Canadian coastal defences were quickly manned, militia regiments, mobilized even before the outbreak of war, intensified preparations, and volunteers flocked to the colours.
		In December units of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division sailed for Britain, the first of thousands that were to serve overseas during the war.
		The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division began arriving in England in the summer of 1940, and together with the 1st Division, the 1st Canadian Corps, under Lieut.-General A.G.L. McNaughton, was formed.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/canada2/warbeg (627 words)

	2nd Canadian Infantry Division -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The entire division was briefly slated for service in (An island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944) Iceland, but it was instead directed to the UK in the summer of 1940.
		The divisional HQ and 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade arrived in (Click link for more info and facts about the Clyde) the Clyde on 1 August while the main body of the division, including 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, arrived 4 September.
		The division saw heavy action in (A constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1579; half the country lies below sea level) the Netherlands in late 1944 and took part in the final offensives in 1945.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/2/2n/2nd_Canadian_Infantry_Division.htm (562 words)

	1st Canadian Infantry Division -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Canadian 1st Infantry Division was formed at the outbreak of (A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918) World War I in August 1914.
		The division crossed the Atlantic in two main convoys at the end of 1939, with additional troops reaching the UK at the beginning of February 1940.
		World War II All elements of the division were far from completely equipped: of the artillery and machine guns on hand, most were obsolete, and the troops lacked steel helmets.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/1s/1st_Canadian_Infantry_Division.htm (778 words)

	Canadians in Belgium
		On October 2 the 2nd Canadian Division began its advance north from the Antwerp area with a view to closing the exit from South Beveland and advancing along the South Beveland Isthmus.
		The 7th Infantry Brigade was assigned the initial assault across the Leopold while the 9th Brigade would mount an amphibious attack from the northern or coastal side of the Pocket.
		Thus the formidable Beveland Canal was outflanked and the 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade began a frontal attack in assault boats.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/1695/Text/canada.html (2957 words)

	OPERATION JUBILEE: The Raid on Dieppe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By May 20, the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division was stationed at the Isle of Wright.
		Canadians were to engage in the main frontal attack, as well as go in at gaps in the cliffs at Pourville, which was four kilometers to the west.
		The men of the 2nd Canadian Division were successful in their quest.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_tourism/84705 (1268 words)

	The Canadian Army Comes To Aldershot
		The 1st Canadian Infantry Division arrived in Aldershot in December 1939 and January 1940, moving into barracks left empty since the British 1st and 2nd Divisions departed for France the previous September.
		But by the time the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division started arriving in July-August 1940 the weather was beautiful, the administration in the barracks had improved and with the threat of imminent invasion a sense of real purpose was about.
		The attitude of the average Canadian soldier to the riots was one of disgust.
	www.hants.gov.uk /museum/aldershot/faq/canada.html (2332 words)

	Canadian Heroes - Private Henri Richard - Falaise Road
		The forces of the 2nd Division (Camerons) were assigned to move directly towards the town of Falaise.
		The 2nd Division handed over it's occupation of Falaise to the British on the 20th and joined in the pursuit of the retreating Germans on the 21st.
		The 14th Canadian Hussars (the recce regiment) had luckily crossed the river to the west and circled back to enclose Orbec from the North.
	canadianheroes.org /henri/henri3.htm (743 words)

	2nd Infantry Division - Korean War history of 1953
		The division's first anniversary in Korea, 31 July 1951, found the "Second to None" stabbing at enemy strong points well north of the 38th parallel while to the east in the vicinity of Kaesong, representatives of the United Nations and of the Communist forces were meeting to discuss the possibility of a truce.
		A company of the 1st ROK Infantry Division made a daring daylight raid on 2 January against the Chinese-held hill "Big Non." This raid was known as "Operation Killer" and was supported by elements of the 2d Division Artillery and the 72d Tank Battalion.
		From 23 March through the end of the month, the 2d Division Artillery supported the 7th Infantry Division in their fighting on "Old Baldy" and "Pork Chop." During this time the 15th Field Artillery, two batteries of the 12th and one battery from the 38th Field Artillery Battalion were employed to cover this sector.
	www.2id.org /volume3.htm (21301 words)

	Articles - Battle of the Scheldt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The First Army was comprised of the Canadian II Corps, which included the Polish 1st Armoured Division and the British 49th and 52nd Divisions and the British I Corps.
		The Canadian 3rd Infantry Division's 7th Brigade made the initial assault across the Leopold Canal, while the Canadian 9th Brigade mounted an amphibious attack from the northern or coastal side of the pocket.
		The Canadian 2nd Infantry Division attacked the causeway on October 31, 1944 and after a grim struggle, established a precarious foothold.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Battle_of_the_Scheldt (2521 words)

	The Hins World War II Collection - The Netherlands
		Although the First Canadian Army, as such, took no part in the crossings, the troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, under British command, participated in the crossing of the Rhine at Rees, and the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, still with the 6th Airborne Division, dropped successfully east of the river near Wesel.
		The 4th Division crossed the Ems River at Meppen and combined with the 1st Polish Armoured Division in thrusts on Emden, Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg.
		In the Western Netherlands the 1st Canadian Corps, comprising the 1st Canadian Infantry Division, and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division, under the command of Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes, was responsible for the liberation of the area north of the Maas River.
	home.hetnet.nl /~pa3geg/Netherlands.htm (1776 words)

	List of military divisions by number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of military divisions of all nationalities organised by number.
		Divisions may be infantry, airborne, cavalry, mechanized or armoured.
		German 1st Hermann Göring Parachute Panzer Division (earlier Hermann Göring Division, Hermann Göring Panzer Division)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_military_divisions_by_number (161 words)

	Legion Magazine : The Approach To Verrières Ridge - Part 25
		If the traveller be Canadian, he would do well to stay the wheels at this point and cast his mind back to the events of 1944; for this apparently insignificant eminence is Verrières Ridge.
		The division had been held in reserve during the first phase of Operation Goodwood, but it had orders to be ready to exploit southwards after 3rd.
		The Canadians held a line that stretched along the road from Saint-André-sur-Orne to the Caen-Falaise highway, but they were still on the lower slope and Verrières Ridge loomed ahead.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/99-03.asp (2187 words)

	Canadian Army in the UK
		1st Canadian Infantry Division, embarked for the United Kingdom on 17 December 1939 and arrived at Greenock, Scotland on 25 December.
		This division had been formed from 4th Canadian Infantry Division in the Maritimes on 26 January 1942 and consisted of 3rd and 4th Canadian Armoured Brigades and 4th Canadian Support Group on arrival in the United Kingdom in August and September 1942.
		The 1st Canadian Army was raised in England on 1 April 1942 and by September 1942 most of its formations had arrived in the United Kingdom.
	users.adelphia.net /~dryan67/orders/canadauk.html (1391 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - Royal Canadian Engineers
		Imagine planning an attack as the commander of an infantry division who must assign objectives on the battlefield to his brigade commanders and coordinate support from artillery and the air force, as well as arrange for the provision of supplies of food, fuel, and ammunition from Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (RCASC) units.
		In the mobile warfare conducted by the Canadian Army in Europe from 1943-45, their role required the engineers to work alongside other combat troops at the front, under fire, to open routes for the tanks and infantry to continue their assaults.
		One of the more significant operations was the Dieppe raid on 19 August 1942, although the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division's engineers were largely unable to carry out their planned program of demolitions of enemy beach defences and inland installations.
	www.junobeach.org /e/4/can-tac-rce-e.htm (1178 words)

	1st Hussars
		The regiment also formed B squadron of the Canadian Light Horse cavalry regiment, and fought in both the mounted and un-mounted roles until the end of the war.
		In support of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, it captured the channel port of Calais, silencing the German cross channel guns.
		During the winter of 44-45, the regiment performed defensive duties with 2nd Canadian Infantry Division and 49th British (West Riding) Division along the Maas river in central Holland.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Barracks/4674/1Hus.html (664 words)

	Stan Scislowski
		If the traveller be Canadian, he would do well to stay the wheels at this point and cast his mind back to the event of 1944; for this apparently insignificant eminence is the Verrieres Ridge.
		Although the attack on the ridge had gone disastrously for the 2nd Infantry Division, when placed within the frame of the so-called 'bigger picture', it did achieve a measure of success.
		Although grave mistakes in the upper echelons of command had undoubtedly been made, the individual Canadian infantry-man, the dead, the wounded, and those who by the good fortunes of war had came through unscathed and survived the war, helped make the breakthrough possible.
	www.normandy1944.info /veterans/stan_scislowski.html (1468 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War - Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942 - Operations
		Canadian soldiers taken prisoner by the Germans at Dieppe.
		The main Canadian landing on the Dieppe beach and flanking attacks at Puys and Pourville failed to reach any of their objectives.
		The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, largely made up of soldiers from the Hamilton area, had taken 582 soldiers into the thick of the fighting.
	www.warmuseum.ca /cwm/newspapers/operations/dieppe_e.html (338 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War - The Liberation of the Netherlands, 1944-1945 - Operations
		Division, landing near the Rhine bridge at Arnhem, was all but destroyed by a strong German force.
		At this time Antwerp, Belgium, was in Allied hands, but it could not be used as a port to resupply the advancing armies because the Germans held the approaches to the port on both banks of the lower River Scheldt.
		After an uncomfortable winter spent patrolling through the wet Dutch countryside, the Canadians got the help of their countrymen from Italy (see the Sicilian and Italian Campaigns), who advanced quickly north from the Rhine through the eastern Netherlands to the North Sea.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/newspapers/operations/netherlands_e.html (369 words)

	Civilization.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Five thousand troops of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, along with a thousand British troops, many of them commandos, attacked the French port of Dieppe on the English Channel Coast in August 1942.
		1942 The Canadian raid on the French coastal town of Dieppe was a catastrophe.
		Some of the most popular Canadian paintings of the Second World War are Comfort's work.
	search.civilization.ca /dwesearch.asp?lang=en&search=yes&query=dieppe (809 words)

	2nd Division - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
		This page was last modified 19:52, 8 Jun 2005.
		The article about 2nd Division contains information related to 2nd Division, Infantry, Airborne, Cavalry and Armour.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/2nd_Division (92 words)

	14th Hussars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was converted to armour and redesignated 8th Reconnaissance Battalion (14th Canadian Hussars) on 11 February 1941.
		It was formed from personnel from 2nd Canadian Infantry Division while in England, in addition to reinforcements from Canada.
		It landed in Normandy for the campaign in North-West Europe as the reconnaissance regiment of 2nd Canadian Infantry Division.
	www.rcaca.org /r-14H.htm (154 words)

	Régiment du sud de la Saskatchewan - Liens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British Columbia Regiment - 28th Canadian Armoured Regiment, 4th Brigade, 4th Canadian Armoured Division.
		The Fort Garry Horse - 10th Armoured Regiment of the 2nd Armoured Brigade
		Royal Hamilton Light Infantry - The "Rileys" light infantry regiment of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
	cap.estevan.sk.ca /ssr/frlinks.html (167 words)

	Kangaroo Links
		the reconnaissance regiment for the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division (14th Canadian Hussars).
		the RHLI, otherwise known as the "Rileys", are a distinguished infantry regiment whose veterans are well-known to 1CACR...
		Churchill, the FGH was the 10th Armoured Regiment of the 2nd Armoured Brigade.
	www.1cacr.org /links.html (394 words)

	Canadians Shot at Dawn
		Perhaps it is time for those men who volunteered to fight for their "King and Country" and their families to find a true sense of closure through a Royal pardon.
		November 2000 - The Canadian Government's Minister for Veteran Affairs, Ron Duhamel is seeking posthumous pardons for the 23 Canadian soldiers who were shot by firing squad during World War One.
		On December 11, 2001, Veteran Affairs Minister, Ron Duhamel rose in the House of Commons and with sincerity and passion, read the names of those 23 Canadians into the Parliamentary record and announced their names will be written into the Book of Remembrance in Parliament Hill's Book of Remembrance.
	home.cogeco.ca /~cdnsad (1294 words)

	The Saskatchewan Dragoons
		The name "16th Mounted Rifles" was a misnomer in that it was intended for the unit to be a cavalry regiment, but "mounted rifles" denotes mounted infantry.
		The regiment was redesignated the 14th Canadian Light Horse on March 15, 1920, and the 14th Canadian Hussars on August 1st, 1940.
		It was converted to armour and redesignated the 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Battalion (14th Canadian Hussars) on 1 April 1941, and as the 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) on 8 June 1942.
	www.saskd.ca /27Light.htm (716 words)

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