After the Normandy Campaign, the First Canadian Army was given the task of clearing the coastal areas in the North of France; 1944.

Beach obstacles

Canadian soldiers - privates Gaston Daisneault and Robert Bonneu - with a captured German soldier from the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend", taken prisoner in the Caen, France area; June 1944.


Prisoner of the Canadians

Soldiers of the 4th Canadian Armored Division (specifically the South Alberta Regiment and Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada) are engaged in combat in the closing stages of the Battle of Normandy, around the French town of Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive, about 25 miles south-east from Caen.