Forward Observation Post of “B” Battery, 1st Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. Near Potenza, Italy, September 24th 1943.

(L-R): Gunner Chuck Drickerson (rangefinder), Gunner Jim Tulley (field telephone), Regimental Sergeant-Major G. Doug Gilpin (binoculars), Captain George E. Baxter (map board) and Gunner Hugh Graham (radio).


CANADIAN FORWARD OBSERVATION POST

The group photograph above is of men from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan who enlisted in the Canadian army on June 25, 1940, and served with the Regina Rifles Regiment between 1 September 1941 and 7 November 1945. 
The Metis men in the rear ranks are: L/Cpl. George Landry (2nd from left), Rfn. E.A. Nault (3rd from left), Rfn. William Nault (4th from left), Rfn. Frederick Gladue (6th from left) Rfn. P. Lariviere (7th from left) The Metis men in the front ranks are: Rfn. James O. Beaudry (1st on left), Rfn. John Baptiste Morin (3rd from left) Rfn. Joseph John Marion (4th from left), Rfn. Charles Louis Morasty (Merasty) (5th from left) L/Sgt. Conrad Rene Fleury (8th from left) Rfn. John Theodore Fiddler (3rd from right), Rfn. Angus Falcon (2nd from right).

CANADIAN INDIANS GO TO WAR

Infantrymen of The South Saskatchewan Regiment during mopping-up operations along the Oranje Canal, Netherlands, April 12th 1945.