Reg Ford in uniform. On the back of the photo it reads: Killed in Italy, 1944.

Reg Ford killed in action

Duncan Munro sitting on a shell crate in front of a tank. He was a gunner with the 6th Armoured Division in France in 1943. He borrowed Ted William's Agfa camera and returned it with this and the previous (P986.6.1) photo.

Mr. Munro

Canada commits to the war effort: Men of the First Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force wait to disembark at a British port in February 1940. Originally, Canada supported appeasement of the Nazi regime. However, soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the Canadian Parliament approved entry into the war. Canada began sending troops to Britain in December 1939, although those men did not see action for several years. Starting with a small military, Canada raised substantial armed forces and had one of the world's largest militaries by war's end. 
