Soldiers and medics of The Loyal Edmonton Regiment of Canada, digging out the injured Lance-Corporal Roy Boyd in Ortona, Italy.

Rescue of an injured soldier

Canadian soldiers of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders march across a Bailey bridge over the Odon river.
   The Odon is a river in the Calvados department, in Normandy, northwestern France.  It is 47 km long and is a left tributary of the Orne river.    
 


No river too wide to cross

Infantrymen of Support Company, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, supported by a Sherman tank of The Fort Garry Horse, advancing south of Hatten, a town west of Bremen, north-west Germany; April 22, 1945.