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    TO CANADA WITH LOVE

    Jun 01, 2021 4 minutes

    Close to half a million members of the Canadian armed forces served in Britain from 1939 until 1946. While Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) personnel played a prominent role in the Battle of Britain and other air operations, the much larger number of Canadian Army personnel stationed in southern England had time for fraternisation as they awaited action in the Dieppe Raid in August 1942, the Italian Campaign and D-Day.

    There was initial suspicion of the ‘colonials’. Joyce Snow, a telephonist in Headley, Hampshire, said of the first Canadian soldiers she met that “they were all bad ones they had taken from prison – I got into contact with them quite a bit and they were really horrible”.

    Tom Webb of Fort Garry

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