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Description: Lieutenant Colonel Mike Vernon, CD, Commanding Officer of The Calgary Highlanders, ponders the monument to the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade erected at the site of the Walcheren Island Causeway, in memory of the sacrifice of the three Canadian regiments, as well as soldiers of the 52nd (Lowland) Division of the British Army who fought a pitched battle there beginning on Hallowe'en night 1944. The Calgary Highlanders sent a contingent to visit European battlefields in June 2010 to mark the centennial year of the regiment. In the background, the Regimental Pipes and Drums play at the site of monuments erected to the memory of Allied soldiers who fell fighting the Germans in the vicinity during the invasion of 1940.
Title: LColVernonatWalcheren10June2010
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Author: Michael Dorosh
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