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12 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, December 16, 1964 addition t Gen. McNaughton and Maj. Simonds, there were CANUCKS OVERSEAS (Continued from Page 1 Reina del Pacifico, and two Po- lish, the Chrobry and the Bat- ory. : "Both contingents were escorted out of Halifax by four Canadian destroyers, the Ot- tawa, Fraser, Restigouche and St. Laurent. 'The young Canadians on their "great crusade"--most of them nearing their 50s now -- ex- pected to be in the front line in France by the spring of 1940. But France fell to the Germans in June. SAW ACTION IN '43 "The division in fact first en- gaged the enemy in Sicily in 1943, just three years and seven months after its first flight sailed from Halifax Dec. 10. Its ist Brigade started to. France in June, 1940--some of it got an there--but was ordered back as - France surrendered and the Germans occupied most of Western Europe. In 1941, a small group went to Spitsber- GILLIS PURCELL «+. With First Division Brig. George Pearkes, VC, who held the command from July, 1940, until September, 1942, when he returned to Canada to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command; Maj. Chris Vokes, commander for a year of the Italian campaign from October, 1943; and Maj. Harry Foster, who took over in Italy in November, 1944, and led the division in France and western Holland until the end of the war. Gen. Pearkes now is lieu- tenant-governor of British Co- ' lumbia and Gen. Vokes is re- tired at Oakville, Ont. Gen. Foster died in Halifax last Aug. 6, Already in England on ex- change to the British war office 'was Maj. H. L. N. Salmon who was to command the division from September, 1942, until his death in an air crash in-south- ern England in April, 1943, while en route to the Mediter- ranean for the Sicily invasion. Besides Brig. Pearkes, the of- ficers who took the division's three infantry brigades over- seas were Brig. Armand A. Smith, invalided home in. late crowd waved 'welcome to what they thought were British troops on Christmas leave from | ¢ France. Then, as the ships ap-|/ proached, ihe first iden- tification came. "C-A-N-A-D-a," "Canada!" The ist Canadian Division, W.|soon to be known throughout southern England by its rec- tangular red shoulder-patches,| : was arriving. Welcoming officials came alongside in motorboats and climbed a rope, ladder to the Aquitania's deck to be greeted warmly by Gen. McNaughton. From Canada House in Lon- don came the Canadian high commissioner, Vincent Massey, later to be Canada's first Cana- dian Governor-General, and the counsellor, Mike Pearson, now Canada's prime minister, Brig. H. D, G. Crerar, later com- mander of the Canadian Army in the field, came from Cana- dian military headquarters which he had set up in London six weeks before with a small], Crerar | ; advance group. Geh, now is retired in Ottawa. First of the troops to land was Sgt. Bernard Gregson of Soldiers'|' voices in cadence spelled out] _ then shouted = EATON' CANADA'S CHRISTMAS STORE A One-stop gift-shopping for everyone on your list ! A 80 Departments to serve you A Budget-charge Terms available with " No Down Payment A Open Until 9 P.M. Every > | * Shopping Night Until Christmas Lif gen, an Arctic archipelago be- tween Greenland and Norway, ta disable abandoned coal mines. Just before the first flight's Sunday noon departure the new headquarters flag was hoisted tothe masthead of the Aqui- tania, which carried Maj.-Gen.| A: G. L. McNaughton, the divi- sional commander, and _ his headquarters staff. The flag had the Union Jack in the cor- The troops' gay attitude re-[1940 after being seriously in- flected none of the grim aspects |jured 'in an-auto accident, and of the trip. Life-jackets--called/Brig. C. B. Price, named over- waterwings -- were worn day|seas commissioner of the Ca-| and night. Gas masks were at/nadian Red Cross in 1942 after the alert on every lifeboat drill:|commanding the 3rd Canadian Troops were barred from the|Division for 18 months. Gen. decks between sundown and|Price lives at Knowlton, Que., dawn. Not a light shone through|and Brig. Smith at Winona, | portholes or windows as_ the|Ont. | grey ships knifed through the! fager young troops crowded| night. ithe decks at dawn Sunday as'| All but one of the division's|the Clydeside hills of Scotland) the Carleton and Yorks, now 50 and with the Canadian customs office in St. Stephen, N.B. ner of a white field with three | six wartime commanders were|showed dimly through fog. At) red. maple leaves and three/on the December voyage. In|Gourock, a small dockside, gold fleurs-de-lis, the latter on| a circular blue ground. » Within seven months, Lt.-Gen. McNaughton was commander af the two-division Anglo-Cana- dian corps that became the Ist Canadian Corps the following December. In April, 1942, he be- came the commander of the ist Canadian Army' which eventu- ally reached a peak strength of five divisions. He returned to Canada at the end of 1945 and now is retired at Ottawa. LIVED IN LUXURY Bronzed and husky, the troops revelled in the thrills and luxury of their voyage. They were goggle-eyed at the majestic size of the transports, breathless at the cold grey com- y petence of the naval escort. The Atlantic, which few of them = +had seen before, was as smooth = almost as a milipond. The ships' wireless was silent 7] but news broadcasts were cop- fed. Word raced around the decks when three British light cruisers chased the Graf Spee into Montevideo, where she was scuttled. The lads chuckled: "Bring on the Deutschland!" The Deutschland, nearly lasting out the war, was sunk in April, 1945, in an Allied air raid on Swinemunde, German Baltic of Jewellery BASSETT'S ».. 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