Date of birth:

May 27th, 1925 (Swift Current/Saskatchewan, Canada)

Date of death:

February 27th, 1945 (Uedem/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: VII. Row: D. Grave: 11.

Service number:

K/1947

Nationality:

Canadian

Lance Corporal
Calgary Highlanders, R.C.I.C.

The Hochwald forest, a dense forest, with visibility in places down to just a a few meters, increasing the risk of an ambush. This was the start of Operation Blockbuster. The goal of the Calgary Highlanders was to occupy the west side of the forest’s northern edge.
The regiment starts out a little past midnight, on February 27th. The sky was overcast, offering no moonlight to help guide them. The farms they passed along the route, all seemed deserted.
Not until dawn did they encounter German resistance; still, they managed to reach their goal, struggling through mud and snow. Finally, at half past ten in the evening they were given a much-welcomed hot meal. That day in the Hochwald saw 200 German soldiers captured and twelve Calgary Highlanders killed in combat. One of them was Gordon Eugene Andrew, just nineteen years old.

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