Date of birth:

September 1st, 1915 (Saskatoon/Saskatchewan, Canada)

Date of death:

February 19th, 1945 (Netherlands)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XXI. Row: A. Grave: 6.

Service number:

L/104948

Nationality:

Canadian

Trooper
Fort Garry Horse, R.C.A.C.
10th Armd. Regt.

During the night of 18 to 19 February there was a lot of rain, which had worsened the conditions. They encountered little resistance in the beginning, but they suffered a lot from the muddy surface that caused the tanks and Kangaroos to get stuck, many tanks also jammed on landmines. And it soon became clear that the Germans had built an anti-tank screen including a pile of 88mm Flak near Brunshof-Göttern, a row of farms among the trees, along the Goch to Kalkar road. The anti-tank screen was formed by fresh troops from the 12th Parra Reconnaissance Regiment. And behind the anti-tank screen was the Panzer-Lehr-Division, an elite armoured division of the Wehrmacht. This division was not known to be located in this area. On the left side of the infantry advance, three of the Kangaroos crew got killed and of the tank crew six got killed. In total there were eleven victims in this area among the tank crew in this two day battle. Trooper Lawrence Reginald Bell was seriously injured here and died of his injuries.

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