Date of birth:

January 10th, 1911 (Bridgewater/Massachusetts, USA)

Date of death:

March 8th, 1945 (Xanten/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: III. Row: H. Grave: 16.

Nationality:

Canadian

Major
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.

On Thursday, March 8, 1945, the Canadian artillery put down a very effective barrage that lasted sixteen minutes and preceded the infantry attack on Xanten. The A and D Companies attacked, followed ten minutes later by the B and C Companies that formed the second wave. The Germans used an effective form of tactics in their defense of this area by allowing the two leading companies to pass through their positions and then opening fire on them from behind with MG42 machine guns and field guns. This considerably slowed down the attack and caused many casualties on the Canadian side.
One of these was Roger Joseph Leon Carroll who died from shrapnel at the age of 34, two days after he had come back from sick leave.

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