Date of birth:

January 25th, 1919 (Star/Alberta, Canada)

Date of death:

April 17th, 1945 (Netherlands)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XIV. Row: H. Grave: 1.

Service number:

M/105941

Nationality:

Canadian

Trooper
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
2nd Armd. Regt.

According to the war diary for the Lord Strathcona’s Horse regiment, he was dangerously wounded in action by Schmeiser machine gun fire during an unsuccessful outflanking attempt. Unfortunately he died from the wounds on the next day, April 17, 1945, at the age of 26.
Operation Dutch Cleanser was the codename for the 5th Canadian Tank Division as it advanced rapidly through Otterlo, Barneveld and Putten. The Canadian and British tanks had set up a headquarters in Otterlo.
But on the night of April 16 and into April 17, a formation of German troops, estimated at 1,000 men, launched a ferocious attack on the headquarters. In this fierce battle, the Lord Strathcona's Horse Regiment had losses of 14 killed or missing and 28 wounded or died of wounds.

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