Black Watch Monument Laren

Black Watch monument with the names of fallen soldiers.

In memory of the Canadian liberators of the Regiment The Black Watch (RHR) of Canada and the Régiment de Maisonneuve who fell during the liberation of Laren on April 5, 1945.

Regiment The Black Watch (RHR) of Canada:
Ralph Piercy (17 years old)
Chesley Edwin Mightingale (aged 30)
Lestie Williams (33 years old)
Gerald Paul MacKenzie (28 Years)
Howard Hector Muirhead (20 years old)
Michael Peter Brown (31 years old)
Frederick Taylor Forbes (age 31)
Marcel Martin (30 years old)
George Dale Sharpe (age 27)
Frederick Parkinson (36 years old)
Gordon Hume Hand (19 years old)
James George Todd (age 36)
Jean-Baptiste Turcotte (19 years old)

Regiment de Maisonneuve:
Jean Paul Barit (20 years old)
Gerard Russel Eddy Pilon (19 years old)
Wellie Bertand (28 years old)
Armand Gionet (19 years old)
Edgar Ross (21 years old)
Amede Letourneau (25 years old)
Roger Dufort (19 years old)

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Source

• Text: René Koopman + TracesOfWar
• Photos: René Koopman (1, 2, 3, 4), Ton Roeterdink (5)