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		<title>WAR BLANKET RETURNED TO HOME SOIL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again, a request will come to The War Amps office that presents a bit of a challenge.  In 2008, we got just such a request from Mr. Ken Paynter, a veteran of the Second World War. 
 
He contacted us in the hope that we could help him reunite an American Second World War [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=234</link>
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		<title>A Hero of Dieppe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week marks the 68th anniversary of the raid on Dieppe, the French seaside port across the channel from England.
 
The raid on Dieppe has been the subject of many books and films. Most of them have labeled the assault, carried out primarily by the Canadian 2nd Division, as a monumental failure. In the minds of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=233</link>
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		<title>A Nursing Sister’s Story – Kay Christie</title>
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This Sunday, August 15th, marks the 65th anniversary of Victory in Japan (VJ) Day.
 
More than 10,000 Canadians served in Hong Kong, Burma and other Far East theatres, which proved to be the longest campaign of the Second World War. Many Canadians were taken as prisoners of war in the Far East and spent several horrific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=232</link>
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		<title>A Prince of a Soldier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 27, 1953, exactly 57 years ago this week, the armistice agreement that ended the three-year long Korean War was signed by both sides.  It was the first time in history that an international organization, like the UN, had intervened with a multinational force to stop a war. 
 
Casualties from this conflict were great, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=231</link>
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		<title>A Victoria Cross Forfeited in Disgrace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please find herewith a further entry in my ongoing series on the Victoria Cross.  This one comes from the files of Stu Christie, Merchant Navy Veteran from World War II and Curator of The War Amps Museum:
 
Edward St. John Daniel, VC, won the Victoria Cross three times and forfeited it in disgrace.
 
He joined the British [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=230</link>
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		<title>July 1st: A Day to Celebrate and Mourn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment has always been of tremendous interest to me, arising out of my long friendship with George Chalker, a war amputee from St. John’s, who fought and was twice wounded with this famous World War I military Force.
 
As a lad raised in the west during the Depression, I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superb Fighting Men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, June 21st, is National Aboriginal Day.  
 


In honour of Aboriginal soldiers who have served or continue to serve their country, the National Aboriginal Veterans Association is holding a Ceremony of Remembrance and Wreath Laying today at the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in downtown Ottawa. 
 

It seems a suitable day to feature an excerpt from my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=228</link>
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		<title>Two Titans of D-Day – Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
In the last entry, I provided a profile of Eisenhower from the book Great Land Battles of World War II, by Ian Hogg.  In this entry, I continue with a profile on Montgomery.
 

Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (1887 – 1976)
 
Opinionated, self-assured, a rigid disciplinarian, a non-smoker and teetotaler, with a sense of the theatrical, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=227</link>
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		<title>Two Titans of D-Day – Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week marked the 66th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.  In recognition of this landmark battle, I would like to turn to a book that I spoke of in an earlier entry.
 

Great Land Battles of World War II, by Ian Hogg, provides us with a history of these two titans of D-Day:

 


General Dwight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=226</link>
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		<title>The Bantams</title>
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In this entry, I wish to tell about an interesting book that chronicles the story of an extraordinary group of World War I soldiers who were originally rejected for military service because of their height. 
 
More information on this book, The Bantams: The Untold Story of World War I, written by military historian Sidney Allinson, follows:
 
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cliffchadderton.ca/blog/?p=225</link>
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