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17 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 79.
18 G.W.L. Nicholson, The Gunners of Canada, vol. 2 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972), 143.
19 History of the 3rd Canadian Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery—September, 1939 to July, 1945 (n.p., 1945), Canadian War Museum, 33.
20 Ibid.
21 1st Canadian Field Company, RCE War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, 23-N-3.
22 Historical Officer, “Report No. 127,” 13.
23 Ibid., 15.
24 Ibid., 14.
25 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 79.
26 Historical Officer “Report No. 127,” 14-15.
27 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
28 Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, 8.
29 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada War Diary, July 1943, n.p.
30 R.H. Roy, The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1919-1965 (Vancouver: Evergreen Press, 1969), 164.
31 Historical Officer, “Report No. 127,” 15-16.
32 Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry War Diary, July 1943, 8.
33 Nicholson, Gunners of Canada, 145.
34 History of the 3rd Canadian Field Regiment, 33-34.
35 Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry War Diary, 8.
36 G.R. Stevens, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, 1919-1957, vol. 3 (Griesbach, AB: Historical Committee of the Regiment, n.d.), 76.
37 Kim Beattie, Dileas: History of the 48th Highlanders of Canada: 1929-1956 (Toronto: 48th Highlanders of Canada, 1957), 228-29.
38 48th Highlanders of Canada War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
39 Beattie, 229.
40 “Personal Account by Lt.-Col. The Lord Tweedsmuir of the Sicilian Campaign,” 145.241011(D31), Directorate of Heritage and History, Department of National Defence, 2.
41 Strome Galloway, Bravely Into Battle: The Autobiography of a Canadian Soldier in World War II (Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1988), 34.
42 “The Historical Account of the Fighting Operations of the 12th Canadian Tank Regiment (Three Rivers Regiment of Quebec) from the Time of Their Landing in Sicily Up to and Including Their Last Action Fought West of Adrano on August the 5th, 1943,” RG24, vol. 10990, Library and Archives Canada, 1.
43 48th Highlanders of Canada War Diary, n.p.
44 “Account by Lieutenant-Colonel I.S. Johnston, Officer Commanding 48 Highlanders Given on 14 August 1943 at the Battalion Rest Area near Scordia,” RG24, vol. 10880, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
45 Galloway, Bravely Into Battle, 36-37.
46 Sheridan Atkinson and Harold Ghent, “The ‘Liberation’ of Modica, Sicily,” unpublished manuscript in possession of author, 1-3.
9 : ON SHANK’S MARE
1 G.W.L. Nicholson, The Canadians in Italy, 1939-1945, vol. 2 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1956), 81.
2 G.R. Stevens, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, 1919-1957, vol. 3 (Griesbach, AB: Historical Committee of the Regiment, n.d.), 76.
3 Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, 9.
4 Sheridan Atkinson and Harold Ghent, “The ‘Liberation’ of Modica, Sicily,” unpublished manuscript in possession of author, 4-6.
5 Richard S. Malone, A Portrait of War, 1939-1943 (Toronto: Collins Publishers, 1983), 157-58.
6 Peter Stursberg, The Sound of War: Memoirs of a CBC Correspondent (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), 100.
7 Malone, 159-60.
8 Stursberg, 100-01.
9 G.R. Stevens, The Royal Canadian Regiment, vol. 2 (London, ON: London Print & Lithography, 1967), 72.
10 Strome Galloway, Bravely Into Battle: The Autobiography of a Canadian Soldier in World War II (Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1988), 40-41.
11 Stevens, Royal Canadian Regiment, 72.
12 Col. S.W. Thomson, “Wounded in Sicily: 12 July 1943,” vol. 2, no. 2 (Autumn 1993), Canadian Military History, 109.
13 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
14 R.H. Roy, The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1919-1965 (Vancouver: Evergreen Press, 1969), 167.
15 “Diary of Major Durnford,” RG24, vol. 20405, Library and Archives Canada, 31-32.
16 Kim Beattie, Dileas: History of the 48th Highlanders of Canada: 1929-1956 (Toronto: 48th Highlanders of Canada, 1957), 232.
17 48th Highlanders of Canada War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
18 Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
19 Farley Mowat, The Regiment, 2nd ed. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973), 64.
20 Mowat, The Regiment, 64-65.
21 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 83.
22 Hastings and Prince Edward War Diary, July 1943, n.p.
23 G.W.L. Nicholson, The Gunners of Canada, vol. 2 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972), 143-44.
24 History of the 3rd Canadian Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery-September, 1939 to July, 1945 (n.p., 1945), 34-35.
25 Norm Bowen, interview by A.E. “Tony” Delamere, 28 September 2000, Canadian War Museum Oral History Project Collection.
26 Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, “Report No. 127: Canadian Operations in Sicily, July-August 1943, Part II: The Execution of the Operation by 1 Cdn Inf Div, Section 1: The Assault and Initial Penetration Inland,” Directorate of Heritage and History, Department of National Defence, 23.
27 Howard Graham, Citizen and Soldier: The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Howard Graham (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987), 156.
28 Galloway, Bravely Into Battle, 41.
29 “Diary of Lt. J.F. Wallace,” MG30, vol. 1, Library and Archives Canada, 9.
30 Graham, 156.
31 Nigel Hamilton, Monty: Master of the Battlefield, 1942-1944 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983), 309.
32 Richard Victor Latimer, “The Gibblers: Or Balmorals and Bully Beef,” unpublished memoir in possession of author, 255.
33 Galloway, Bravely Into Battle, 43.
10: WRANGLINGS
1 Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. and Friedrich von Stauffenberg, The Battle of Sicily (New York: Orion Books, 1991), 138-46.
2 “Report of Panzer Division ‘Hermann Goering’ (Operation section-Ia) On the Sicilian Campaign,” RG24, vol. 20509, Library and Archives Canada, 3-4.
3 “Report on the Fighting in Sicily from 10 Jul-17 Aug 43,” OB SW: Ops, RG24, vol. 20959, Library and Archives Canada, 7-8.
4 Mitcham and von Stauffenberg, 141-58.
5 Albert Kesselring, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselring, trans. Lynton Hudson (London: William Kimber, 1953), 163.
6 Mitcham and von Stauffenberg, 168-76.
7 Ibid., 176-79.
8 Ibid., 148-49.
9 Carlo D’Este, Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, 1943 (New York: Harper Perennial, 1988), 349-51.
10 Nigel Hamilton, Monty: Master of the Battlefield, 1942-1944 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983), 303-04.
11 Ibid., 304-05.
12 Flint Whitlock, The Rock of Anzio: From Sicily to Dachau, a History of the 45th Infantry Division (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998), 49.
13 C.J.C. Molony, The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Campaign in Sicily 1943 and the Campaign in Italy 3rd September 1943 to 31st March 1944 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1973), 88.
14 “Message Form, 15 Army Group to 7 Army & 8 Army,” July 1943, RG24, Vol. 10994, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
15 Whitlock, 49.
16 Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, “Report No. 135: Canadian Operations in Sicily, July-August 1943, Part II: The Execution of the Operation by 1 Cdn Inf Div, Section 2: The Pursuit of the Germans from Vizzini to Adrano 15 Jul- 6 Aug,” Directorate of Heritage and History, Department of National Defence, 3.
17 Omar N. Bradley and Clay Blair, A General’s Life: An Autobiography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), 189.
18 Molony, 95-96.
19 Field Marshal Alexander, The Conquest of Sicily, MG 27, vol. III AI, Library and Archives Canada, 22.
20 Bernard Law Montgomery, El Alamein to the River Sangro (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1948), 101.
21 G.W.L. Nicholson, The Canadians in Italy, 1939-1945, vol. 2 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1956), 86.
22 Nigel Nicolson, Alex: The Life of Field Marshal Alexander of Tunis (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973), 201.
23 Loyal Edmonton Regiment War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
24 “Diary of Lt. J.F. Wallace,” MG30, vol. 1, Library and Archives Canada, 10.
25 G.R. Stevens, A City Goes to War (Brampton, ON: Charters Publishing, 1964), 234.
26 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 7.
27 Rowland Ryder, Oliver Leese (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987), 140.
28 Loyal Edmonton Regiment War Diary, July 1943, n.p.
29 Ryder, 141.
30 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 4.
31 Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
32 “Personal Account by Lt.-Col The Lord Tweedsmuir of the Sicilian Campaign,” 145.241011(D31), Directorate of Heritage and History, Department of National Defence, 5.
33 Farley Mowat, The Regiment, 2nd ed. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973), 69-70.
34 Tweedsmuir, 6.
35 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 89.
36 Tweedsmuir, 6.
37 “The Historical Account of the Fighting Operations of the 12th Canadian Tank Regiment (Three Rivers Regiment of Quebec) from the Time of Their Landing in Sicily Up to and Including Their Last Action Fought West of Adrano on August the 5th, 1943,” RG24, vol. 10990, Library and Archives Canada, 3-4.
38 Wallace, 11.
39 Mowat, The Regiment, 71.
40 Kenneth B. Smith, Duffy’s Regiment: A History of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (Toronto: Dundurn, 1987), 87.
41 Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment War Diary, July 1943, n.p.
42 Tweedsmuir, 6.
43 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 5.
44 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 90.
45 Tweedsmuir, 6.
46 Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment War Diary, July 1943, n.p.
47 Tweedsmuir, 6.
48 Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment War Diary, July 1943, n.p.
49 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 6.
11: HAZARDS AND HARDSHIPS
1 Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, “Report No. 135: Canadian Operations in Sicily, July-August 1943, Part II: The Execution of the Operation by 1 Cdn Inf Div, Section 2: The Pursuit of the Germans from Vizzini to Adrano 15 Jul- 6 Aug,” Directorate of Heritage and History, Department of National Defence, 7.
2 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
3 “Diary of Lt. J.F. Wallace,” MG30, vol. 1, Library and Archives Canada, 10.
4 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
5 Wallace, 11.
6 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada War Diary, n.p.
7 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, n.p.
8 “Account by Lieutenant-Colonel I.S. Johnston, Officer Commanding 48 Highlanders given on 14 August 1943 at the Battalion Rest Area near Scordia,” RG24, vol. 10880, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
9 Kim Beattie, Dileas: History of the 48th Highlanders of Canada: 1929-1956 (Toronto: 48th Highlanders of Canada, 1957), 241.
10 The 48th Highlanders of Canada War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
11 Beattie, 242.
12 Howard Graham, Citizen and Soldier: The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Howard Graham (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987), 160-62.
13 Royal Canadian Regiment War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
14 Graham, 161-62.
15 George Kitching, Mud and Green Fields: The Memoirs of Major General George Kitching (Langley, BC: Battleline Books, 1986), 169.
16 J.L. Granatstein, The Generals: The Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War (Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1993), 158.
17 48th Highlanders War Diary, n.p.
18 G.W.L. Nicholson, The Canadians in Italy, 1939 -1945, vol. 2 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1956), 90.
19 “Message Form, 15 Army Group to 7 Army & 8 Army,” July 1943, RG24, vol. 10994, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
20 W.G.F. Jackson, Alexander of Tunis: As Military Commander (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1971), 221.
21 Martin Blumenson, The Patton Papers: 1940-1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 287-89.
22 Nigel Hamilton, Monty: Master of the Battlefield, 1942-1944 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983), 314.
23 Blumenson, 289-90.
24 Hamilton, 319.
25 Albert N. Garland and Howard McGaw Smyth, United States in World War II: The Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, Sicily and the Surrender of Italy (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History United States Army, 1993), 226.
26 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 8.
27 Wallace, 12.
28 “Account by Capt. C.H. Pritchard, Edmn R., formerly Adjutant and now carrier pl. comd. Given in bn rest area, 18 Aug 43, near Militello in Val di Catania,” RG24, Vol. 10982, Library and Archives Canada, 28.
29 Nicholson, 93.
30 Pritchard, 28.
31 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 9.
32 Wallace, 12.
33 Loyal Edmonton Regiment War Diary, July 1943, n.p.
34 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 93.
35 Wallace, 12-13.
36 Rennie Harry Heggie, The History of the Three Rivers Regiment (12 Canadian Armoured Regiment), 1943-1945 (n.p., n.d.), 25-26.
37 Pritchard, 28-29.
38 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 94.
39 Three Rivers Tank Regiment War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, 9.
40 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 10.
41 1st Canadian Infantry Division, General Staff War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, 25.
42 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,”10-11.
43 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 93.
44 G.R. Stevens, A City Goes to War (Brampton, ON.: Charters Publishing, 1964), 235.
45 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 11.
46 Robert Tooley, Invicta: The Carleton and York Regiment in the Second World War (Fredericton, NB: New Ireland Press, 1989), 126.
47 4th Canadian Field Regiment, RCE War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
48 Nicholson, Canadians in Italy, 95.
49 “The Historical Account of the Fighting Operations of the 12th Canadian Tank Regiment (Three Rivers Regiment of Quebec) from the Time of Their Landing in Sicily Up to and Including Their Last Action Fought West of Adrano on August the 5th, 1943,” RG24, vol. 10990, Library and Archives Canada, 5.
50 Wallace, 14.
51 Carleton and York Regiment War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, 2.
52 West Nova Scotia War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
53 1st Canadian Infantry Division, General Staff War Diary, July 1943, 26.
12: LONG AND SAVAGE MINUTES
1 Historical Officer, Canadian Military Headquarters, “Report No. 135: Canadian Operations in Sicily, July-August 1943, Part II: The Execution of the Operation by 1 Cdn Inf Div, Section 2: The Pursuit of the Germans from Vizzini to Adrano 15 Jul- 6 Aug,” Directorate of Heritage and History, Department of National Defence,13.
2 G.W.L. Nicholson, The Canadians in Italy, 1939-1945, vol. 2 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1956), 96.
3 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,”
13.
4 “Account given by Major A.R. Campbell Officer Commanding ‘A’ Company and Captain N.R. Waugh, MC, Officer Commanding ‘D’ Company, Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, on 18 August 1943, at Battalion Rest Area near Militello in val di Catania, Sicily,” RG24, vol. 10880, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
5 Appendix 6, “La March du 22e, Sur La Ville D’Enna (Sicile),” in Royal 22e Régiment War Diary, July 1943, Library and Archives Canada, 68.
6 Charles-Marie Boissonault, Histoire du Royal 22e Régiment (Quebec: Éditions du Pélican, 1964), 128.
7 Ibid., 129.
8 Appendix 6, “La March,” 68.
9 Boissonault, 130-32.
10 Ibid., 130-31.
11 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 129-31.
12 Appendix 6, “La March,” 69.
13 Boissonault, 132.
14 2 CDN LAA Reg’t RCA (n.p., 1945), 18.
15 Boissonault, 131.
16 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 15.
17 “Personal Account by Lt.-Col The Lord Tweedsmuir of the Sicilian Campaign,” 145.241011(D31), Directorate of Heritage and History, Department of National Defence, 8-9.
18 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 15.
19 Farley Mowat, The Regiment, 2nd ed. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973), 74.
20 Farley Mowat, And No Birds Sang (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979), 109-10.
21 “Account given by Major A.R. Campbell Officer Commanding ‘A’ Company and Captain N.R. Waugh, MC, Officer Commanding ‘D’ Company, Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, on 18 August 1943, at Battalion Rest Area near Militello in val di Catania, Sicily,” RG24, vol. 10880, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
22 Kenneth B. Smith, Duffy’s Regiment: A History of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (Toronto: Dundurn, 1987), 88.
23 Mowat, The Regiment, 78.
24 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 17.
25 Mowat, And No Birds Sang, 112.
26 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 17.
27 Mowat, The Regiment, 80.
28 Campbell and Waugh, n.p.
29 Smith, 89.
30 Historical Officer, “Report No. 135,” 16.