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  2. Biography Part 1
  3. Biography Part 2
  4. Joining Up
  5. Early Training
  6. Moving out
  7. First Promotion
  8. On to Petawawa
  9. Petawawa
  10. Training & Drills
  11. Dress BLues
  12. Home for Christmas
  13. Dress Blues & back to camp
  14. Forming our Regiment
  15. Winter in Petawawa Camp
  16. Training, training & more training
  17. Camp dances
  18. Gunnery Training
  19. Summer of '41 in camp
  20. Long hot summer of 1941
  21. Maturing and changing
  22. Going Overseas
  23. Aboard the HMT Oronsay
  24. Aboard the Oronsay
  25. A Successful crossing
  26. Aldershott Waterloo west
  27. Christmas , 1941. Aldershot.
  28. Christmas , 1941. Ostrich Eggs.
  29. Walking where Mum and Dad were born
  30. Bonnie Scotland (cont'd)
  31. Their Majesties Review
  32. Looking for a good time?
  33. Gordie & Duke see London
  34. In the mud in Sennybridge
  35. Cleaning off the Mud!
  36. Leaving Aldershot
  37. Aftermath of Dieppe
  38. Coastal Defence
  39. 5th Division Assault Course
  40. 5h Division Assault Course, (continued)
  41. Blackie Rowe - Assault Course
  42. Christmas 1942
  43. Our Second Christmas in England
  44. Major Brown's wedding and the charming girls from Nutley
  45. Still at Chapelwood
  46. Some Good Times
  47. Aboard the John Ericcson
  48. Under Fire
  49. The Attack Continues
  50. Naples in War Time
  51. Afrigola Italy
  52. Closer to Action
  53. Impressions of Afrigola
  54. Gravina, Italy
  55. Getting our Equipment ready
  56. You will feel the earth a-trembling
  57. San Leonardo, Italy
  58. Bravery at San Leonardo
  59. 16 Tons per Gun
  60. A Day Long Remembered
  61. The MAD MILE
  62. Harassing the Germans
  63. Fine Wine Tales
  64. Harmony reigned on Easy Charlie
  65. Transferred to RHQ
  66. Friends in the RHQ
  67. Mobile Baths
  68. Trouble in Campobasso
  69. History of Acquafondata
  70. We All Knew Better!
  71. Cat and Mice
  72. Capua. Italy
  73. The Push to Rome
  74. Under FIre at Pignataro
  75. Heavy Casualties
    (Photo) Cassino War Memorial
  76. A Long Day!
  77. The Hitler LIne
    (Photo) Hitler Line by Charles Comfort
  78. A Killing Ground
  79. Heroics at The Melfa
  80. Crossing The Melfa
  81. Pofi, Italy May 28
  82. A Bizarre Happening
  83. King Oscar Sardines
  84. A Bitter Pill to Swallow
  85. Regroup and Retrain
  86. Volturno River
  87. Broken Rules
  88. Entering Rome
  89. Rome, July 1,2,3
  90. Homemade Spaghetti
  91. Dysentry
  92. A Promotion
  93. Identity Hidden
  94. Quite a Show
  95. Montemaggoire
  96. Monetmaggoire (2)
  97. Death Valley
  98. Self Preservation
  99. Pretty G-- Damn Hot eh?
  100. The Valley of Death
  101. Scott Coyle
  102. Dressing Wounds
  103. A Heart Pounding Situation
  104. Railway Gun
  105. Coriano Ridge
  106. Lucky 13
  107. Enemy Up Close
  108. Too Scared to Move
  109. A Miracle Indeed
  110. Looking After Me
  111. Imagine That!
  112. Of Mice and Fleas
  113. A Sobering
    Effect
  114. Italy, Sept 1944
  115. The Rains had Started
  116. We were Fortunate
  117. Violent Gaseous Happenings
  118. Missing & Believed Captured
  119. A True Bay Boy
  120. Daring Feats of Courage
  121. Elusive Fowl
  122. Hard Slogging
  123. Boys at Heart
  124. Man O' Live
  125. I Still Eat Grapes
  126. The Mad Major
  127. Return to the Front
  128. Quite a Coup
  129. Evening to Remember
  130. Resiliant Peasants
  131. We Loved you All
  132. Sauerkraut Classic
  133. A Scrounger
  134. Chops & Roasts
  135. Daddy Brooks
  136. Christmas Day
  137. Off to the Dentist
  138. Tragic News
  139. Fox Troop's Still
  140. Mezzano Italy
  141. Mezzano Italy, January
  142. A Scrounger Supreme
  143. The Danger & the Fun
  144. Bully & Loud Mouth
  145. A Terrible Going Over
  146. Bare Assed
  147. Enough Rum
  148. White Bread & Coca Cola
  149. Bonjour, Canada
  150. A Pleasant Interlude
  151. Ten Day Leaves
  152. Two Streams
  153. The Neptune Bar
  154. Stood Up in Aberdeen
  155. Well Toasted Again!
  156. A Formal Luncheon
  157. Wervik, Belgium
  158. My Brother George
  159. Holland, March/April, 1945
  160. Elst Holland, April 1945
  161. Princess Elizabeth Crowned
  162. Recent Memories
  163. Mighty Maroon Machine
  164. I was Being Watched!
  165. A Very Violent NIght
  166. Violent Night Continues
  167. Violent Nightmare
  168. No End to the Battle
  169. A Magnificent Stand
  170. Otterloo, Early Morning
  171. Lt. Alex Ross
  172. TA Horrific Night
  173. A Gallon of Rum
  174. More Otterloo Stories
  175. The War Goes On
  176. Lost and Wounded
  177. To Ijsselmeer, Holland
  178. Leeuwarden Area, Holland
  179. A 24 Hour Truce
  180. Entrance into Winschoten
  181. Holland's Liberation
  182. My Leave to Scotland
  183. The War is OVER!
  184. Winding Down
  185. Gunners without Guns
  186. Reduced Numbers
  187. Major Doug Weir
  188. Joe Telfer
  189. Eggs and Beer
  190. CWAC Pipe Band
  191. Leave in Wervik
  192. GOING HOME! FINALLY!
  193. Back to England
  194. The Queen Elizabeth
  195. Steaming westward
  196. New York to Indian Head
  197. Regina Saskatchewan
  198. Warm Welcomes
  199. Stuck in Sask.
  200. CPR to Vancouver
  201. Home at Last
  202. Lingering Thoughts
  203. The Bannerman Family
  204. Wrapping it Up

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