TANK SATURDAY – Canada at War – MAY 9 2020 – CANCELLED
It is with heavy heart that I have to announce the first cancellation in the 2020 Tank Season. In response to COVID-19 and the recent provincial emergency order to prohibit…
Operation Goldflake
By late January, 1945 all the Ontario Regiment’s tanks had returned from their static gun positions to the various squadron lines, as detailed in the article “January 1945”. Late in…
January 1945
“Buckshee” of “B” Squadron near San Clemente, Italy on January 21, 1945. Photo by Lieutenant Daniel Guravich. Library and Archives Canada, PA-151745 The photo of the Ontario Regiment tank and…
Christmas 1939
December 1939 saw the Ontario Regiment’s first Christmas of the Second World War. The months since the Regiment’s mobilization on September 1 were focused on recruiting, organization and elementary training.…
BSM Fred Palmer
Fred Palmer was the second of the five 116th Battalion Sergeants-Major and was the longest serving. He is also the one BSM that the most biographical information available as he…