10 November 2014

Canada and the Netherlands - Remembrance

from Veterans Affairs Canada:

"The liberation of the Netherlands, from September 1944 to April 1945, played a key role in the culmination of the Second World War, as the Allied forces closed in on Germany from all sides. The First Canadian Army played a major role in the liberation of the Dutch people who had suffered terrible hunger and hardship under the increasingly desperate German occupiers...

...More than 7,600 Canadians died in the nine-month campaign to liberate the Netherlands, a tremendous sacrifice in the cause of freedom. "

 Read the full article here: Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada