Hi Michelle and Kieran...it looks like your dad and mine went along the same path. Very interesting!

Like I said earlier, my dad was a tank commander with the 22nd Armoured Regiment and landed in Normandy on July 24th 1944. He spent the next 9 months chasing the Germans all the way from Caen to Belgium, and through the Falaise Gap. I still have his old maps that give a detailed location of his unit; he was basically 2-3 days behind the actual fighting on the front and returned to England in April 1945.

He was 35 when he arrived in France after having spent some 5 years in London during the Blitz etc and was called up in 1943 when able bodied soldiers were getting fewer and fewer.

There is a French bulletin board that is mostly devoted to the Falaise Gap; it's in French but Kieran and I have posted there in English - and the messages are always well received. Kieran has some good photos there, as do others, and there is a section there just for Canadians.

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