War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 67, March 1, 1945 to March 31, 1945

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The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Uedem, Xanten, Cleve, Rees, Isselburg, and Emmerich. It has entries about using a tank to pull out vehicles stuck in the mud while moving in Germany, not encountering heavy opposition, moving back to Cleve and preparing the area to stay in for multiple days, engaging in training, early morning parades, and organized sports while stationary, health, weapon, and vehicle checks, hearing that the 51st Highland Division had crossed the Rhine and prepping for their own crossing, getting a movement order and crossing the Rhine, moving through German villages with white flags hanging on the houses and encountering little to no opposition, crossing the canal into Emmerich and capturing the factory area but not without the most sticky hand-to-hand fighting, the engineers building bridges on the canals overnight for tanks etc. to cross, deserters letting the battalion know the enemy is planning for a counter-attack which turned out to be true and gave the Battalion just enough time to prepare, breaking the back of the enemy resistance in Emmerich and noting that there didn't seem to be a whole building left standing, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, casualties, a report about the "Sp" (support) Coy Crossing the Rhine on March 26th, and a message to be read to all troops from the Commander in Chief regarding the march to Rhineland.

In Collection:
Creator Subject Language Identifier
  • Vol. 67
Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 91 pages
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 51.6652, 6.27371
  • 52.07905, 8.29972
  • 51.65877, 6.45297
  • 51.76263, 6.39778
  • 51.83232, 6.46428
  • 51.83933, 6.24792
Physical repository Collection
  • Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Collection
Provenance
  • Transferred to UVic Special Collections from BC Archives, March 2006.
Provider Genre Archival item identifier
  • Series 11. 5.24
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • March 7, 2019 to March 18, 2019
Technical note
  • Scanned on Plustek Opticbook at 600 dpi TIFF. Mar 1945 - the folded outside cover is missing its back portion.
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