First-aid personnel of the Three Rivers Regiment placing Sergeant Johnny Marchand on a stretcher, Ortona, Italy, 21 Decemb [...] |
A rifleman from the Loyal Edmonton Regiment in Ortona. |
Canadian soldiers involved in a fire fight wtih German soldiers. |
Platoon Commander Lieutenant I. Macdonald (with binoculars) ready to give order to attack at S. Leonardo di Ortona, Italy, [...] |
The ruins could hide snipers or heavier weapons. The rubble could stop a tank. Boobytraps and mines could be anywhere. (Th [...] |
Lance Corporal George Netherwood (left) and Private W.L. Soderberg (right) with Bren guns, Private Earl Israel (rear), Italy. |
Troops from The Loyal Edmonton Regiment shelter in a ravaged building while getting grenades ready for throwing. |
An unidentified member of the West Nova Scotia Regiment firing a PIAT anti-tank weapon. |
Two days before Christmas, some troops from The Loyal Edmonton Regiment receive mail. Letters from home were an important [...] |
Many civilians had stayed in the town throughout the fighting, despite warnings from the Germans to leave. With the end of [...] |
German paratroops surrendering to Canadian soldiers, December 1943 |
The team from The Loyal Edmonton Regiment who dug out Lance Corporal Boyd. |
During the fighting at Ortona, a Canadian truck burns after being set on fire by German mortar fire. |
Stretcher bearers evacuating casualties from 'A' Company Headquarters, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (P.P.C. [...] |
Personnel of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment having tea and sandwiches outside Battalion Headquarters. |
Graves of personnel from the Edmonton Regiment killed in the battle of Ortona, 7 January, 1944. |
Personnel of the Saskatoon Light Infantry firing mortar in the vicinity of Ortona, Italy, 5 January 1944. From left to rig [...] |
Edmonton Regiment soldiers use walkie-talkie during advance in Ortona, Italy, 21 December 1943. Carrying it is Lance Corpo [...] |
Sergeant F.V. MacDougal and Sergeant-Major J.H. Ferguson, 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery (R.C.A.), emerging [...] |
A Canadian Sherman tank moves through the destroyed town of Ortona. |
A rifle section of Canadian troops proceeds along a narrow street, keeping close to a brick wall before crossing over to t [...] |
Members of the Edmonton Regiment digging out a comrade who was buried alive in the wreckage of a building demolished by th [...] |
A Canadain sherman tabk from the Eight Army is seen in action on a street in Ortona, Italy during eight days of fighting t [...] |
Lance Corporal Roy Boyd of The Loyal Edmonton Regiment is rescued after being burried under the rubble of the mined house [...] |
