Embarkation & Disembarkation

A copy of the orders:

1 St BN THE BLACK WATCH RHE OF CANADA
Past 11 Orders issued by
Last Order Canadian Section QHR 2nd Echelon NO 38
NO 37 21 ARMY GROUP 15 July 44
14 Jul 44

1) Embarkation & Disembarkation
b) Embarked in the United Kingdom wef 4 JUL 44 disembarked I n France
wef 7 JUL 44

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(Along with hundreds of other soldiers.)

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For officer IC
Canadian Section GHQ 2nd Echelon
21 ARMY GROUP

The men of 2nd Division arrived in France in broad daylight after an uneventful crossing of the English Channel. The Black Watch War Diarist noted that the weather was warm and clear. “We passed,” he wrote, “alongside the battleship HMS Rodney which was shelling the enemy.

After disembarking and shedding their “Mae Wests” the battalion marched from Courseulles to Vers-sur-Mer where Major Motzfeld and the advance party had laid out the battalion position.

On the afternoon of July 11, II Canadian Corps became operational. The commanding officers must have felt they were fully trained for there was little attempt to provide the men with realistic information on the nature of fighting.
On July 18th 5 Brigade moved to an assembly area on the western outskirts of Caen. It was time to go to war.

2nd Canadian Infantry Division Patch

to differentiate where they belong

The Brigade-Terry Copp 1