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Veterans’ Place at Gore Park The 13th Royal Regiment (now the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry) marches along King Street during the First World War. Photo courtesy of Local History & Archives, Hamilton Public Library 3 4 7 8 11 12 15 16 KING STREET SOUTH SIR JOHN A. CENOTAPH MACDONALD STATUE JOHN STREET HUGHSON STREET HUGHSON 1 2 5 6 9 10 13 14 17 18 “Give us the power and the purpose To make children laugh; To give work to those who fought for us; And comfort to those who suffered; Piper’s Lament – Afghanistan. And peace to the aged . Main Photo by: MCpl Ken Fenner © 2005 DND-MDN Hope to the enslaved, Food to the hungry, And strength to the weak.” Adaptation from the “Prayer for Victory” (1945) by Major Dick Diespecker, Royal Canadian Engineers. Background Image Photo by: MCpl Robert Bottrill © 2005 DND-MDN The Canadian Memorial Cross, The Sacrifice Medal, created in 2008, is sometimes called the “Silver Cross”, awarded to members of the Canadian is a token of national remembrance Forces killed or wounded. created in 1919. Originally awarded to the mothers of the fallen in the First World War, it is now awarded to the next of kin of Canadian Forces killed on active service. CYPRUS 1965: Canadian units EGYPT 1965: A Ferret Scout Car of 56 were deployed to keep the Reconnaissance Squadron, The Royal peace along the “Green Line” Canadian Dragoons, patrols the in Cyprus from 1965 to 1994. Sinai as part of the United Nations Over 25,000 Canadians served Emergency Force (UNEF). Between in Cyprus as part of Operation 1956 and 1967 nearly 10,000 Canadians Snowgoose, twenty-six of served with UNEF. Thirty-two which were killed. Canadian soldiers are buried in the Commonwealth Graves Cemetery, Gaza. Photo courtesy of Department of National Defence/Library & Archives Canada Photo courtesy of Department of National Defence/Library & Archives Canada Since 1949 nearly 125,000 Canadian service and police men and women have served on Peacekeeping Duty in over 100 missions around the globe. The names of 122 Canadian Peacekeepers killed in service are inscribed in the National Book of Remembrance within the Peace Tower in Ottawa. The 1988 Nobel Peace Canadian Canadian United Nations Canadian prize was awarded Korea Medal Volunteer General Service Peacekeeping to United Nations Service Medal Medal Korea Service Medal Peacekeepers. for Korea AFGHANISTAN 2006: 1st Battalion, the Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group – Operation Medusa. Between 2001 and 2014 nearly 40,000 Canadians served. Of these 158 soldiers, one diplomat and two aid workers were killed in service. Photo by: Cpl Pierre Habib © 2014 DND-MDN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS (SINCE 1947) KOREA (1950-1953) NATO OPERATIONS (SINCE 1950) GULF AND KUWAIT (1990-1991) SOMALIA (1992-1993) KOSOVO (1999) LIBYA (2011) AFGHANISTAN (2001-2014) Special Service Gulf and Kuwait Somalia General NATO Service Medal Medal for NATO Medal Medal Campaign Star Operation Unified and Expeditionary Operation Allied Protector Service Force Kosovo Libya PERSIAN GULF 1991: Royal Canadian KOREA 1953: HMCS Haida cuts through Air Force CF-118 Hornet aircraft flew the waters of the Sea of Japan as part combat missions over the Persian Gulf of Canada’s contribution to United and, in later operations, over Kosovo, Nations operations in Korea. Between Libya and Afghanistan. 1951 and 1953 over 26,000 Canadians served and 516 died as part of Canada’s Artist: Rich Thistle Korean War effort. Photo courtesy of Library & Archives Canada South-West Asia General Campaign Star General Service Operational Service Medal Service Medal South-West Asia Medal South-West South-West Asia Asia Soldiers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force go “over the top” during the First World War. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum The Canadian Victoria Cross, created in 2008, is Canada’s highest award for military valour. The original Commonwealth version, created by Queen Victoria in 1856, has been awarded to 94 Canadians. The Canadian medal is produced using bronze taken from Russian cannons captured during the Crimean War (following the tradition of the original British Victoria Cross), as well as metal taken from the Confederation Medal (1867) and native metals from all regions of Canada. A Canadian infantryman of the Royal Canadian Regiment awaits medical care after being wounded in Korea 1952. 1 Photo by: Paul J. Tomelin, courtesy of Library & Archives Canada VALOUR 4 3 2 Survivors of torpedoed merchant ship aboard HMCS Arvida, St. John’s, Nfld., September 1942. Photo courtesy of Library & Archives Canada A group of children en route to a Christmas party sponsored by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, Holland December 19, 1944. Image courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum A poem to the “Liberators of Holland” written by a grateful Dutch citizen. Image courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum The Liberation of Holland by Canadian forces 1945. Image courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum Canadian motorcyclist (Military Police) in Holland 1945. Freedom Image courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum Patrol in the Panjwaíi District of Afghanistan. Photo by: Sgt Daren Kraus © 2010 DND-MDN Field message received November 11, 1918, ordering that all hostilities are to cease at 11:00a.m., marking the end of the First World War. Image courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum Over 8,000 sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy/Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve left Hamilton to serve on Corvettes such as HMCS Kitchener which supported the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. Photo courtesy of Library & Archives Canada On exercise in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut February, 2014. Photo by: MCpl Dan Pop © 2014 DND-MDN Duty Dangerous duty: A Royal Canadian Air Force Bomber Command pilot, Second World War. Photo Courtesy of Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Six Nations athlete Cogwagee (right), winner of the Around the Bay Road Race and Boston Marathon, served as Private Tom Longboat during the First World War. He was a dispatch runner in France with the 107th Pioneer Battalion. Photo courtesy of Library & Archives Canada rie A group of Argylls relax between operations in Holland 1945. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum Celebrating a birthday in Korea. Photo by: Kenneth Gawthorn A group of soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada serving in Kandahar. Photo courtesy of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Collection, 2009 Camarade The official dedication of the Hamilton cenotaph, by Governor General Viscount Byng of Vimy, May 23, 1923. Photo courtesy of Local History & Archives, Hamilton Public Library Aboriginal Veterans Day ceremony on the shoreline of Rinker Lake, Ontario. Photo by: Capt Robert Munroe © 2013 DND-MDN A Canadian Forces helicopter flies over Parliament Hill as part of commemorative ceremonies marking the end of the Afghan mission, 2014. Photo by: Cpl Pierre Habib © 2014 DND-MDN The Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada Honour added a red flower to a wreath, representing one of the twelve years of the mission in Afghanistan. Photo by: MCpl Vincent Carbonneau, Rideau Hall © OSGG, 2014 The new Queen’s Colour, based on the flag of Canada, is presented to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment, October 2, 2002. Photo by: Beth McQueen “Banners of the Empire”: Canadian colours (flags) were deposited for safekeeping during the First World War on the monument to Major General James Wolfe in Westminster Abbey because, for the first time, military units would not be taking their colours into battle with them. 17,000 gather at Copps Coliseum, in Loyalty the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, on October 2, 2002, as part of the centennial celebrations for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada. Photo by: Beth McQueen An Afghan boy tries to communicate with a Canadian soldier, Kandahar 2011. Photo by: Sgt Matthew McGregor © 2011 DND-MDN Canadian soldiers escort a food convoy into occupied Holland during the Second World War. Photo courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum A member of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry in Juba South Sudan 2012. Photo by: Sgt Norm McLean © 2012 DND-MDN Local citizens welcome Canadian soldiers as liberators in Italy 1943. Photo courtesy of Library & Archives Canada Hope Canadian soldiers pass refugees as they move through Northwest Europe in 1944. Photo courtesy of Library & Archives Canada The Governor General and Commander- in-Chief of Canada with a Silver Cross Mother at the National Remembrance Day ceremony, 2012. Photo by: Sgt Ronald Duchesne, Rideau Hall © OSGG, 2012 A memorial to the “Great Escape”: In March, 1944, seventy-six allied Prisoners of War, including nine Canadians, tunnelled their way out of Stalag-Luft III near Sagan, Poland. Of the seventy-three recaptured, fifty were executed by the Gestapo, including six of the Canadians. Photo by: LCol Alex Fiegler (Ret’d) © 2010 DND-MDN Remembrance Day ceremony Afghanistan 2010. Photo by: Cpl Roxanne Shewchuk © 2010 DND-MDN France 1944: soldiers of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry pay respects to fellow members of their Regiment who died at Dieppe on August 19, 1942. Photo courtesy of Local History & Archives, Hamilton Public Library Impromptu memorial to a fallen soldier, Hamilton 2014. Photo by: Jeff Tessier “At the going down of the sun… ” Photo by: Col Geordie Elms (Ret’d) Remembrance A Hamilton soldier begins his last journey home. Kandahar, November 26, 2006. Photo by: Sgt Lou Penney © 2006 DND-MDN Card sent to a Hamilton father announcing that his son is missing in action, as well as the later telegram confirming his death on active service, 1941. Images courtesy of the Hamilton Military Museum Canadian Dressing Station, Flanders 1917. Photo courtesy of Library & Archives Canada Sacrifice “At the going down of the sun… ” Photo by: Col Geordie Elms (Ret’d) Members of the Canadian Special Operations Force Command at the naming ceremony for Patrol Base Cirillo in Iraq on November 6, 2014.