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NUMBER S3 JULY, 1951 25c PER COPY uly, 1951THE FORTY-NINER GENUINE FORD PARTS That Are DEPENDABLE SATISFACTORY LOW IN COST Also DEALERS IN MERCURY-LINCOLN-METEOR CARS FORD-BUILT ENGLISH ANGLIA AND PREFECT CARS MERCURY TRUCKS Waterloo Motors Ltd. MERCURY - LINCOLN - METEOR DEALERS JASPER AVE. AT 107th STREET @ PHONE 42171 SOUTH SIDE PARTS DEPOT @ 7819 104 Street @ Phone 35220 The Forty-Niner Number Fifty-Three EDMONTON, ALBERTA July, 1951 EDITORIAL fantrymen who two weeks ago lost 500 to 600 men stemming a vast Chinese Communist tide. The few For a third time in thirty-six years men are survivors of the two valiant units@the 1st Battalion enlisting for active full-time service wearing the Gloucester Regiment and the 170th Independent badges of and carrying .on the traditions of the Mortor Battery@lined a parade ground to receive 49th Bn. C.E.F. and the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. the highest American Army group honor. True enough, a battalion of the Regiment is not serving as such but is represented by a company of "I came to pay tribute to the wonderful Com- the Canadian Infantry Regiment of the 27th Brigade monwealth forces," Van Fleet said. "I wanted to for service presumably in Europe. tell you most emphatically how proud and thankful Many of our World War II comrades are again I am for your achievement." serving with our old and tried and true associates, the P.P.C.L.L, in the fierce campaigns on the Korean V.C.'s Again Reach Peak of Honour peninsula. Names of five Canadian winners of the Victoria To those new comrades of ours now enlisting Cross in the First Great War will be perpetuated in who will be serving in foreign land's, but not neces- Jasper National Park with the naming of mountain sarily under conditions 'of actual combat with the peaks, the Canadian National Railways announced enemy, we would say: "We know how difficult it is la'st May. to serve on foreign soil during periods of 'Cold War' and the boredom of seeming futility of it when it is The five men, all of Alberta, are Pte. John Chip- unrelieved by the periods of intense action in a man Kerr, Pte. Cecil Kinross, Lieut. G. B. McKeen, 'Shooting' war. Pte. George Pattison and Sgt. R. L. Zengel. "But may the honours earned by the 49th Bn. The five peaks hitherto unnamed, stretch in a C.E.F. and the Loyal Edmonton Regiment in two 12-mile line a few miles north-west of the village global conflicts help you, our new comrades, to carry of Jasper. on those same traditions, no matter what the form Mount Kinross, 8,985 feet, one of the most of service that may be required of you and which spectacular peaks in the park, is immediately west we all know you will enhance if combat comes. of Pyramid Lake. In line follow Mount Kerr, 8,664 "May we say to you through our magazine and feet; Mount Pattison, 7,873 feet, and Mount Zengel. individually as opportunity offers, that we welcome 9,475 feet. you to our association and wish you all God speed It is pleasant to see that the 49th Battalion and the best of luck." V.C.'s are honoured by being next in line to each other. You will recall that Kerr won his V.C. on the Brig. Kitching Receives Appointment Somme, when he and his comrades were the cause _ Canada's director-general of army personnel, of capturing some 60 odd Germans after a bombing Brig. George Kitching, has been appointed com- struggle. Kerr, after being wounded in the hand, mander of the Canadian army staff college at jumped on top of the trench and caused the sur- Kingston, Ont., it was. announced last March. This render 'of the enemy. Kinross in his exploit at appointment follows in the train of a succession of Passchendeale advanced with his party until all were promotions and appointments received during the casualties and then subdued the Germans in a pill- course of his army career, not the least of which box which had been causing numerous casualties was his command of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and holding up the advance of his company. He in the last war. was wounded in this battle. The 40-year-old veteran created something 'of a An editorial in the Edmonton Journal says, in record in the number of promotions he obtained part, "There will be general approval in this during the Second Great War. Entering the Royal province, and across Canada, also, of the decision Canadian Regiment at the outbreak as a lieutenant, to name five mountain peaks in Jasper Park after he rose steadily in rank and by March, 1944, was Albertans who won the Victoria Cross in World War an acting major-general. I. Valor could scarcely be more' fittingly perpetuated- Born in China, the son of a member of the This practtice .of permanently recording the valor of British consular 'service (that backbone of British Canadians in the geography of their native land is tradition and diplomacy), he was educated in Eng- most commendable." land and graduated in 1930 from Sandhurst Royal Military College, serving for a time with the Mrs. Gostick, secretary of the Geographical Gloucester Regiment (the famous Back-to-Backs, Board, said all five mountains may be seen plainly who lately in Korea upheld the glorious traditions by highway travellers in the park. of that valiant County regiment) in Singapore and India. He resigned his commisaion in 1937 and came Sojourns In Edmonton to Canada, entering business in Montreal. Mrs. Minerva Peterson, widow of the late Tony, It is interesting to know that Col. Jim Stone was a visitor in Edmonton this last winter having came to Canada from that County of Gloucester. a position as House Mother since last September They evidently do something to a man whether he until spring. She enjoyed reading the magazine is bom there or associated with those yeomen but felt a little sad at the number of old boys pass- "down yonder". ing on. She was wishful of visiting some of the men WITH THE BRITISH 29th BRIGADE, KOREA in hospital while here, but unfortunately we hadn't @(Reuters)@Lt.-Gen. James Van Fleet, United the names of any who were patients just at that States 8th Army Commander, Tuesday, May 8, pre- time of writing. Mrs. Peterson wishes to be remem- sented a presidential citation to heroic British in- bered to her husband's friends. July, 1951 THE FORTY-NINER RED PATCH IN ITALY Dispatches by Ross Munro The Story of the 1st' Canadian Division in Action (We are indebted to the Canadian Press for the sion out of the line then tackled the 1st Parachute privilege of publishing this "on the spot" account Division, one of the best in the German army. of the 1st Division's initial fighting.@Editor.) Over the rolling fields, blasted by thousands of rounds of shellfire, the Canadians fought through By Ross Munro the vineyards and the orchards of the Moro valley, battled their way up the coast and the main inland FROM REGGIO TO ORTONA road to Ortona itself. On the starlit night of Sept. 2-3 the 8th Army Ortona Captured launched the invasion of the mainland of Europe, For eight days they fought from house to house striking across Messina Straits to land two divisions through the shattered streets of Ortona against on the toe of Italy. Both divisions were battle-tested Germans who resisted to the death. Finally Ortona veterans of the Sicilian campaign@1st Canadian was captured on Dec. 28. It is the 1st Division's and 5th British. most shining battle honor. But the Division's losses Only 16 days earlier Messina had fallen, ending were heavier there than any time since the landing the battle of Sicily. The Germans had moved about in Sicily July 10. Official figures show casualties seven divisions south of Rome by September but from Sept. 3 to Jan. 8, covering the Moro and they were not fully deployed and the Nazi command Ortona battle, totalled 3,869@879 killed, 2,841 decided against making a. defensive stand in the wounded, 149 missing@compared with 3,453 for mountainous southern extremities. the whole period from July 10 to Nov. 23. A division in Calabria was withdrawn to Naples In November a large Canadian contingent and the Canadian and British infantry landed with reached Italy from Britain and an all-Canadian ease on the broad beaches between Reggio and San corps, under command of Lt.-Gen. H. D. G. Crerar, Giovanni. Italian troops surrendered on the beaches. was formed as part of the 8th Army. In late As they withdrew, the Germans carried out de- January it moved into the Adriatic-coast line as a molitions of bridges and roads every few miles. The Corps where its activity was limited to patrols until 8th Army advance from the bridgehead was slow Spring. and laborious. The Canadians pressed right up the With the 5th Army north of Naples, Canadian spine of Calabria and the British division moved special service troops fought in the mountains and along the west coast road. later in the Nettuno bridgehead with. a composite Armistice Signed Canadian and American force. The Italian armistice had been signed the day MAINLAND INVADED of the landing and it was announced Sept. 8 when The 700-mile advance of the 1st Division from the Canadians were deep in the mountains. The 5th Regio to Orfcona was covered for the Canadian Army landed at Salerno Bay the next morning daily newspapers through their co-operative asso- against heavy opposition.