View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Scholars Commons Canadian Military History Volume 12 | Issue 3 Article 2 4-26-2012 The aC nadians in Sicily: Sixty Years On Geoffrey Hayes University of Waterloo Recommended Citation Hayes, Geoffrey (2003) "The aC nadians in Sicily: Sixty Years On," Canadian Military History: Vol. 12 : Iss. 3 , Article 2. Available at: http://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol12/iss3/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Hayes: Canadians in Sicily The Canadians in Sicily Sixty Years On Geoffrey Hayes anadians know very little about the role Canadian Regiment, (RCR) then training in Cplayed by their countrymen in Sicily sixty Ayrshire, Scotland. It was a far different unit years ago. In their popular history of the Second than the one he had left: “New equipment was World War, historians Brereton Greenhous and much in evidence, new weapons caught the eye.” W.A.B. Douglas summed up our performance Galloway took command of the RCR’s “B” this way: Company. Captain Charles Lithgow was his Second-in-Command and a friend, but he knew The Canadians were beset by problems of none of his three subalterns, “two recent RMC command and control. Some of their products direct from Canada and a very inexperienced regimental officers responded uncertainly to the concentrated pressure of unmilitary but comical chap who had been some battle, maps were read wrongly, and their radios sort of man-about-town before the war, and was too often failed them at vital moments.