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27. BWA, letter dated 26 September 1944 from Lt. Col. Frank Mitchell to Lt. Col. A. Wright.
28. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 9,879, Battle Experience Questionnaires, Maj Alan Carmichael, 1 st Battalion, Royal
Highland Regiment of Canada, 6 October 1944.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. J.A.B. Nixon, Personal interview, 2007.
34. DHH account by Maj Pinkham, OC C Company, of the company attack at Coppenaxfort, given to Capt Engler at
Bourbourgville, 17 September 1944.
35. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 13,751, War Diary 2 nd Canadian Infantry Division, September 1944.
36. DHH account by Maj Pinkham, OC C Company, of the company attack at Coppenaxfort, given to Capt Engler at
Bourbourgville, 17 September 1944.
37. Ibid.
38. BWA, anonymous memoir from a soldier in B Company, circa 1945.
39. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 14,109, War Diary 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, September 1944.
40. J.A.B. Nixon, Personal interview, August 2007.
41. Ibid.
42. J.A.B. Nixon, Notes on a personal interview, March 2004.
43. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 14,109, War Diary 5 th Canadian Infantry Brigade, September 1944.
44. BWA, anonymous memoir from a soldier in B Company, circa 1945.
45. J.A.B. Nixon, Personal interview, August 2007.
46. Account of a two-company attack at Spycker 2077 by B and C Companies, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada,
given by Maj Pinkham, OC C Company, to Capt Engler at Bourbourgville, 17 September 1944.
47. Warren Trudeau, Personal interview, March 2004.
48. Ibid.
49. Account of a two-company attack at Spycker 2077 by B and C Companies, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada,
given by Maj Pinkham, OC C Company, to Capt Engler at Bourbourgville, 17 September 1944.
50. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 14,109, War Diary 5 th Canadian Infantry Brigade, September 1944.
51. Ibid.
52. Account of a two-company attack at Spycker 2077 by B and C Companies, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada,
given by Maj Pinkham, OC C Company, to Capt Engler at Bourbourgville, 17 September 1944.
53. J.A.B. Nixon, Personal interview, August 2007; Warren Trudeau, Personal interview, March 2004.
54. J.A.B. Nixon, Personal interview, August 2007.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 9,879, Battle Experience Questionnaires, Maj Alan Carmichael, 1 st Battalion, Royal
Highland Regiment of Canada, 6 October 1944.
58. J.A.B. Nixon, Personal interview, August 2007.
59. Ibid.
60. BWA, Black Watch War Diary, September 1944; LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 9,879, Battle Experience
Questionnaires, Maj Alan Carmichael, 1 st Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, 6 October 1944.
61. J.A.B. Nixon, Personal interview, August 2007.
62. Canada Gazette; citation for the Military Medal for Private Frederick De Lutis.
63. Ibid.
64. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 14,109, War Diary 5 th Canadian Infantry Brigade, September 1944.
65. Account of a two-company attack at Spycker 2077 by B and C Companies, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada,
given by Maj Pinkham, OC C Company, to Capt Engler at Bourbourgville, 17 September 1944.
66. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 14,109, War Diary 5 th Canadian Infantry brigade, September 1944.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid.
70. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 13,751, War Diary 2 nd Canadian Infantry Division, September 1944.
71. After Spycker was retaken from the Germans, 1 st Canadian War Crimes Investigation Unit was called into investigate a
possible atrocity at Spycker. The bodies of Jarvis and the two others killed in the farmhouse area had been tossed into a
common grave after the Germans retook the position. Although at first it seemed as though this was yet another case of
Canadian prisoners of war being executed at the hands of their German captors, the Black Watch CO at the time, Lt. Col.
Bruce Ritchie, concluded that the only atrocity that was committed was in the form of the burial, confirming that the three
were indeed killed during and not after the battle as investigators suspected. With this information, the case was closed.
LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 16,408, War Diary No 1 Canadian War Crimes Investigation Unit.
72. Letter from Lt. Col. Frank Mitchell to the Commandant, 22 September 1944.
73. LAC, Records Group 24, Vol 15,885, War Diary 18th Canadian Field Ambulance, September 1944.
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