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force in the process of crossing, when they were particularly vulnerable.” Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives<br />
(LHCMA), King’s College London, Liddell Hart Papers (LHP)1/679, Liddell Hart to Lord A. Tedder with attached questionnaire<br />
of interview with General Miles Dempsey. 1 May 1952. LHCMA, LHP1/679.<br />
7. National Archives of the United Kingdom (hereinafter NAUK) WO171/439 WD of the 7th Arm Division. Operational<br />
Order No 6 July 24 1944; WO171/371 WD Guards Armoured Division Operational Order No 2 Operation SPRING<br />
July 24 1944; LAC RG 24 Vol. 10, 808 2nd Cdn Corps Operational Order No 3 Operation SPRING July 24 1944; LAC RG<br />
24 Vol. 14,116 WD 6th Cdn Infantry Brigade “GOC’s Conference 0900hrs 23 July 1944; LAC RG 24 Vol.13, 750 WD<br />
2nd Canadian Infantry Division Operational Order No 1 July 24 1944; LAC RG 24 Vol. 14,109 WD 5th Cdn Infantry<br />
Brigade Operational Order No 1 July 24 1944.<br />
8. LAC RG 24 Vol. 14,116 WD 6th Cdn Infantry Brigade; LAC RG 24 Vol.13, 750 WD 2nd Canadian Infantry Division; LAC<br />
RG 24 Vol. 14,109 WD 5th Cdn Infantry Brigade. Following Simonds’s centralized command structure, which put the<br />
emphasis on fear rather than team building, Foulkes and Megill were stripped of any flexibility in command. Their roles<br />
in SPRING were limited to ensuring that the various components under command were synchronized to accomplish each<br />
phase of the operation in the time and manner called for by the Corps Commander.<br />
9. LAC RG 24 Vol. 14,109 WD 5th Cdn Infantry Brigade Operational Order No 1. July 24 1944.<br />
10. 4th Brigade was commanded by Brigadier Sherwood Lett.<br />
11. Directorate of History and Heritage (hereafter DHH) 92/252 Letter from T.E. Williamson Troop Leader B Sqn 6th Cdn<br />
Armd Regiment (1 Hussars) to DHS January 23 1946.<br />
12. Michael R. McNorgan, The Gallant Hussars: A History of the First Hussars Regiment, 1856–2004 (London: First Hussars<br />
Cavalry Fund, 2004), p.168.<br />
13. Williamson Letter.<br />
14. Williamson Letter; LAC RG 24 Vol.14, 221 WD 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade (hereafter 2 CIB) and 2 Canadian Infantry<br />
Division War Diary Operation Order Operation “‘SPRING.’”<br />
15. DHH Memorandum of an interview with Major W.E. Harris, MP. Formerly OC B Squadron 6 Cdn Armd Regt.<br />
At historical Section GS, Department of National Defence 24 January 1946.<br />
16. Williamson Letter.<br />
17. Ibid.<br />
18. Harris Interview.<br />
19. DHH Account by Major Bennett, D Company, RHC, of the Attack by the Black Watch on May-sur-Orne, 25 July 1944,<br />
as given to Capt Engler at Basse, 1 Aug 1944.<br />
20. LAC RG24 Vol.14, 109 Message Log HQ 5th Cdn Inf Bde: At 0710hrs 5th Brigade received word that “272nd Div 980&981<br />
regts came in to line Sunday/Monday night. 230 strong.”<br />
21. LAC RG24 Vol. 14, 109 Message Log HQ 5th Cdn Inf Bde.<br />
22. BWA Memo of Colonel Hutchison’s Questions and Lt-Col Eric Motzfeldt’s Answers. June 8 1945. In the memo, Motzfeldt<br />
mentions that it was members of the Camerons and the Régiment De Maisonneuve that were in the area. This recollection<br />
is slightly off, however, as the R de Mais were held in reserve farther to the north. There is plenty of evidence that puts at<br />
least one company from the Calgary Highlanders in the same area at that time.<br />
23. Ibid.<br />
24. David Bercuson, Battalion of Heroes: The Calgary Highlanders at War 1939–1945 (Calgary: Calgary Highlanders<br />
Regimental Funds Association, 1994).<br />
25. Motzfeldt Memo; LAC RG24 Vol.14, 406 Message Log HQ 2nd Cdn Armd Bde June 8 1945.<br />
26. LAC RG 24 Vol. 13, 750 Message Log Main HQ 2 Cdn Inf Div; LAC RG24 Vol.14, 406 Message Log HQ 2nd Cdn<br />
Armd Bde.<br />
27. BWA WD July 1944. A/Majors John Kemp and John Taylor were the two officers on the scene. Taylor, who was promoted<br />
to Major on 19 July, “outranked” Kemp by all of five days, as the latter was promoted to company commander on the 24th.<br />
28. Interview with Capt George Buch, Pioneer Platoon Commander, RHC, by the author, January 1993.<br />
29. When the war broke out, Griffin had just started his graduate work at Macdonald College of McGill University with the<br />
intention of obtaining a PhD in biochemistry. BWA Personnel file of Major F.P. Griffin.<br />
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