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D-Day Canadian War Veterans Gallery



Lt-Col John Anderson, MC, CD, Canadian Chaplain Service (P)

Colonel Anderson had been attached to the Highland Light Infantry in October of 1943, and is believed to have been the youngest Padre, (at the age of 30), to go ashore on D-Day with his unit. He says they were "bogged down" for almost a month, and his main task was to go out with the stretcher-bearers bringing wounded from where they were dug in, back to the Regimental Aid Post. He was awarded the Military Cross, (gallantry in the face of the enemy) in the battle for Buron about a month after D-Day, and was awarded a bar to that Cross about a month later. But he says both MCs were actually for the stretcher-bearers who "never got the praise they deserved"; he "just gets to wear the medal".

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