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Henry Duncan Graham "Harry" Crerar was born in Hamilton, Ontario, on 28 April 1888, [2] the eldest child of Peter Crerar, a Scottish born lawyer and businessman, and Marion Stinson Crerar. He had three younger siblings, Alistair, Violet and Malcolm, and an older half-sister, Lillian, from his mother's first marriage. [3]
General Harry Crerar, commanding the new First Canadian Army and Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds (II Canadian Corps), planned an Anglo-Canadian offensive, Operation Totalize. [4] Totalize would rely on a night attack using the new Kangaroo armoured personnel carriers to achieve a breakthrough of German defences supported by US heavy bombers the ...
Harry Crerar Military unit The First Canadian Army ( French : 1 re Armée canadienne ) was a field army and a formation of the Canadian Army in World War II in which most Canadian elements serving in North-West Europe were assigned.
The operation was conducted by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group, primarily consisting of the First Canadian Army under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar and the British XXX Corps under Lieutenant-general Brian Horrocks.
Following the success of Operation Totalize south of Caen on August 8 and 9, General Harry Crerar, commander of the First Canadian Army, pushed south. Operation Tractable was launched to break through the German lines and capture the tactically important towns of Falaise and then the smaller towns of Trun and Chambois and to encircle large ...
Veritable had been slower and more costly than expected and the Canadian commander, General Harry Crerar, had decided on a fresh start for the operation. Three British and Canadian divisions advanced south-eastwards, capturing unprepared German positions in the Hochwald forested ridge [ de ] , before advancing on Xanten .
Billy Crystal says there’s a moment from When Harry Met Sally that fans have been quoting back to him lately — and no, it’s not the obvious one. The movie's memorable Katz’s Deli scene ...
Ninth Army—operating under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group since the Battle of the Bulge—was to cross the Roer and link up with the Canadian First Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, coming from the Nijmegen area of the Netherlands in Operation Veritable, which had started at 05:00 on 8 February.