By Major F.O. Lewis, M.B.E.,
Commanding “C” Squadron, Elgin Regiment

By Major R.W. Rankin, M.B.E.
Commanding “E” Squadron, Elgin Regiment

I left the Elgins in France to go with the British Army and Major Stewart Thomson, now in Toronto, took over command of “E” Squadron. It was in April a year ago that I learned the Squadron was over the border in Germany in a town called Cleve. I happened to be in that vicinity and decided to pay them a call. I arrived in the midst of one of the most amusing demonstrations I have ever witnessed.

“D” Looks Back on Job Well
Done; Hardships, Fun, Hard
Work and a Great Deal to See
 
Landed in Normandy in July, 1944, Then Until the End of Hostilities Helped in Chase Against Germans; Kept 14th Division Supplied with Reinforcements and Tanks
 
By Major W.B. Brodie
Commanding “D” Division, Elgin Regiment

A record of over 4,000 reinforcement personnel posted forward to armoured units, plus more than 800 armoured fighting vehicles, including tanks of various types, self propelled guns, flame throwers and armoured personnel carriers, is something for the members of ”D” Squadron, 25th Canadian Armoured Delivery Regiment, to look back on with pride in a job well done. Add to this the hardships, fun and hard work involved, plus the experience of seeing a lot of country and people in traveling from the coast of Normandy through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Altogether, enough happenings to give members of this squadron plenty to reminisce over in the years to come. 

A” Squadron, With Good
Men and True, Moved Fast, Far Along the Italian Front
 
Was in the Initial Assault on Gustav and Hitler Lines; Worked Part of Time as Unit Under British Command. Kept Constantly on Move During Winter of 1943-44
 
By Major E.G. King
Commanding “A” Squadron, Elgin Regiment
 
During the Italian campaign, doing the east coast the first winter and then starting from below Cassino and finishing up in the foothills of the Northern Apennines. And, if I were asked to name one of the busiest men in the Squadron during our Italian interlude I think I would nominate Trooper Doug Keith, the postal clerk. The amount of mail that passed through his hands was large and usually about 90 per cent of it had to be re-addressed, which meant a lot of work for one man – but Doug did a good job of it.

by Major Wilfred D. King
Commanding “A” Squadron, Elgin Regiment
 
The Elgins – or some of the Elgins – first got into action in Sicily. There are incidents – highlights and lowlights – connected with that campaign that I am sure few of the boys will ever forget. Time has a tendency to make them amusing but there weren’t so funny when they occurred.   We left the British Isles on June 25, 1943 and finally reached Algiers – and still we didn’t know where we were going. Then the invasion was on and we were taken down near the island of Pantellaria. Every morning, for three mornings, we’d wake up and see some island out in front of us.

We seemed to be going around in circles. The next thing we knew we were in Malta, and sat there for a day. Then on the night of July 15 we started for Syracuse and were going to land. We knew where we were going then.