Canadian Fallen Heroes Foundation
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#Women have played an important role in military service! From nurses to servicewomen, the strength and determination of these women have long protected Canada's rights, values, freedoms and peace worldwide. Today, we celebrate #internationalwomensday2021 and say thank you for your service at home and over seas. #StrongerTogether #ThankYou

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Did your family suffer the loss of a service person? Visit us today at https://canadianfallenheroes.com/help-wanted/ for more information on we can honour their memory and pay our respects. As a registered Canadian charity we depend on the community to create and distribute our memorials. Please consider tax deductible a gift today.

Help us honour Canada’s Fallen Heroes, every day of the year. With a small donation, our foundation can research, write and distribute a memorial print back to their home community. https://www.canadahelps.org//chariti/CanadianFallenHeroes/ Each print shares the story of a man or woman who helped build Canada, only to leave its borders to fight against injustice and spread hope for freedom and equality. Sons and Daughters, Brothers and Sisters, each of Canada’s fallen left... behind a family and community that felt the loss deeply. Help us bring these men and women home to their families. For more information, please visit us at www.canadianfallenheroes.ca or Canadian Fallen Heroes Foundation

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For #MemorialMonday, we feature a memorial from our website of an individual who lost their life in the name of peace and freedom. Today, we honour and remember Flying Lieutenant James G. Brass of Calgary, AB. For memorials from your local area, please visit the in memoriam section of our website at www.canadianfallenheroes.ca James Gladstone Brass, born July 12, 1917 at Calgary, Alberta, completed his public education at Crescent Heights High School in 1940. While living at ...Critchley, Alberta, Brass enlisted July 8, 1941 at Calgary. Brass served with the Royal Canadian Air Force attached to No. 105 (R.A.F.) Squadron (Fortis In Præliis) as a Flight Lieutenant during the Second World War. A Pathfinder squadron and equipped with Oboe, the No. 105 flew de Havilland Mosquito aircraft marking coastal batteries during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. On December 11, 1944, Flight Lieutenant James Gladstone Brass died following air operations over Bielefeld, Germany while returning to RAF Station Newmarket, Suffolk. His damaged Mosquito crashed into Longhole Stud Hill, two miles from Newmarket. Brass is commemorated at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England. Son of the late William Ewart Gladstone Brass and Sarah Evelyn (nee Bestford) Brass Gebbie; stepson of Burt Gebbie; brother of Signalman William Arthur Brass (RCNVR), Lydia Mary Colbrook and Margaret Maude Brass; he was 27 years old. Citation(s): 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, War Medal 1939-45, Operational Wings. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. Show your support by liking and sharing this memorial!

Phyllis Latour (99) - the only surviving female Special Operations Executive from WW2. She parachuted into Normandy on May 1, 1944, to operate as part of the S...cientist circuit. Fluent in French, Phyllis posed as a teenage girl whose family had moved to the region to escape the Allied bombing. She rode bicycles around the area, selling soap and chatting with German soldiers. When she obtained any military intelligence, she encoded it for transmitting by knitting codes hidden on a piece of silk that she used to tie up her hair; she would translate them using Morse code equipment. At one point, she was brought in for questioning, but the German authorities did not think to examine her hair tie, and she was released. See more

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2021! We wish our express our thanks and gratitude to the many families and companies who have supported our mission in 2020. Your gifts, support and time have been crucial in celebrating remembrance from coast-to-coast. Thank you! Please consider a gift today by visiting our website at www.canadianfallenheroes.ca

Today we remember Renwick Ritchie Canadian Fallen Heroes Foundation Private Army Wetaskiwin, Alberta... Died: Jul 30,1943 Commemorated at Cassino Memorial, Italy Renwick Ritchie, born July 19, 1913, lived in Wetaskiwin, Alberta before enlistment. Ritchie served with the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps attached to 1st Battalion, The Loyal Edmonton Regiment as a Private during the Second World War. Part of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Infantry Division, the Loyal Eddies waded ashore near Pachino, Sicily on July 10, 1943 with 26,000 other Canadian troops. Advancing north from the southern tip of Sicily, the regiment fought against Herman Goering Division’s troops during Operation Hardgate to capture Regalbuto and Adrano in late July 1943. With German troops dominating the Etna defensive line from Mount Santa Lucia, the Loyal Edmonton Regiment faced heavy casualties. On July 30, 1943, Private Renwick Ritchie died during the attack on Adrano and is commemorated at Cassino Memorial, Italy. Ritchie was 30 years old. O for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still. Alfred Lord Tennyson #LestWeForget #WeWillRememberThem #Remembrance Day

This is my great Uncle Verne Wallace Miller who gave his life June 29 1944. We will always remember.

In honor of those who served & died for our freedom #MemorialDay

I was chatting this summer with an Indigenous friend when he mentioned almost casually that his grandfather and his two brothers volunteered for the Korean War ... and had to give up their so-called Indian Status in order to enlist. A WTF moment for me. Say again - the three brothers VOLUNTEERED to put their lives on the line for this country and had to sign away official recognition of their culture and heritage? Impossible. So I vowed to do some digging. And I found it was true. And then I decided to post about the special courage of Indigenous soldiers this Remembrance Day. Some 10,000 Indigenous men and women enlisted to fight for Canada in the two World Wars. But technically you could not call them Canadian because there was no citizenship for Indigenous peoples during the First or Second World Wars or during Korea for that matter. While Indigenous peoples in the U.S. attained citizenship and the right to vote in 1925 (partly in recognition for their service in WWI), Canada withheld citizenship until 1960 when John Diefenbaker finally acted. But that sad information was just the start for me. Of the 4,000 Indigenous men and women who enlisted in WWI, none were provided the post-war benefits available to non-Indigenous vets land, loans, education. As so-called wards of the state, Indigenous veterans were considered ineligible. In fact and this is beyond callous information about government programs for WWI vets was usually posted in local Legions. And for most Indigenous vets at that time, the Legions were off limit. Edith Anderson Monture from Six Nations in Brantford (pictured here in her WWI uniform) is celebrated as Canada's first Indigenous registered nurse. And she was. But she had to take her nursing degree in the U.S., since any Indigenous person in Canada seeking education beyond grade school was required to give up Status, which she refused to do. So in WWI, as an American-educated registered nurse, she served on the front lines with the American Army Nursing Corps - note the U.S. on her shoulder. Sergeant Tommy Prince from Manitoba (pictured here with his brother Morris) was the most decorated Indigenous soldier in WWII. In fact he received medals for valour from both the Canadian and U.S. armies. And he received them at Buckingham Palace from King George. After the war and before he volunteered for Korea - he said he wanted to show that (First Nations soldiers) were as good as any white man. And he did. But he died penniless in 1977, very likely suffering PTSD. Following World War II, a truly remarkable program was announced for Indigenous veterans. They could be enfranchised! But only if they gave up their Status. It seems just 250 chose to do so. Others did not get the choice. Incredibly some Indigenous vets returned from WWII to discover they had lost their Status as a result of being absent from their reserves for more than four years, a provision of the Indian Act at that time. I know this madness is difficult to believe. My friend’s grandfather got his Status back in the mid-1950s after the Korean War. He had to apply for it. And five years later Parliament made him a citizen and allowed him to vote. On this the 60th anniversary of Indigenous Canadian veterans being permitted to call themselves Canadians, I would like to salute the First Nations, Metis and Inuit men and women who loved and bravely served this country that was so slow to reciprocate their love. Their greatness along with the greatness of all veterans should never be forgotten. And just as they fought for a better world, so must we.