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The service and sacrifice of Canadians who fought in the Dieppe Raid will never be forgotten. To this day, their legacy is the peace and freedom we enjoy #Dieppe75
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August 8-9, 1918-Lieutenant Jean Brillant of Quebec earned the Victoria Cross during the Battle of Amiens #ThrowbackThursday
August 8, 1918, Lieutenant Jean Brillant captured an enemy machine gun holding up his company’s advance. Later that day, Brillant led a successful attack on enemy positions after his company’s progress was again checked by machine gun fire. The following day, he led yet another courageous attack against a German field gun. Sadly, Brillant died on August... 10, 1918, as a result of the wounds he had suffered in
the fighting at Amiens. Photo: Department of National Defence
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Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Tommy George Prince (on the right) is Canada’s most-decorated Indigenous war ve...teran. Born October 25, 1915 at Petersfield, Manitoba, he joined the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry on June 3, 1940. He did well in the army, first as a Field Engineer and then with the Canadian Parachute Battalion. He was among a select group chosen to train with a specialized assault team, the 1st Special Service Force. They became known to the enemy as the Devil’s Brigade.
In the Devil's Brigade, Tommy Prince became an expert in reconnaissance. He once posed as a local farmer to repair a severed communications wire—in full view of enemy troops.
Learn more about the “Prince of the Brigade”: http://www.veterans.gc.ca/…/aborigin…/native-soldiers/prince
Check out more fascinating facts with the #Canada150 #DefenceMap: https://caf-fac.ca/defence-150-map/
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BREAKING NEWS: The Invictus Spirit Flame was lit today during a moving ceremony at the Afghanistan Presidential Palace in Kabul. The flame represents the wounde...d warriors’ spirit that despite injury or illness still burns bright, visible in their journey to and participation in the highly competitive Invictus Games. The Invictus Spirit Flame lighting ceremony is the first in a sequence of events retracing the journey home that many Invictus Games competitors have endured – from injury, to treatment, to the return home and their ensuing road to recovery. Photos to come.
Next stop: Landstuhl Regional Medical Centre in Germany, a key surgical treatment centre for wounded soldiers!
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Today is #NationalPeacekeepersDay! 
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Thanks to all of the Canadians who dedicated their lives to create peace and a safer world! 
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#DYK the rocky beach and seawall made it very hard for Canadian tanks to advance during the Dieppe Raid. #Dieppe75
The Dieppe Raid took an appalling toll on the almost 5,000 Canadians who landed on the shores of occupied France August 19, 1942. Some 916 Canadian servicemen died as a result of this operation. The large cobblestones that make up the beach made it very hard for the Canadian tanks to manoeuver and even got stuck in the treads and broke them, leaving tank crews stationary targets. Pictured are German soldiers examining a damaged tank in the aftermath of the raid. Photo: Library and Archives Canada.
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A ceremony is being held to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid. The Dieppe Raid was a Canadian led assault on a German occupied town of Dieppe, France in 1942. This was the single bloodiest day for Canadians in the Second World War. The event will feature a recount of the Dieppe Raid by historian Béatrice Richard and the unveiling of a new commemorative plaque to honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice at Dieppe, France.
More information: http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/events/details/8798
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A ceremony is being held to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid. The Dieppe Raid was a Canadian led assault on a German occupied town of Dieppe, France in 1942. This was the single bloodiest day for Canadians in the Second World War. The event will remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice by reading the names of the 17 members of the King’s Own Calgary Regiment who were killed at Dieppe.
More information: http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/events/details/8797
August 9, 1945-Lieutenant (Naval) Robert “Hammy” Gray earned the Victoria Cross while sinking a Japanese warship #WorldWarWednesday
Robert Hampton Gray was born in Trail, British Columbia in 1917 and joined the Royal Canadian Naval
Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He was serving as a fighter pilot on a British aircraft carrier in the Pacific when he earned the Victoria Cross. Lieutenant Gray was attacking a Japanese escort vessel in the face of heavy anti-aircr...aft fire and was hit. Despite the damage, he continued the attack. He sank the enemy ship but Gray’s plane went down at sea, and he was killed. Photo: Department of National Defence
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Take the UN’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples as an opportunity to reflect on the rich cultures and diversity of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
August 9, 1974- nine Canadian peacekeepers were killed in the Middle East; worst one-day toll in our long peacekeeping history #RememberThem
Nine Canadian Armed Forces members serving with the United Nations in the Middle East died when their plane was shot down by a Syrian missile. Killed were Captain George Foster, Captain Keith Mirau, Captain Robert Wicks, Master Corporal Ron Spencer, Corporal Bruce Stringer, Master Warrant Officer Gaston Landry, Master Warrant Officer Cyril Korejwo, Corporal Michael Simpson and Corporal Morris Kennington. Pictured is the Buffalo transport plane that would be shot down that day. Submitted photo
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Today is #NationalPeaceKeepersDay. We remember the sacrifices and achievements of our brave peacekeepers #RememberThem
Canada has an enviable reputation around the world as being a nation willing to stand up in the cause of peace and freedom. Canadian service men and women have taken part in a variety of international peace support efforts over the years. To honour this proud tradition of service, August 9 is annually observed as National Peacekeepers’ Day in our country.
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#OTDH - August 9, 1974
Nine Canadian Armed Forces personnel were killed on United Nations Flight 51 on August 9, 1974. Their Canadian Forces Buffalo, 115461, wa...s on a scheduled supply flight from Ismailia, Egypt, via Beirut, Lebanon, to Damascus, Syria. Shortly after crossing the Lebanese-Syrian border into Syria, three surface-to-air missiles were fired at the Buffalo by Syrian forces, destroying the aircraft and causing the deaths of all aboard.
When Flight 51 was destroyed, it resulted in the largest single-incident loss of life in the history of Canadian peacekeeping operations. The men who died that day are commemorated in the 7th Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower, on the Memorial Wall at Peacekeepers Park in Calgary, Alberta, and on a monument at Buffalo Park, also in Calgary.
The Parliament of Canada proclaimed that: "Throughout Canada, in each and every year, the ninth of August shall be known as National Peacekeepers' Day". The proclamation received Royal Assent on June 18, 2008.
📷 Buffalo 461 on the ramp in Beirut, Lebanon in 1974 prior to its fateful flight.
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Shoutout to retired PO 1 Filiatreault on #InternationalCatDay. Thanks for nurturing the #Halifax dockyard cats!
We remember Private Alphonse G. Belanger of Manitoba who lost his life August 19, 1942, during the Dieppe Raid. #Dieppe75
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Alphonse Gaudias Belanger was born in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1920. He enlisted in the Canadian Army in Winnipeg June 11, 1940, and would serve with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada during the Second World War. Private Belanger lost his life August 19, 1942 as a result of wounds suffered during the Dieppe Raid. He was 22 years old and is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen, France. Pictured is Belanger in England in 1941.
