Share on Facebook
Share on X
Share by Email
Share on Google Classroom
![Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845]({"id":"88455b5b-fbd3-46ae-b5d1-2a14ea776544","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"6811_original","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":122714,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-02T22:41:30.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-02T22:41:30.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #6811","alt":"Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845","caption":"Infantrymen of The West Nova Scotia Regiment in a Universal Carrier en route to Rotterdam are surrounded by Dutch civilians celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands.\r\rLocation: Netherlands: Date: May 9, 1945. Photographer: Gilroy, G. Barry., Photographer\r\rMikan Number: 3203845","creator":"Memory Project Image #6811 - Veteran #2993","source":"Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/6811_original.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/6811_original.jpg","credit":"Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845","pivot":{"mediable_id":"1945be56-20c1-4788-8c98-20f184387940","media_id":"88455b5b-fbd3-46ae-b5d1-2a14ea776544","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":1},"translations":[{"id":"23823545-7c4d-4cf1-a32e-e5f84d5f458c","media_id":"88455b5b-fbd3-46ae-b5d1-2a14ea776544","title":"Memory Project Image #6811","alt":"Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845","caption":"Infantrymen of The West Nova Scotia Regiment in a Universal Carrier en route to Rotterdam are surrounded by Dutch civilians celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands.\r\rLocation: Netherlands: Date: May 9, 1945. Photographer: Gilroy, G. Barry., Photographer\r\rMikan Number: 3203845","creator":"Memory Project Image #6811 - Veteran #2993","source":"Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845","locale":"en","credit":"Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845"},{"id":"716581f9-1773-4932-b4e7-b81600a4fdb9","media_id":"88455b5b-fbd3-46ae-b5d1-2a14ea776544","title":"Memory Project Image #6811","alt":"Biblioth\u00e8que et Archives Canada, Nombre Mikan: 3203845","caption":"Fantassin du <em>West Nova Scotia Regiment <\/em>dans une carri\u00e8re universelle en route pour Rotterdam sont entour\u00e9s par des civils hollandais c\u00e9l\u00e9brant la lib\u00e9ration des Pays-Bas.\rLieu: Pays-Bas; Date: 9 mai 1945; Photographes: Gilroy, G. Barry.","creator":"Memory Project Image #6811 - Veteran #2993","source":"Biblioth\u00e8que et Archives Canada, Nombre Mikan: 3203845","locale":"fr","credit":"Biblioth\u00e8que et Archives Canada, Nombre Mikan: 3203845"}]} "Memory Project Image #6811")
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845
Infantrymen of The West Nova Scotia Regiment in a Universal Carrier en route to Rotterdam are surrounded by Dutch civilians celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands.
Location: Netherlands: Date: May 9, 1945. Photographer: Gilroy, G. Barry., Photographer
Mikan Number: 3203845
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan Number: 3203845
![]({"id":"8b87c34d-a66d-4fa9-b6d6-2d8f4d7bb0aa","disk":"s3","directory":"The-Memory-Project\/image","filename":"11966_original","extension":"jpg","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","aggregate_type":"image","size":122714,"variant_name":null,"original_media_id":null,"created_at":"2022-08-03T03:22:11.000000Z","updated_at":"2022-08-03T03:22:11.000000Z","title":"Memory Project Image #11966","alt":"","caption":"","creator":"Memory Project Image #11966 - Veteran #2993","source":"","conversion_urls":{"original":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/11966_original.jpg"},"url":"https:\/\/d2ttikhf7xbzbs.cloudfront.net\/The-Memory-Project\/image\/11966_original.jpg","credit":"","pivot":{"mediable_id":"1945be56-20c1-4788-8c98-20f184387940","media_id":"8b87c34d-a66d-4fa9-b6d6-2d8f4d7bb0aa","mediable_type":"App\\Models\\Article","tag":"gallery","order":2},"translations":[{"id":"b1116873-3dfc-4ce0-a04e-2cc74b29d12b","media_id":"8b87c34d-a66d-4fa9-b6d6-2d8f4d7bb0aa","title":"Memory Project Image #11966","alt":"","caption":"","creator":"Memory Project Image #11966 - Veteran #2993","source":"","locale":"en","credit":""},{"id":"a34365df-9f97-4442-b752-083b1e688607","media_id":"8b87c34d-a66d-4fa9-b6d6-2d8f4d7bb0aa","title":"Memory Project Image #11966","alt":"","caption":"","creator":"Memory Project Image #11966 - Veteran #2993","source":"","locale":"fr","credit":""}]} "Memory Project Image #11966")
We were digging out trenches, we left our guns on the ground, naturally, and I don’t know yet how those Germans got behind us. And they come ahead and naturally they had us, we had no guns at the time. And they were right happy, they were singing and everything. They had quite a bunch of us. I don’t know yet how we left our guns far away from us. But you couldn’t dig with a gun in your hand.
So anyway, they took us along. I guess they didn’t know where they were themselves. So they took us in “B” Company, toward “B” Company. In “B” Company, one of the guys there, one of the Bren gun men, opened fire above our heads, and we got down. We took them prisoner.