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Sol Morris served as a Royal Canadian Engineer in the Second World War. Read and listen to his testimony below.
Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.
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Transcript
My name is Sol Morris. I joined the Black Watch Reserve in April 1940. I joined the Active Army in May of 1942. I went overseas around Christmas of '42. I embarked LST on June the 2nd, '44, and disembarked Juno Beach at 8:30 am on the 6th of June – D-Day.
I was in charge of the scout car, and I was attached to the 16th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, but I landed with Bren gun carriers of the Chaudière Regiment. I fought through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. On May the 8th, when the war
was over, I was in Germany, at that time heading for Wilhelmshaven, but we stopped. I arrived home on December 28th, 1945.
