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Old 19-09-08, 15:40
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Hi Helen;

From what I've found, your father's Struck-off-Strength (from 10 CBRB) to the 9th Cdn Fd Sqn date of 10 Sep 44 is accurate. On approx 7 Sep 44, Lieutenant R.B.W. Pyke of the 9th Cdn Fd Sqn was wounded and evacuated, this is probably the officer casualty that your father replaced, there was not another officer casualty that required to be evacuated suffered by the 9th Cdn Fd Sqn until early on the morning of 14 Sep 44, by which time your father would have already have been with the Squadron. At this time (approx 7 to 10 Sep 44), 9th Cdn Fd Sqn were located in the area of Moerbrugge, Belgium, engaged in bridging the canal at this point (Moerbrugge).
Hi Helen;

In regards to my previous post, with his SOS date from the X4 List being 16 Sept 44 and his TOS date to 9 Fd Sqn being 17 Sept 44, this means that your father joined the Squadron while "the 4th Armoured Division worked along the edge of the flooded area, which was more or less bounded by the Leopold Canal, and around behind the Braakman, an inlet west of the Ghent-Terneuzen canal. Several bridges had to be built during this period, (which was from 16 to 21 Sep 44) the most important being a pair by the 9th Field Squadron across locks at Sas van Gent. The spans were 60-foot double-single and 110-foot triple-single and they made possible a junction with the Polish Armoured Division, which had just cleared the south bank of the Scheldt from Antwerp to Terneuzen.

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