The Misplaced Regiment

[John McGillivray]

I found this gem in “West Novas, a history of the West Nova Scotia Regiment” by Thomas H. Raddall.

The West Novas landed in the UK on the 30th of Dec. 1939. Almost a year later….

“On Dec. 21st (1940) the Records Office at Canadian Army HQ, London, provided the Regiment with the best joke of the season, a solemn notification that the West Nova Scotia Regiment had never gone through Orders as transferred to England, and therefore officially were still in Canada. It was pleasant to think that on paper at least the boys would spend Christmas at home.”