HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1944-12-07, Page 3TRIPLETS: ALL BOY SCOUTS
Believed to be Canada's only triplet Boy Scouts, herd are, left to
right, Charles, Edward and Henry Mansell, who are members
of the 44th Windsor, Ont., Boy Scout Troop at St. Anne's Church.
The triplets are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mansell, of Tecum-
seh, near Windsor. They were born in 1932.
`TROJAN HORSE'—MADE IN GERMANY
An Allied flyer examines a wcoden horse, one of a number of
dummy farm animals which Germans scattered over an airfield in
Holland to deceive Allied bombers. Our airmen weren't fooled
for, long.
ALLIED SQUEEZE PLAY
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Map shows where 'French Army units, in a 19 -mile advance, crashed
into ,the heart of Strasbourg splitting the German front in Eastern
France, while General Patton's tanks drive to within 14 miles of
Saarbrucken from the captured Metz area. In the south, mean-
while, French First Army forces drive toward Colmar to seal off
the Nazi escape route across the Rhine.
ANOTHER CANADIAN WINS VICTORIA CROSS
Major David Vivian Curie of Moose Jaw, Sask., and Owen Sound, Ont., whose bravery and leadership in heavy fighting near Falaise
have won him the Victoria Cross. The pictures were taken in a fighting zone. They show, left, a closeup of Major Currie, and right, the
officer atop a tank.
Major David Vivian Currie, 32, of Moose Jaw, Sask., and Owen Sound, Ont., an officer of the South Alberta Reconnaissance Regiment,
became the seventh Canadian to win the Victoria Cross of this war for blocking and holding one of the main German escape routes
out of the Falaise pocket, Defence Headquarters announced.
A peacetime automobile mechanic and welder, Major Currie displayed the heroism that won him the Empire's highest award for
valor in an action which started in the village of St. Lambert sur Dives Aug. 20 and continued for three days and three nights.
The citation said that all the officers under his command were either killed or wounded and "when his force was finally relieved, and
he was satisfied that the turnover was complete, he fell asleep on his feet and collapsed".
Major Currie first attacked and seized the village which was a key point of the Chambois-Trun escape route for the remnants of
two German armies cut off in the Falaise pocket. He held it through three days and nights of continuous fighting, hurling back repeat
ed enemy attempts to force a breakthrough. His strategy was successful in blocking the German escape route.
NEW CHAMP
Danny Webb, Canadian (overseas)
featherweight champ, poses here
for a Canadian Army cameraman.
He recently won a three round de-
cision over world flyweight cham-
pion Jackie Paterson and London,
England sport circles predict a
great future for the dark skinned
lad from Montreal.
RALSTON'S SON BACK FOR STAFF COURSE
War Not Over Yet: Captain Stuart B. Ralston, son of Col. J. L. Ralston, C.M.G., D.S.O., former
minister of national defence ,who resigned on November 1 from the King 'Government, told reporters
"just tell the folks back here the war isn't over yet" at the Canadian Pacific Railway's Windsor Station,
Montreal, when he returned from overseas recently to go on a staff course at Royal Military College,
Kingston. Overseas since January of 1942 when he landed in England as a lieutenant, Capt, Ralston,
shown here accepting a cup of coffee fronii one of the volunteer workers of Canadian Legion War
Services, came back from P.C.A. Headquarters, grid, Canadian Corps, with troops returned from
overseas.
DITCHED!
French infantryman has this Nazi where he wants him—in a ditch
near Belfort, France. In bullet -riddled car are bodies of three of
German's comrades whose flight ended in sudden death.
HE'S A BRAVE PIGEON
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This is a new picture of General
H. D. G. Crerar, C.B., D.S.O.,
General Officer Commanding -in -
Chief, First Canadian Army, who
has been promoted to that rank
from Lieut. -General.
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congratulates Pigeon Gustav, after she had presented the bird with
the Dickens award for bravery in ceremonies in London, Eng.
The award was made in behalf of the Allied Forces Mascot Club
for bring back the first message from the Normandy beaches.