Perpetual Remembrance for the 12th Field Regiment

Nov 11, 2017 | History, Message Board, News & Events

A remembrance day service in honour for the 74 men who were killed, Roll of Honour 12th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery, C.A.S.F. (1940-1945) Family and military history segment presented by well-known speaker Glenn Wright, a family historian, former archivist...

Ordinary Canadians who made extraordinary sacrifices

Nov 10, 2017 | History, News & Events

Freedom Isn’t Free Ordinary Canadians who made extraordinary sacrifices  Why Remember? We must remember. If we do not, the sacrifice of those one hundred thousand Canadian lives will be meaningless. They died for us, for their homes and families and friends, for...

Operation “Switchback” Oct. 6th 1944

Oct 6, 2017 | History

Operation “Switchback” began at 0330 hours October 6th Excerpt from Into Action with the 12th Field – LT. T.J. Bell ” This operation across the Leopold Canal in the Scheldt Estuary was one of the toughest the Infantry had to fight. Essentially...

25 September 1944: Operation “Undergo” started

Sep 25, 2017 | History

25 September 1944: Operation MARKET-GARDEN ends. Allies: 1100 killed; 6400 are captured. For 12th Field Regiment ” Operation  “Undergo” started on September 25th and we fired a long fire plan in support. Escalles was quickly cleared by the 8th...

Change of SP’s for towed 25-pdrs

Jul 1, 2017 | History

June 1944 – excerpt from Into Action with the 12th Field : The 8th Brigade had resumed their position in reserve of the 7th and 9th Brigades. Our FOO ‘s were recalled leaving one OP out with the 9th Brigade. A great deal has happened during the month of...

D-Day 12th Cdn Field Regt first unit in the div to bring down arty fire

Jun 6, 2017 | History

WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY – 12th CDN FD REGT Summary of Events and Information D-Day-War-Diary-12thField June 4 Troops were loaded onto their LCTs. It was a tight fit but all were loaded without incident. The wind blew up in the afternoon and gale warnings...