The CANLOAN program (or the Canada Loan program) was a scheme created in 1944 to loan officers from the Canadian Army to serve in British Army units....
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named the first honorary president of the CANLOAN Army Officers' Association, a veterans association of CANLOAN officers. In 1944, Gregg was appointed President...
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resorted to using explosive detection dogs to find them. In his book A CANLOAN Officer, Rex Fendick, serving with the 2nd Battalion of The Middlesex Regiment...
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Kingdom and the CANLOAN Army Officers Association erected a memorial on 3 June 1961 in Ottawa, Ontario dedicated to the memory of the 128 CANLOAN fatalities...
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of the Order of Canada. Four Calgary Highlanders officers served in the CANLOAN project during the Second World War, two were captured at Arnhem, one was...
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Harry Crerar Other History of Canadian foreign policy Canadian pipe mine CANLOAN Organization of Canadian Army rifle sections during World War II List of...
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Wars". Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved 16 March 2011. "CANLOAN Monument". canada.ca. Government of Canada. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 2...
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Sterling Publishing Company. ISBN 9781586637620. Fendick, Rex F. Diary of a CANLOAN Officer (with the Middlesex Regt in NW Europe 1944–5) (self-published ed...
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History, Part 1. Hart. ISBN 9780948527050. Smith, Wilfred (1992). Code word CANLOAN. Dundurn Press. ISBN 9781550021677. Tout, Ken (2003). In the Shadow of...
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attaché to the Canadian joint staff mission. Letson helped conceive the CANLOAN scheme while visiting Canadian Military Headquarters in London in October...
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tree was installed on the grounds of Earnscliffe, in commemoration of the CANLOAN program and its participants. On October 4, 2011, a fire damaged the building...
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Service Allegiance Canada Service / branch Canadian Army British Army (CANLOAN) Years of service 1940–1971 Rank Captain Unit Gordon Highlanders 1st Canadian...
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supplement the British Army with junior officers, Adam helped devise the CANLOAN program in 1944; which saw 673 Canadian officers serve in British units...
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April 1944, the division received several Canadian officers as part of the CANLOAN scheme (a project that saw the Canadian Army loan 673 officers, mostly...
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