HMCS Ypres was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Named after...
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class) HMCS St. Eloi (Battle class) HMCS St. Julien (Battle class) HMCS Thiepval (Battle class) HMCS Vimy (Battle class) HMCS Ypres (Battle class) HMCS Baleine...
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class) HMCS Prince Henry (F70) (Prince class) HMCS Prince Robert (F56) (Prince class) HMCS Saguenay (D79) (A class) HMCS Skeena (D59) (A class) HMCS Assiniboine (I18)...
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and close the boom and nets at Portsmouth Harbour during World War II. HMCS Ypres was a Battle class trawler used by the Royal Canadian Navy as a gate vessel...
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1940, she accidentally rammed and sank the Canadian Battle-class trawler HMCS Ypres which was acting as a boom defence vessel at Halifax, although without...
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HMCS Ypres (Battle class) HMCS CD 4 *(CD class) HMCS CD 9 * HMCS CD 10 * HMCS CD 13 * HMCS CD 14 * HMCS CD 15 * HMCS CD 16 * HMCS CD 17 * HMCS CD 18...
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Sint-Elooi (redirect from St. Eloi (Ypres))
5 km (3.1 mi) south of Ypres in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium. The former municipality is now part of Ypres. Though Sint-Elooi is the...
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Works Limited HMCS Festubert minesweeper 135 1917 Polson Iron Works Limited HMCS Ypres minesweeper 136 1917 Polson Iron Works Limited HMCS Messines minesweeper...
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Canada in World War I (section Second Battle of Ypres)
(renamed HMCS Canada) and CGS Margaret, were immediately pressed into naval service, joining HMCS Niobe, HMCS Rainbow and the two submarines HMCS CC-1 and...
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(1915) HMCS Messines (1917) minesweeper HMCS St. Eloi (1917) minesweeper HMCS St. Julien (1917) minesweeper HMCS Vimy (1917) minesweeper HMCS Ypres (1917)...
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HMCS Festubert was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following...
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HMCS Kapuskasing, HMCS Magnificent, HMCS Sioux and HMCS Rockcliffe are in the Alan Beddoe collection at Library and Archives Canada. HMCS Oriole HMCS...
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HMCS Messines was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following...
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January 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2009. Reed, Paul (28 February 2017). Walking Ypres. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-5267-0942-4. "Wellingtonian Christmas Edition...
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September 1914 (arriving at Bermuda on 3 September, 1914, aboard HMCS Canada, escorted by HMCS Niobe) to August 1915, when it was replaced by the 38th Battalion...
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the new district Number 1. 1994: The regiment was affiliated in July to HMCS Montréal, a new frigate of the Canadian Navy. 1997: The regiment was consolidated...
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particularly notable to the Canadian military include the Second Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the Second Battle of...
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Regiment Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) HMCS Calgary 4 Wing Cold Lake: 11 May 1999. HMCS Tecumseh 41 Signal Regiment 14 (Calgary) Service Battalion:...
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July 1936. On 16 July, the five transatlantic liners, escorted by HMCS Champlain and HMCS Saguenay, departed the Port of Montreal with approximately 6,200...
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HMCS St Julien was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following...
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not been added to the regimental appointments. South-West Asia Afghanistan HMCS Ville de Québec (FFH 332) The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th...
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footing. The battalion left Bermuda on 14 September aboard HMCS Canada, escorted by HMCS Niobe, which had arrived in Bermuda the day before bearing the...
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Belgian section of the front between Ploegsteert Wood and St. Eloi, south of Ypres. The 2nd Canadian Division served on the Western Front until the Armistice...
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Yarrow in memory of his son, Eric, who was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres. The gallery puts on approximately half a dozen exhibitions every year....
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disaster, but died in combat only five months later on the Western Front near Ypres. The passengers included 167 members of the Salvation Army. These travellers...
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without inflicting any damage. 21 June – The Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper HMCS Georgian rammed and sank the Royal Navy submarine HMS P.514 in the Atlantic...
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support the coalition, comprising destroyers HMCS Terra Nova and HMCS Athabaskan, and the supply ship HMCS Protecteur. The Canadian Task Group led the...
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by the Royal Regina Rifles. Collaborating with all local military units (HMCS Queen; 10th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA; 38 Signal Regiment; 38 Service...
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Island Anzac Day is held on the Sunday closest to 25 April. Hosted by the HMCS Alberni Museum and Memorial, the ceremony is held in various locations each...
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Scottish troops joined their English counterparts in all colonial wars. From H.M.C. Brown to Peter P. Pitchlynn. Re: rumors of a band of Comanches and Apaches...
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