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The South African War
It is also known, the Boer War, marked Canada's first official dispatch of troops to an overseas war. Over the next three years, more than 7,000 Canadians, including 12 women nurses, served overseas. They would fight in key battles from Paardeberg to Leliefontein. -
Battle of Leliefontein
was an engagement between British and Canadian and Boer forces during the Second Boer War on 7 November 1900, at the Komati River 30 kilometres south of Belfast at the present day Nooitgedacht Dam. -
battle of harts river
During the final months of the Second Boer War, the Battle of Harts River, also known as "Battle of Boschbult", was fought between the Boers and the British forces near the confluence of the Harts River and the Brak Spruit, one of its dry tributaries. -
Battles of Gravenstafel Ridge and St. Julien
Canadian Casualties: 6,064 wounded and killed. Known as the Second Battle of Ypres or the First Gas Attack, the 1st Canadian Division found itself thrust into the position of defending a massive breach in the Allied salient around the ancient city of Ypres. -
Vimy Ridge Battle
10,602 wounded and killed. The ridge had been the site of previous defeats by both the British and French in attempts to beat the germans. The Canadians tried numerous methods, including large-scale battle rehearsal, the creeping barrage, and leap-frogging. In a blinding snowstorm on April 12, the last and most affective German position, nicknamed “The Pimple,” was captured. -
Amiens Battle
9,074 wounded and killedKnown as “The Black Day” for the German army.Corps commander Gen. Arthur Currie had tricked the enemy into believing the Canadians were actually stationed in Flanders, and thus the Germans were shocked to discover Canadian troops penetrating their defences at distances up to 8 kilometres. -
Dieppe battle
1,413 wounded and killed, 1,946 captured
At the coastal villages of Dieppe, Puys and Pourville, Canadians of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division stormed the beaches in an ill-fated raid with poorly defined objectives and shockingly limited naval, air and artillery support.The beaches on this port became a killing ground as Canadian and British. soliders attempted to force their way onto the land -
Juno Beach Battle
1,200 wounded and killed. Juno Beach was considered one of the most heavily defended of the five Normandy beaches, and Canadians overcame stiff resistance to advance farther inland on D-Day then any other Allied unit. 1,200 wounded and killed. Juno Beach was considered one of the most heavily defended of the five Normandy beaches, and Canadians overcame stiff resistance to advance farther inland on D-Day then any other Allied unit. -
Breskens Pocket Battle
600 wounded and killed. In some of the most gruelling conditions experienced by Canadians in northwest Europe, soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Division overcame stout German resistance in flooded, mud-soaked fields and over well-defended canals and dykes in what came to be known as Operation Switchback. -
Kap Young Battle
33 wounded and killed. The Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry is one of only a handful of non-American regiments to ever receive the U.S. Presidential Unit citation, because of its involvement in the incredible battle of Kap Yong.
