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Remembering the War Years
Through Photos
Canadians at War July 1944
July 2, 1944 (France)
Sergeant Jack Hickman, 6th Field Company
Royal Canadian Engineers , disarming A
German mine.
Sergeant John Lockhart Hickman, (K/88012)
was born September 6, 1911, in Portage la
Prairie, Manitoba. He enlisted on April 23,
1940 at Esquimalt, British Columbia.
He was killed on October 31, 1944.
On 30 October 1987, the village of
Retranchement unveiled a Remembrance
Stone for Canadian Sapper, Sergeant John
Lockhart Hickman, killed helping to erect a
Bailey bridge during the Canadians' advance.
He buried in the Adegem Canadian War
Cemetery.
July 3, 1944 (Normandy, France)
Sapper Joe Iaci 6th Field Company Royal
Canadian Engineers, coming out of his dugout.
July 4, 1944 (France)
Machine-Gunners of the Cameron Highlanders of
Ottawa, in action near Carpiquet, France
July 6, 1944 (Carpiquet, France)
Regimental Sergeant-Major Antonio Lamontagne
and Captain Pierre Labrecque, both of Le
Régiment de la Chaudière, sitting outside a
church destroyed by shellfire in Carpiquet,
France.
July 7, 1944 (England)
Private Helen Brymer Canadian Women's Army
Corps, watching Private Dorothy Lowry check the
battery of her vehicle at the Chelsea and
Cricklewood Garage, England.
July 8, 1944 (Carpiquet France)
Lieutenant Alex Miller of Le Régiment de la
Chaudière.
Lieutenant Alexandre Miller,
(K/88012) was born
September 1, 1920, in
Bersimis, Quebec. He
enlisted on May 13, 1941 at
Quebec.
Lieutenant MIller (age 24) was killed in
action on August 8, 1944.
He is buried in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian
War Cemetery, Frannce