The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
 
   
 
 
 
Contact

Home
 
Regiment Home
Colours
Battles Honours
Territorial Battalions
Regimental Chapels
VC
Colonels
Commanding Officers
Badges & Insignia
Uniforms
Photo Albums
Documents
The Regimental March
Timeline
Museum
Newspapers
Boer War
2nd Bn Muster Roll 1885
Band 1898
World War 1 Misc
Roll of Honour - WW2
CANLOAN
Research Interests
Medals
Army List
DCLI Books
Artillary Volunteers
Odd Bits
Military Links
 
2nd Bn Hong Kong 1913/1914
DCLI in POW Friederichsfeld
 
Harry Patch WW1
Harry Patch Cider
Harry Patch Degree
 
Guestbook
Forum
 
 

"Few people, except the surviving participants, have ever heard of CANLOAN, the code word for an arrangement during the Second World War by which a number of Canadian Army officers participated in the fighting in northwest Europe between D-Day 1944, and VE-Day 1945, by voluntarily serving in regiments of the British Army. The ferocity of the fighting in which these officers were engaged is indicated by the extent of their casualties (75 percent) and the number of awards for gallantry - nearly 100, more than 40 of them Military Crosses. At the special request of the War Office, a number of RCOC officers also volunteered to serve under the same conditions as the more numerous infantry officers" from Code Word CANLOAN by Wilfred I. Smith, Dundurn Press, Toronto & Oxford, 1992. 346 pages. Includes photo of troops in the 43rd Division at Hill 112 on 10 July 1944. This was a hotly contested battlefield that saw many CANLOAN casualties.

This list of officers served with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

CANLOAN Roster

Surname Name(s) Rank Honour Roll Decorations Regiment
ARTHURS Ralph B. Lieut. k/a 11-7-44 5 DCLI
COMOLLI Benoit D. J. Lieut. k/a 11-7-44 5 DCLI
GAUTHIER Joseph H. J. Maj. MID 5 DCLI, HQ 214 Inf. Bde.
HARDY Marcel W. Lieut. 5 DCLI
RUSH Mathew C. P. Lieut. k/a 9-7-44 5 DCLI

Arthurs, Ralph B. on pages vii, 16, 36, 77, 78
Comolli, Beniot D.J. on pages vii, 77-8
Gauthier, Joseph H. J. on pages 77, 83, 92, 129, 262, 265
Hardy, Marcel W. on page 77
Rush, Mathew C. P. on pages vii, 77

top

 
Monday, 19 December, 2005 18:05

Site by Severn Beach