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HELLS CORNER

By Ava Walls

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HELL'S CORNER

What was Hell's Corner, it was one of Canada's most prominent military historians, is a reassessment of the war’s impact on Canadians both at home and abroad.
On the seven of June 1944, the North Nova Scotia Highlanders in their tanks 27^th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Sherbrooke Fusiliers), arrive to the village of Les Buissons Buron and Authie. Their D-Day objective was to reach the city of Caem. They were then overrun in Authie and Buron by savage counterattacks from the 25^th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, part of the 12^th SS HitlerJugend division. The frontline was in the village of les Buissons. Transformed into fortress, the 9^th Brigade would resist German repeated counter attacks and heavy shelling for a whole month. The Brigade never surrendered. The area near Villons-les-Buissons was dubbed “Hell’s Corner” by the Canadians. The costly but successful attacks on the Carpiquet aerodrome, launched on July 4^th would help break.

STATISTICS

In 1914 and 1919, Canada had a population of eight million over 600,000 individuals enlisted and became part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) that was sent overseas. In the CEF you would fight the most brutal and gruesome battles in the Western Front and more than 60,000 dead and 173,00 wounded.

BRIGADE MERMORIAL HELL'S CORNER

The memorial to the fallen soldiers of the 9th Canadian Brigade Memorial Hell's Corner, Villons-les-Buissons. In the memorial they have a sign with the date of the event June 7, 1944, and a sign that says in English and French "HELL'S CORNER LE COIN DE L'ENFER (7 JUIN 1944 - 7 JUILLET 1944) EN RECONNAISSANCE AUX COMBATTANTS DE LA 9EME BRIGADE CANADIENNE. IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE 9TH CANADIAN BRIGADE."

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HOME & ABROAD

The reason Hell's Corner is known as one of Canada’s most prominent military historians, is a reassessment of the war’s impact on Canadians both at home and abroad. With Canadian soldiers having to face the horrors of war and the onslaught of new weapons technology (quick-fire artillery, machine guns, poison gas). Life in the trenches at the Western Front and many tiresome, deadly and traumatic battles being fought during this time in history. Back in Canada, the war effort is in full operation. Granatstein’s look at how the war affected Canadians at home covers the important role of women in the labor force, patriotic drives, politics, the conscription crisis, and the defense of Canada.��

MARTIN F. AUGER

Martin F. Auger is the author of Prisoners of the Home Front: German POWs and "Enemy Aliens" in southern Quebec, 1940-46. He was a great source of information on the topic of Hell's corner and just war history itself. This book contains many great visual illustrations, over a 100 reproductions of photographs, posters, paintings, sketches and maps. He is an expert since he is a historian at the Candian War Museum where he gets his information from. Many of the images in his books have never been published before or came from the museum's collections.

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Why learning about Hell's Corner is important because as Canadians it is a part of our history, and it was a really and devastating event with many people die and risking their lives for the war. It is important to know since we will be traveling and going to sites where tragedies have occurred. Ad as they say, "Those who forgot the past are condemned to repeat it."

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