This week in history

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Date	Event
16 Apr 1941	BEM to Pte Jonathan Gibb for holding up debris for three hours from a buried woman during Blitz
17 Apr 1945	Battle Honour, Apeldoorn. 48th and RCR enter Apeldoorn, abandoned by Germans.
17 Apr 1964	Change of Command from LCol J. M. Lowndes, CD to LCol P.A.G. Cameron, CD
17 Apr 2002	Cpl Ainsworth Dyer, PPCLI, killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire of US Plane. Dyer enlisted and trained with 48th Highlanders before enlisting in regular force.
19 Apr 1945	Able Coy, in command of arnoured 'Flying column', advance 100 km to Harderwijk on Zeider Zee. Link with 5th Armoured Division. Then returned to Stroe, near Apeldoorn.
19 Apr 1997	MWO W. Darling and 4 Highlanders serve in Manitoba when Red River floods. Over 8600 CF personnel involved from 19 April to 13 May
20 Apr 1894	Undress Uniform adopted and worn by Company sergeants, bugle and pioneer sgts. Second uniform photo Marching Order Undress 1901-1914; Review order 1920-1839, 1945-1956
20 Apr 2015	Second battle of Ypres. Click HERE for more info.
21 Apr 1892	1st Public Parade by regiment before 50,000 of Toronto's 200,000 population PM Robert Ireland led; Bands of QOR and 10th Royal Grenadiers support
21 Apr 1917	Battle Honour, Scarpe 1917, 1918. 1917 part of battle of Arras. 9 April - 4 May. Also 26 to 30 August 1918 as part of 100 Days offensive. Hindenburg Line.
22 Apr 2011	Memorial for Observatory Ridge - Mont Sorrel commemorated in City of Ypres.
22 Apr 2015	German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line. Click HERE for more info.