D-Day Dodgers of Canada

A tribute slideshow to Canada's not forgotten veterans who fought in Sicily and Italy.

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[ranna16]

I don't get why there are no pics of the Agira cemetary. The only cemetary in Italy with only CDN soldiers in it. It's worth going in sicily just to see it. It also makes you realized how this battle was really a david and goliath. When you see the mountains were the German were hidding and the open view they had of the coming ennemie you wounder how they did it.

[PPCLIcanuck]

Thank you for comments and for viewing my video ! When I made the video almost 5 years ago I didn't have a photo of the cemetery. I have never been to Sicily or Italy. I'm hoping to do it one day but life keeps interfering with that plan. The important thing for me was to get the message out there that Canada played a very important part in a campaign, that is for most of the world, unknown. We're not the greatest at standing up and saying "Hey, look what we did!"

Regards

John

[BenBarfuss]

Who is singing this? It is down-underlying not a Canadian accent.

[PPCLIcanuck]

@BenBarfuss,

It's Sod's Opera.

[p1ckerings]

this song should have been banned like it was orginally this campaign was no holiday god rest the fallen if wasnt for these boys the d-day campaign would have failed.

[PPCLIcanuck]

Why? It was a protest song that was dripping with sarcasm. It doesn't belittle their efforts.

[Jourell1]

@p1ckerings a late response to this but i have to say it- if you know the history of the song, its actually just the opposite of what you think it is. it isn't sarcasm belittling the soldiers, its sarcasm BY the soldiers towards someone who belittled them.

Lady Nancy Astor is said to have made some very controversial comments regarding the Normandy campaign. Specifically calling the soldiers D day dodgers, suggesting that they went to Italy to avoid the "real" fight in Europe

[gaconnochie]

"you're thinking of Hamish Henderson" Yeagh you are right. Hamish Imlach sang the song and there is a version of his on youtube. I suspect the other poster got him confused with Henderson

[ecadre1]

@1958wooly I fear you have the wrong Hamish. Hamish Imlach was born in 1940, you're thinking of Hamish Henderson.

Incidentally, Hamish Henderson did not write this song, it was written by a British Lance-Sergeant serving in Italy, with many other verses composed by other soldiers.

Hamish Henderson collected these verses from soldiers after the war.

[gaconnochie]

" It is down-underlying not a Canadian accent" It is not specifically a Canadian song. Written originally by a British soldier and various subsequent verses collected by Hamish Henderson the Scottish folklorist and songwriter

[thinkingguy87]

@PPCLIcanuck Have some interesting photos that might interest you. Visited with the Gregg Centre in 2009. Let me know what you need.

[thinkingguy87]

@liberal20111 and since the 1940s, we've learned about the lower case.

[Cr33perville]

@liberal20111 STOP SPEAKING IN CAPS

[DPRAE]

For ranna 16...My Dad was a D-Day Dodger. He love this song!! He told me it was for that Bitch in Britan with the big mouth and no clue!!!