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Dear C&E Family: Please read exciting stories about important events and updates from 77 Line Regiment in Dec 22 newsletter: The Cable – Volume 6 Issue 3
Signalman Stanley Dovauo will be celebrating his 100th Birthday, come 19 Nov 2022!Having enlisted in Aug of ‘41, Sig Dovauo was deployed to England in preparations for operations in continental Europe. He met his sweetheart Laura Priddle of Sussex and married in Dec of 1943.Headed off to France in July 1944 with 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, 4th LAAA Regiment (RCA). He ended the war in Bremerhaven and returned to Canada in August 1946 and discharged in Vernon, BC 1946.Stanley relocated back to the UK with his bride, where he presently resides in North Devon, England. Please send your notes of congratulations to Stanley’s Grandson – [email protected]
Captain Russell Storring, awarded the Military Personnel Generation Group Commanders Commendation for his work in Decentralized Recruit Training. Citation: Captain Storring was a success enabler in the establishment of the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School Detachment Borden. From July 2020 to June 2021, their invaluable basic training knowledge and superior leadership skills contributed to maintaining the CFB Borden institutional credibility and delivery of satellite serials of basic training. Their advice was sought at all levels to assist in adapting to the new mandate of decentralized basic training delivery. As a result, Base Borden was able to effectively contribute to the basic training force generation mandate. – Signed by CWO J.L.S. Parent and BGen K.D. Brodie Commendation presented by LCol Earle Hatt, CO 36 Signal Regiment.
C&E week has kicked off with raising of our Branch flag and a brief of our strong history of RCCS and the North. Blueberry cupcakes with grey coloured icing to enjoy. Our Sr Sig Offr (CELE) is our JTFN Comd, BGen Godbout.
The Netherlands 2023 Battlefield Tour (28 Apr – 7 May 23) FLASH SAVE $1162pp on Tour, first-come-first-served More information click here: Netherlands 2023/Itinerary Netherlands 2023 the “75th+3 Anniversary of Liberation” Victory Tour 28 April – 7 May, 2023 Last day for tour deposit with Merit Travel: 30 September 2022 FLASH We have 4 Tour seats left at a discount of up to $1162pp, first-come-first-served. Contact LCol (Ret’d) Hugh Janssen 613-590-0565 [email protected] to register ASAP. FLASH We are proud to launch the ‘Netherlands 2023′, the latest in our series of battlefield study tours, to commemorate the legacy of our C&E Branch predecessors during the liberation of The Netherlands. Signallers ‘got comms thru’ as Canadians fought over the Channel, on the coast of France & Belgium, and dykes of the Netherlands. We helped liberate the Dutch and rebuild their lives. Canadian signalmen connected the enemy to General Foulkes for the surrender.