WWII 1942 21st Cdn Tank Regiment Panoramic Photo

Originally mobilized as an infantry unit in May 1940, the regiment was re-rolled into an armoured unit in 1942 to meet the Canadian Army's pressing need for tank regiments; they in Normandy on July 24�25, 1944, equipped with Sherman tanks; they fought through Northwest Europe until the end of the war, participating in the Battle of Normandy (including the Falaise/1944 engagements), the Battle of the Scheldt, and the push into the Rhineland and Germany; they suffered 101 personnel killed and 284 wounded during the war