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Military service
Service number:
F/63711
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Death:
July 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. A. 9.
Additional information
Son of Dwight and Minnie Mosher. Husband of Martha Mosher, of Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Corporal Harold Joseph Mosher
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Letter - July 17, 1944 - p.1
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Letter - July 17, 1944 - p.2
Supported by armour, the Germans launched a counter-attack and, outnumbered and cut-off, the North Nova Scotia Highland Regiment was decimated by the German SS. When Canadian headquarters ordered the remaining men to regroup and attack again, Canadian officers refused, saying it would be murder. Canadian Brigadier, Dan Cunningham, came out to visit the battlefield, and the scene convinced him that the attack must be called off. Brigadier Cunningham is quoted, <p><i>I couldn't send them back against the SS. It would have been murder. I decided to go and see Keller and tell him it was all off. ... He ordered me to attack again. I told him that would be murder. He said if I didn't attack again, we'd both lose our jobs. I told him I had a law position waiting for me back in Kingston, and I was not about to sacrifice my Highlanders to save his job.</i>
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Corporal Harold Joseph Mosher
Digital gallery of
Corporal Harold Joseph Mosher
Digital gallery of
Corporal Harold Joseph Mosher
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 399 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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