Word: creelman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brenton Wellas Creelman...
After the terrible battle at Falaise in August 1944, a Presbyterian padre in the Canadian Army had a deeply patriotic impulse. From a burned-out tank Major Robert Currie Creelman, M.B.E., took the bones and ashes of an unidentified Canadian, placed them in an urn, brought them home, planned a memorial shrine to all Canadian dead in World...
...after Creelman had sprinkled the soldier's ashes on the grounds of his church at Weston, Ont., the Army's principal Protestant chaplain, Colonel J. Logan-Vencta, and Brigadier Churchill Mann showed up, asked...