by Charles Cromwell Martin (Author), RoyWhitsed (Author)
A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen's Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 191
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
Published: 01 Jan 1994
ISBN 10: 155002213X
ISBN 13: 9781550022131
Charles Cromwell Martin became at twenty-four one of the youngest company seargeant-majors in the history of the Queen's Own, Canada's historic rifle regiment. In the D-Day invasion, his landing craft was among the first of 4,123 to hit the beaches of Normandy. Charlie has lived, very happily, with his war bride Vi, working for the Department of Agriculture, raising a family.