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Cape Breton Highlanders

Newspaper Clippings - Second World War Era - Dispatches and Articles From the War Zones

This section contains one newspaper clipping dispatch dated November 2, 1944, by Canadian press war correspondent Doug How. It pertains to fighting by the Cape Breton Highlanders on the Adriatic Front in northern Italy in the vicinity of the village of Fiumicino. The article mentions help they received by an Italian priest. Many Cape Breton Highlanders are mentioned by name in the article.

The lieutenant mentioned in the article as being killed was probably Lieut. John Cyril Campbell of the Cape Breton Highlanders, who was killed in action on September 28, 1944.

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