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Cape Breton Highlanders

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

This section contains one newspaper clipping dispatch dated September 28, 1944. It pertains to the assault by the Cape Breton Highlanders on August 30, 1944, to take Hill 120, near the village of Montecchio, on the Adriatic Front in Italy. Many Cape Breton Highlanders are mentioned by name in the article, including Pte. Alphonse Hickey from Sydney, NS, who was killed in the attack.

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