Rollins, Bruce Grey

Name: Rollins, Bruce Grey

Nationality: Canadian

Rank: SGT

Second World War

Drill Instructor at Canadian Forces Base Borden ( CFB Borden).

Regiment/Service: The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (MG)
The Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment

During World War II, the Canadian Regiment joined with battalions of the Black Watch from all parts of the Commonwealth in the struggle to defeat the Axis Powers. The Regiment first saw action at Dieppe, where its “C” Company and Mortar Platoon were key components of the assault force. Landing in Normandy shortly after D-Day, the Black Watch participated in some thirty battle actions throughout France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Members of the Regiment won 211 honours and awards for the campaign.

The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (M.G.) was a Machine Gun Battalion. On D-Day the Camerons were placed directly under the command of the Brigades of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division . The Battalion was organized into “A”, “B”, and “C” Companies as Machine Gun companies, and “D” Company as a Heavy Mortar Company.

The Lanark and Renfrew Scottish Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia and later the Canadian Army. First organized as the 42nd Brockville Battalion of Infantry in 1866, the regiment was later relocated to Pembroke, Ontario and Redesignated as the 42nd Lanark and Renfrew Battalion of Infantry and became a Scottish regiment in 1927. The regiment was first converted to an air defence artillery regiment in 1946 but converted back to an infantry regiment in 1959.

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