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The history of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada. Volume 2. : 1939-1945 / Roman Johann Jarymowycz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarymowycz, Roman Johann, 1945-2017, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armed Forces.
- Canada--Armed Forces.
- Canada.
- Canada--History, Military.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : The Royal Highlanders of Canada, [2023]
- Summary:
- Roman Jarymowycz recounts the story of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada in three volumes, tracing its history from the roots to present day. Through diaries, letters, classified documents, and the regimental archive, he weaves the strands of a complex story into an epic narrative.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The History of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Volume II: 1939-1945
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF APPENDICES
- LIST OF MAPS
- PART IV THE ROYAL HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945
- CHAPTER 1 MOBILIZATION AND GUARDING CANALS, 1 RHC MOBILIZED - AUGUST 1939
- First Division Mobilized
- 1 RHC Mobilized for 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
- 5th Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
- The Provisional Officers Training School
- Struggles at the Home Front, 1940
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
- Waiting to be Mobilized, 2 RHC, 1940
- The Summer of 1940 - Modern War Realized
- Colonel Hutchison and the Home Front
- The 2nd Battalion RHC: March 1942 to July 1943
- 2 RHC 1942
- 2 RHC Disbanded July 1943
- Wartime Training 1943 to 1944 - Nothing to Snuff at …
- Montreal and the Second World War
- Hutchison's Highland Mafia
- Ravenscrag, Beer and Highland Cadets
- Retrospect: The Home Front 1939-1944
- CHAPTER 2 REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS, 1939-1944: DIEPPE, ITALY AND UK
- The Battalion in Aldershot, England
- Dramatis Personae
- Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Gault Blackader and his Regiment, 1940-42
- Six Out-Sourced Black Watch Officers in the Mediterranean
- Lieutenant Colonel Jim Weir, The Cape Breton Highlanders
- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Boyd Somerville, The Cape Breton Highlanders
- Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Doucet OBE, The Perth Regiment
- Yugoslavia Jones, Commando
- Lieutenant Colonel Charles Petch OBE, NNS, 4th PLDG
- Lieutenant Colonel John Bourne, FSSF
- 1 RHC in Great Britain 1942-1944: Four Commanders, Three Colonels
- Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Douglas Cantlie
- Operation Jubilee - Dieppe 19 August 1942
- The Black Watch Mission
- The C Company Grenade Incident
- Edward Force - Blue Beach 0545 hrs.
- Captain MacLaurin's Mortars on Red Beach - 0530-1230 hrs 19 August 1942
- Trapped Aboard LCT 127
- Captain John Alexander Kenny - MIA
- Recognitions for Gallantry
- Post-Dieppe Training for War 1942-1943
- Musical Chairs: Cantlie, Henderson and again Cantlie - 1 RHC April 1943 to January 1944
- Criticism: The Farewell Address
- En passant: Lieutenant Colonel Henderson
- A New RSM - Stuart Cantlie Prepares for Normandy
- "Worthy" - Black Watch in the Armoured Corps
- July 1944 - Dress Rehearsals Done, War at last
- CHAPTER 3 NORMANDY - THE BATTLES FOR VERRIÈRES RIDGE: JULY-AUGUST 1944
- Upholding Their Good Name
- Into Normandy
- The Tactical Situation Circa July 1944
- Verrières Ridge: The First Battle 18-24 July - Operation Atlantic
- Lieutenant Colonel SST Cantlie and His Battalion
- Operations Atlantic and Goodwood, 18 July-21 July "The Best Tank Country West of Paris"
- Counterattack vs. Counterattack: 21 July, 1 RHC, Operation Atlantic
- The Purgatory of Verrières Ridge 21-24 July 1944
- Verrières Ridge: The Second Battle 25-26 July - Operation Spring
- Germans Facing Simonds
- Planning 5th Brigade's Portion of Spring
- Black Watch Planning for Spring
- The Enemy: The 272nd Wehrmacht Infantry Division
- Lying in Wait: 9th SS Pz and 2nd Pz Kampfgruppen, Plus the 10th SS Aufklärung Abteilung
- Securing the Start Line: Operation Spring, 25 July 1944 - The Calgary Highlanders
- "Monty's Moonlight" - Leichenlicht
- Lieutenant Colonel Cantlie, 0500 hrs 25 July
- Lieutenant Colonel Cantlie Killed: 0530 hrs 25 July
- The Duffield Patrol
- Radio Orders from Above
- Major Griffin's Attack Plan
- B Squadron, 1st Hussars
- Captain Gordon Powis, The Senior Forward Observation Officer
- Griffin's Meeting with Brigadier Megill
- CHAPTER 4 NORMANDY - THE BLACK WATCH ASSAULTS VERRIÈRES RIDGE, 25 JULY 1944
- The Attack.
- Forward, Without Tanks - H Hr 0930
- 1st Battalion RHC, Verrières Ridge - Reorganized, 25 July 1944
- The Hell of Verrières Ridge
- The Supporting Armour
- The Whirlwind of Fire: Panzer Counterattack
- Major Phil Griffin and The Black Watch - Into the Bloodied Wheat
- Major Griffin Killed: 9th SS Overruns the last of The Black Watch: 1700 hrs
- Wer die Höhe überschreitet ist ein toter Mann
- Captain Gordon Powis - Officer Commanding 1 RHC
- Holding the Line: Captain Ron Bennett's Rearguard
- Shell Alley
- Sergeant Vernon Blake MM
- The Last Effort to Reach Griffin: R de Mais Attacks, Evening 25 July
- Command Shake-Up and Finale
- Conclusion
- The Shock of the Lost Battalion: Censorship and The Simonds Critique
- The Motzfeldt Report: Report on Battle of St-André and May-sur-Orne 25 July 1944
- The Question of Griffin's Victoria Cross
- The Apotheosis of the Regiment
- CHAPTER 5 FRANCE, HOLLAND AND THE SCHELDT - AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1944
- Rebuilding the Battalion - August 1944: Once More into the Breach …
- The New CO - Lieutenant Colonel FM Mitchell: Less Than Four Days …
- Delicate Diplomacy and Martial Ill-Boding: Mitchell vs. Megill
- Verrières Ridge. The Third Battle, 5 August: Attacking May-sur-Orne
- After Action Accountability
- Operations Totalize and Tractable - A Battlefield Pause
- The Battle of Bourgtheroulde - 26 August 1944
- Good-bye to Normandy
- Montreal: The Aftermath of Verrières
- Back to Dieppe and the Channel Ports - September 1944
- The Battle of Spycker 12-13 September 1944
- Post-Spycker Confrontations: Mitchell vs. Megill
- The Scheldt
- Brigadier WJ Megill and The Black Watch
- Training Replacements
- Fall 1944 - Two Bloody Months
- The German Infanterie Division 346 - The Antwerp-Turnhout Canal Line
- St-Leonard and Brecht, 29 September-1 October 1944
- Hoogerheide, 8-9 October 1944.
- "Black Friday" - Operation Angus, 13 October 1944: The Black Watch vs. The Blue Baron
- Goes - 28 October 1944
- The Walcheren Causeway: 31 October 1944
- November to December 1944
- D Company Raid - Grafwegen, 7 December 1944
- Regimental Sergeant-Major Leitch
- CHAPTER 6 THE LAST YEAR OF WAR: JANUARY TO MAY 1945
- Hogmanay, 1945
- Ave Atque Vale - February, 1945
- The Rhineland: Ops Veritable and Blockbuster, 8 February to 11 March 1945
- Commendations in the field of battle: The Hochwald 25-26 February 1945
- Fighting through March, 1945
- Black Watch COs and their Brigadier
- Spring, 1945: Lieutenant Colonel Motzfeldt
- Clearing Germans: Terborg, Groningen and Stenum: 1 April to 4 May 1945
- Laren Attack: Motzfeldt Wounded, 5 April 1945
- Colonel Sydney Thomson - "An Outstanding Stranger"
- Groningen: Civil House-Clearing
- Stenum, 26 April 1945 - The Last Act
- Lieutenant Colonel VE Traversy
- Resolution - A Regiment's War
- A Highland Melting Pot
- NOTES TO PART IV
- PART IV - ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART IV - MAPS
- APPENDICES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jarymowycz, Roman Johann The History of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
- ISBN:
- 9780228017141
- OCLC:
- 1374426170
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