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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1684807" data-attributes="member: 3144">Pte. Harold Burnard Hillis A/38246 (from Elmira, Ontario) serving with the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, R.C.I.C. seen here using a truck mirror for shaving in a bomb shattered garage, somewhere in Normandy, France. June 1944.Pte. Hillis died in action, only weeks later, during the 'Battle of Buron' on the 8th of July 1944, aged 21He is buried in the Canadian Cemetery in Beny-Sur-Mer, Calvados.'The Battle of Buron'The forward companies of The Highland Light Infantry of Canada, advancing towards Buron, came under heavy artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire. They cleared the enemy's positions in front of the village, losing heavily in the process, and then fought their way across the built-up area, assisted by tanks of the 27th Armoured Regiment whose arrival had been delayed by mines. Although it was reported at 8:30 a.m. that the H.L.I.'s forward troops were in Buron, some of the enemy fought on all day among the rubble, and in fact the last survivors were not rooted out until the following morning. In this area the 3rd Battalion, of the 25th S.S. Panzer Grenadier Regiment was fighting with the bitterness expected of the 12th S.S. Panzer Division; and the Canadians got the impression that the garrison of Gruchy when evicted had retired into Buron to strengthen the defence there.The Highland Light Infantry were fighting their first real battle at Buron, and it proved to be, like the North Shore's at Carpiquet, their bloodiest of the campaign. The battalion's casualties on 8 July amounted to 262, of which 62 were fatal; its commander, Lt.-Col. F. M. Griffiths, was among the wounded, but the day also brought him the D.S.O. Not only was Buron taken, but a very formidable armoured counter-attack late in the morning was beaten off with the efficient assistance of two troops of the 245th Anti-Tank Battery Royal Artillery and the supporting squadron of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment. Fourteen German tanks were reported destroyed.Pte. Hillis died in action during the 'Battle of Buron' on the 8th of July 1944, aged 22He is buried in the Canadian Cemetery in Beny-Sur-Mer, Calvados.<img src="https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1471133_618922904904172_8646169745571236294_n.png?oh=44ac53d18a54772e061e8e130fd3d8f8&oe=55089E9A" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Colourised by Allan White from Australia)<img src="https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/1495434_618877991575330_8553586211566684010_n.jpg?oh=ef656653072b54d4d93b2cf70ff23368&oe=550B99C9" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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