23rd Field Regiment, RCA

Formed in Canada in 1942, the regiment consisted of three batteries that were recruited mainly from Ontario.

The month after D-Day, the regiment landed in France and subsequently participated in the breakout campaign from Normandy into Belgium and the Netherlands, before seeing their final actions of the war in Germany.

From May to July 1942, the three batteries formed up at the Canadian Artillery Training Centre A2 (CATC A2) in Petawawa, Ontario.

[5] The regiment participated in the breakout campaign, on the "Green Up – Maple Leaf Up" route from Normandy, France, into Belgium and the Netherlands, and they ended action in Germany.

[6] The three batteries that made up the 23rd Field Regiment were: Note: Locations shown in the map are highlighted in bold in the following section.