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501107 Cpl. Wilfrid Frève Canadian Army Mont-Royal Fusiliers My father, Cpl Wilfrid Frève, served with the Mont-Royal Fusiliers and took part in the first battle on French soil after the landings of June 6, 1944. The Fusiliers arrived in France on July 7 (Courseulles-sur-mer). They found themselves at Carpiquet Airfield, awaiting their orders of battle. On 18 July, they were outside the village of Ifs, about to take Verrières, but first had to seize two farms (Troteval & Beauvoir). After 36 hours under fire at Troteval only five men remained, and he was captured and taken to Stalag VIII B. He was in 2 ArbeitsKommandos, the E-901 (few days) and E-902 near Michelsneukirchen (Bavaria) which was liberated by the Americans. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.