A Brief History of the Canadian Army

At the close of this action, the battalion was only 80 strong. The enemy turned out eventually to be russians forced to fight under german officers. They told us later that they had been informed by the germans that if they fell into allied hands, they would be shot as traitors. This situation was not liquidated until lovett's men arrived and cleared leplin and the whole northern edge of the ridge of the germans once and or all.