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King Edward's Burial Day parade

Trench diggers relaxing. Caption: These Lethbridge, Alberta home builders were a long way from home in Italy, and digging trenches instead of erecting housing. Here, a cigarette provides the excuse for a moment's relaxation.

Service cooks learning to bake. Caption: They Taste Good Too - Catering to the appetite of the fighting men. At cooking school, operated by Catering Wing of RCASC not far behind front line in Italy, service cooks learn bakery, bulk cookery and field cookery with great emphasis laid on cleanliness and variety. Here, fit to make your mouth water is tray of fresh, hot buns bound for the Canadian Beaver Club in Italian town.

Soldiers smoking near caves used for barracks. Caption: Canadian soldiers fighting in Italy found that the caves in the hillsides made excellent barracks. Time out for a smoke found these men relaxing.

Soldiers plotting mortar fire during manoeuvers

Parachute training

Sitting around fireplace in ruin of house.

Canadian soldier checks the level of a field piece. Caption: Here, a Canadian soldier checks the level of the 5,5 field piece which he mans.

Soldiers checking their mail in the field.

Soldiers on a tank. Caption: Tanks as Stationary Artillery - In hard fighting north of Ortona, Canadian troops experimented with tanks as stationary artillery. Targets being out of sight, gunners were directed by tank officers at a forward observation post. In this photograph, men receive last minute instruction.