I've written at various times about our uncle Mac Dixon, my mother's brother, and his service during WW II. Especially the horrible experiences of the 1944 D-day landing on Juno Beach. I knew he had served with the 1st Hussars out of London (that's where he signed up and the regiment where he was discharged). But he also served in a newly formed regiment, the Kangaroos", after he had been wounded in action. It turns out that the Kangaroos were land based armoured troop carriers cobbled together in August 1944 — very late in the war, very early after D-day. The Facebook article I have cribbed here gives some of the details of that forgotten part of history.
See also
- War time photos of William (Mac) Dixon.
- Canadian Kangaroo Regiment Archive (re: William (Mac) Dixon)
- “Mac” Dixon and the “BOLD” at Juno Beach Center
- William (Mac) Dixon (this blog 2020)
- Mac's brother: Sgt. Walter Dixon (this blog 2021)
- Oral History — Mac Dixon (this blog 2022)
- Oral History — Correspondence (this blog 2022)
- Home from Overseas (1945) (this blog 2024)
