Aboriginal Veteran casualties WWII

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¹After having neutralized the enemy's resistance near Falaise, Canadian, British Troops, including a Polish Armoured Division advanced,
pursuing the Germans into Belgium. Antwerp had been secured, though the entrance to the port remained heavily defended.
The port at Antwerp held strategic importance to the Allies and the enemy. Both banks (Scheldt Estuary) leading to the port were engaged.
The First Canadian Army was tasked to clear the Scheldt Estuary, as resistance increased.
Notably at Moerbrugge on the east bank of the Ghent canal (near Bruges), where enemy reinforcements were brought in, and it was
here that Cpl Welby Lloyd Patterson (Six Nations - Oshweken, Ontario), earned a Military Medal (MM).

"On the night 09/10 September, 1944 'C' Company, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada was among other sub-units of the
10th Infantry Brigade which had successfully set a small bridgehead over the canal at Moerbrugge, Belgium.
The enemy counter-attacked in great strength and acting on his own initiative, Corporal Patterson worked his way through
intense enemy mortar and machine gun fire to a position behind two stumps from where for three hours he fired with such coolness
and devastating accuracy that the enemy was unable to effectively counter-attack the main position. The
courage, initiative and complete disregard for personal safety shown by Cpl Patterson was undoubtedly responsible for the
defeat of repeated enemy thrusts at his unit's position".

² In a subsequent action on 10 September, 1944, Gunner Richard 'Dick' Patrick of the Royal Canadian Artillery,
(96th Battery - 5th Anti-tank regiment),
was awarded the Military Medal (MM). Patrick is from the Saik'uz Carrier Nation, in British Columbia.

"The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the Lincoln & Welland Regiments secured and continued to hold the small
bridgehead established, during which time a bridge was being constructed. The immediate vicinity was under intense
mortar and machine gun fire. Gunner Patrick, was a member of a 17-pounder M-10 gun crew, which with two tanks of the
29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment crossed the bridge at 0700 hours, 10 September, 1944. After the
M-10 had shot several suspected enemy positions, the actual locations of the enemy positions became hard to estimate
accurately due to poor visibility and fog. Gunner Patrick requested permission to go ahead on foot and carry out a reconnaissance to
locate enemy positions. Despite the enemy fire, he succeeded in getting into the middle of an enemy
machine gun position and there opened fire with his light machine gun. His daring attack completely surprised the enemy,
who totalled three officers, and 52 other ranks into surrender and cleared out a strong point which had pinned the infantry
down for approximately two days. The extension of the bridgehead was due in large part to the daring of this gunner".