Canadian Army Newsreel No. 8

8.1 Crash Victims Buried at Brookwood Cemetery Victims of an airplane crash in April 1943, Major General Harry Leonard Noel Salmon and Lieutenant Colonel Francis Jeffrey Finlay, are buried; Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and others salute the coffins; 21-gun salute. 8.2 Vanier Visits French Canadian Units Major General Georges P. Vanier does a tour of inspections; the Royal 22nd Fighting Vandoos; the 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Engineers with Lieutenant General McNaughton, where he sees a demonstration of bomb disposal and gives an informal address; Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, veterans of Dieppe. 8.3 Six-Pounder Shoot Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery on ranges with guns; loading and firing. 8.4 High Commissioner Clears a Minefield The Right Honourable Malcolm MacDonald, the British High Commissioner to Canada, reviews the Governor General’s Horse Guard, 5th Division; engineers demonstrate minefield clearance; tanks equipped with tank assault bridges go over a ditch; MacDonald clears a mine. 8.5 The Queen Inspects Highland Units May 7, 1943 – Queen Elizabeth visits the Black Watch, the Royal Highland Unit of whom she is Colonel-in-Chief; Lieutenant Colonel H.T. Cantley attends; march and inspection by troops; Toronto Scottish inspection with Lieutenant E.G. Johnson in attendance; the Queen departs. 8.6 R.C.A.F. Train Busters Squadron Leader Blake Wood instructs D.M. Bitzy Grant; pilots start Mustang planes, take off and attack German trains; return home.