Mr. Kerr said:
I heard that you are interviewing veterans..please interview me......
Mr. Kerr died in June 2005
Todays performance is a tribute to you.
May you rest in peace ......

Don Clarke Kerr , Gunner in the artillery. The First division,
2nd brigade, I sort of forgot it. But I think it was 70th field battery.
If I am wrong about that ....it wouldn’t really matter.
What I remember about Holland....I have to think for a minute.
My memory isn’t so good and it has been a long time.
I sort of....never talk about the war. When we came back
from the war there were so many stories to tell. But I never
really bothered to talk about it you know. We were mainly in Italy,
Sicily, and then we came up to Holland. They sent all the
Canadians into Holland so they could all fight together.
Wasn’t too long before the end of the war. We weren’t
there for a real long time you know. I came to Holland in
1944 and it was winter time. We went to Apeldoorn,
I’m pretty sure of that!

I remember one dead soldier...a German soldier
laying on the street. An eldery woman was walking by,
and crossed her self. I thought it was funny that they
hadn’t picked up the soldier. I guess they never had the
time yet...you know.... I’ve seen a lot of dead people for sure...
but that one sort of stuck on my mind. I felt so sorry for that
old lady that had to go by. There was a river. It was very flat river.

You know the ground isn’t very much higher then the river banks.
We were up there and the infantry was crossing and I was
laying telephone lines at the time. They were shooting
smoke shells around us.

I laid telephone lines from the guns up to the front line
and kept moving with the infantry. So when the guns moved up,
the telephone lines were there for them you know.
At that time I was doing that. Before,
I was on the guns for a long time.

Bert Oliver (WWII Veteran) Liberator of the Netherlands

bombardeer - 17th Field Artillery
the 11th Infantry Brigade - 5th Armoured Division.