Canadian Army Newsreel No. 36

36.1 Roman Holiday
A pipe band honours the opening of the Canada Club; men and women sit at a café; an Italian jive band plays and people dance; servicemen enter the Vatican to attend a religious ceremony; Royal 22nd Regiment parade in to have an audience with Pope Pius XII; the soldiers leave the Vatican.

36.2 Italian Front Inspection
Lieutenant-General E.L.M. Burns inspects the Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry troops; Burns talks to the soldiers; a band plays and the soldiers parade; the Seaforths and the Loyal Edmontons.

36.3 Canadian Cricketers at Lords
At Lords Pavilion, the All Canadian Army Team plays Lords Eleven; Corporal H. Padmore, a Canadian originally from Barbados and experienced cricketer, pitches; spectators watch on.

36.4 Bastille Day
A French Canadian honour guard participates in a ceremony in a small French town; religious ceremony; speeches.

36.5 Caen
The buildings of the Carpiquet Airfield in ruins; a former German officers’ mess hall; the assault on Caen begins; a bulldozer in ruins; more ruins in the streets; French civilians return to what is left of their homes; Civil Affairs Office sign; food supplies brought into a bakery; ration line-ups; a soldier shares his rations; the Maple Leaf office sign is put up; Headquarters exterior with loudspeakers; a ceremony by the French Resistance; the flag of the Cross of Lorraine is unfurled.