Private Aaron Feldman
Private Aaron Feldman enlisted in the Canadian Forces in December 1940. After
completing basic training in Long Branch and Camp Borden, Ontario and in Camp
Shiloh in Manitoba, he was assigned to the 29th Battery, 11th Field Regiment,
Royal Canadian Artillery, serving as a Signaller. In June 1942 Aaron was
transferred to British Columbia, staying first in Terrace and then in Nanaimo.
His unit was temporarily attached to the American army and he was sent to the
Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Adak beginning in November 1943. After D-Day,
Aaron was transferred overseas to Aldershot, England. He was then sent to
Belgium, where he met up with his brother Abe Feldman, and finally to the towns
of Apeldoorn and Nimegen in Holland. When the war ended on May 8, 1945, Aaron
remained in Holland and returned home to Canada in September 1945.
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