Christopher Vokes
Major-General Christopher Vokes was a Canadian Army officer who fought in World War II. Born in Armagh, Ireland, he commanded the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade during the Allied invasion of Sicily. Promoted to major-general, Vokes led the 1st Canadian Infantry Division through several battles of the Italian campaign, which included fierce house-to-house fighting in the Battle of Ortona and the advance north to the Hitler Line.
Background
- Born in
- Armagh
- Educated at
- McGill UniversityRoyal Military College of CanadaStaff College, Camberley
- Awards
- 🏆 Distinguished Service Order🏆 Companion of the Order of the Bath🏆 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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"Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the cou…"
"Some more of Monty's boys came up, soon after Malone had left but they, too, spent their time getting shelled by the ever-persistent Germans. Likewise, they departed, their minds expanded and their sp…"
"Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them."
"I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II."
"I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience."
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1904
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Birth1985
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