Canadian WWII group with Forces decoration. Three Rivers Regiment. 12th Army Tank Regt.

Unnamed WWII group consisting of 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star with Silver War and Defence Medals and Canadian Volunteers Medal with overseas clasp.

The Canadian Forces Decoration is correctly named Capt GN Magny.

Gabriel Nelson Magny was born to Donat and Marie in 1911 in Quebec, Canada.

Volunteering for the Army in 1938, he served with the Three Rivers Regiment.

In 1941, he married Marqueritte Fyen where it is noted he was a Lieutenant.

In 1942 as a Captain with the Regiment De Chateauguay, attached to the Army Examiners Branch, he was transferred to the staff of Army Examiners at Military District No4 in Valleyfield.

Making it overseas to France/Germany, he was also entitled to the overseas clasp to his volunteer medal.

Three Rivers Regiment, 12th Army Tank Regiment, 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade.

Early in February 1945, all Canadian troops were ordered to concentrate in northwestern Europe. The Regiment’s tanks were transported to Livorno from where they took to the sea. Landed in Marseilles in France on March 6, the Regiment was transferred to Belgium to be re-equipped with Shermans armed with long 17-pounder guns (about 8 kg) each. Two squadrons are assigned to occupy the trenches along the Waal, west of Arnhem. Shortly after, having assumed its role as an armored unit, the 12th CAR crossed the Rhine, slanted north into Germany, turned west and recrossed the Dutch border towards Enschede. After covering a 15-mile (24 km) front between Zutphen and Doesburg on the Yssel River, the Regiment supported the 1st Canadian Division in the April 1 assault and in the Battle of APPELDOORN. It goes to Amersfoort and then to the Grebbe Line.

On April 27, the fighting ceased as the Royal 22e Régiment broke through a last pocket of resistance with the help of the Three Rivers Regiment. Thus the Regiment ends an almost continuous period of operations that lasted nearly two years, during which it earned 23 citations of honor: more than double that of any other armored unit in Canada. In addition, the Regiment claims the honor of being the only Commonwealth unit to have fought alongside all the Allied Armies on the European fronts and to have spent the period of five months and 19 consecutive days without being relieved. .

After the German capitulation in May 1945, the Regiment, still commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Fernand L. Caron, stayed around Rotterdam, Haarlem, Delft and finally in Dokkum near the Frisian Islands, until its return to England in September, then in Canada in November.

He was awarded his Canadian Forces Decoration in February 1951.

Gabriel died in 1976 and is buried at Champ d’Honneur Cemetery in Montreal.

All medals have original silk ribbons.