Guy James Brennan enlisted on 25 January 1944 in Toronto and was given the service number B158629. The Service number is one allocated to MD #3.
After sailing to the UK, he was taken on strength in Italy by the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders on 20 February 1945 and assigned to B Company. The battalion, and the 1st Brigade, were in reserve having spent the prior 2 weeks in the Ravenna marshes. The battalion, and the entire 1st Canadian Division, then moved across Italy the Genoa area, preparing to go across France to complete the liberation of the Netherlands. Pte Brennan, with the battalion, embarked from Leghorn, Italy on 10 March, landing at Marseille on the 12th, travelled across France to billets in Belgium, then the Reichswald Forest. Brennan participated in Operation Cannonshot, the liberation of Apeldoorn from 12 to 17 April and remained with the battalion until 18 July when he was struck off strength to the X-4 list (Inf. Gen, Unallocated) then to 13 CBR. He did not return home with the 48th Highlanders.
Back in Toronto, Guy James Brennan became a member of the Old Comrades Association, contributing to an issue of the regimental magazine “The Falcon” in June 1966.
NOK: mother, Ethel Brennan at 36 Victoria Blvd, Mount Denis, Ontario. His date of birth was 25 April 1924.