Charles Norman Vollick enlisted on 3 July 1944 in Esquimalt BC and given the service number B155788. He was born 21 September 1919 and gave his religion as Church of England. His next of kin in a later document was: wife – Mrs. Dorothy Vollick, 635 2nd Avenue, Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Part II Orders to the War Diary of April 1945 of the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada, show Pte Vollick being taken on strength from the 48th Highlanders’  X-4 List (Soldiers available for reinforcement) on 7 April 1945. His trade listed was Signaller.

At this time the battalion was in the Kranenburg area of Germany, surrounded by the ruins of the Siegfried Line in the Reichswald Forest. The battalion had left Italy on 12 March for Marseille on 13 March and after crossing France was in Belgium on the 19th. A few days later they moved to Germany, at Kranenburg. Pte Vollick joined them there, two days before the battalion departed for Holland on 9 April. Operation Cannonshot, the liberation of Apeldoorn, began 12 April with the crossing of the Ijssel River and ended 17 April in Apeldoorn. On the 25th the battalion went out of battle as part of the truce arranged with General Blaskowitz to allow food into the starving Dutch. Blaskowitz threatened to flood the country unless the Canadians stopped fighting. The battalion then spent time in Soest, Delft and The Hague (where they acted as gaolers to German SS troops), then returned to Soest.

Pte Vollick was struck off strength of the battalion on 18 July 1945 and posted to CBR (Canadian Base Reinforcement).

NOK: wife – Mrs. Dorothy Vollick, 635 2nd Avenue, Niagara Falls, Ontario