Second World War
Only one soldier was executed for committing a military offense during the Second World War, Private Harold Joseph Pringle of The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. He was executed after VE-Day in Italy in 1945 for the crimes of desertion and accomplice to murder.
Read more about this topic: List Of Canadian Soldiers Executed For Military Offences
Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“The body and the soul know how to play
In that dark world where gods have lost their way.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it!”
—Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)