In fact in July 1944 while serving in France he suffered bullet and fragment wounds. He saw much action as a stretcher-bearer with his rifle company. Fromstein was only 17 years old when he enlisted in August 1940 but so anxious was he to see action that he used his older brother’s name and papers to enlist. When war broke out in 1939, the three brothers, like more than 17,000 other young Canadian Jews (fully 20 per cent of the entire Canadian male Jewish population of the time), enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces Lou with the Canadian First Army, Albert with the RCAF and Harold with the Royal Highland Regiment of the Black Watch. He and his brothers Lou and Albert were well known for their athletic abilities and were active with the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) there. Fromstein moved as a young teenager with his family to Montreal. Established in 1862 the Black Watch, out of Montreal where it still has its headquarters today, served gallantly in battles from the time of the Fenian raids in 1866 through to world wars I and II and even in modern time where it saw action in Afghanistan.īorn in Toronto, Pte. Harold “Red” Fromstein served with the Black Watch, Canada’s oldest Highland Regiment. Very often these angels of the battlefield undertook to administer to the medical needs of those wounded in action, dressing injuries and evacuating soldiers from the field of battle very often at risk of their own lives. Those who were part of the Canadian Field Ambulance Service are a fine example. Heroes came in all shapes and sizes, and not all carried guns or flew Spitfires. With Remembrance Day just around the corner it behooves us to recall those within our own community who served with great courage during World War II.
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