[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

The term was penned as a nickname for the 1st Canadian Division who fought in the Sicily/Italy campaign under the Eighth Army for 23 months because they were not part of the Normandy landings..They were secretly pulled out of the campaign after the D-Day landings,whereby they joined up with the 2nd,3rd, & 4th Divisions I believe in Holland to become the 1st Canadian Army,finally fighting under that designation,for the first time.All the news concentrated on the other divisons who landed in Normandy,& I saw somewhere that the 1st Div troops with tongue in cheek referred to these Div's as the "Glory Boys"as the !st had been in action in the Med for all that time without getting much ink.My dad used the term all the time after the war.The West Novas in the photo were I think part of the 1st Div if the photo dates 1940,others on the forum may add or correct me on this.