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The story is recounted in a Dec. 24, 1963 edition of the Oakville Journal-Record as Kitching and those at Ortona Barracks in Oakville prepared to celebrate Christmas 1963. In 1943, Canadian forces cel- ebrated an unexpected make-do Christmas dinner of pork and Christmas pudding in the ruins of the abandoned church of Santa Maria di Constantinopoli. Then, fighting continued and it was Kitchings brigade that relieved those in battle in Ortona on the front north of Ortona. The Central Command head- quarters in Oakville was named for the 1943 victory that ended in the capture of Ortona Castle and Canadian casualties of 650. Even the controversial Battle of Falaise was re-lived through the pages of the local newspaper. In Jan. 7, 1965 edition, the Daily Journal Record (at 14 pages and 7-cents/copy) carried a front-page story Falaise Re-lived: General Kitching interviewed. The story followed one in which U.S. General Omar Bradley was reported as charging Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery, commander of the British forces in the battle was darned scared. In the controversy that plagued the British, Canadian and U.S. effort in the battle, Kitching was reported as defend- ing the effort saying, British- Canadian forces north of Falaise faced stiffer German defences than did the Americans moving up from the south. Kitching described the action took place in an area 60 miles long and 15 miles deep in which were half a million troops. The second is that the plan which Montgomery followed was one that had been agreed upon prior to the invasion by Generals Bradley and Eisenhower. Kitching then, in the article, pointed to Canadian historian Col. C. P. Staceys own account of the battle, though it was Stacey who had offered criticism. It read, When the battle of Trun Gap was over, it presented a terrible sight. Burned-out tanks and vehicles in incredible num- bers lined and blocked every road and track. Dead soldiers and hors- es by hundreds and thousands lay on the roadways and in the ditch- es. Bulldozers were used to clear a way through this human and mechanical debris. The dead were everywhere, so close, they were practically touching. About 6,000 Canadians were either killed or wounded during this one battle 120,000 Germans were in a pocket. Twenty thousand escaped, the rest were killed or taken prisoner. After the battle, Kitching who received the Order of the British Empire, was Canadian national representative on Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers of Europe in Paris and military adviser to the Canadian NATO delegation before being posted to Oakville in June 1962. Following the war, Kitching served as Vice Quartermaster General, Brigadier General Staff, Director General of Army Personnel, Commandant of the Canadian Army Staff College, Chief of Staff Western Command, Commander of British Columbia Area, Vice Chief of the General Staff and Chair of the Canadian Joint Staff in London. Kitchings obituary noted He Continued from page 27 (Kitching) was a partici- pant and eyewitness of some of the most signifi- cant events of this century, and as such, will remain a key figure in the history of the Canadian army. He is a patron of the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific and published his memoirs called Mud and Green Fields.