L/Sgt Albert Glover, 6th Field Company, Military Medal

Lance-Sergeant Glover has been a Reconnaissance Sergeant of a platoon of, 6 Canadian Field Company from, 6 June 1944 until the end of hostilities. During that period he has been called upon to make recces in forward areas, sometimes in front of the infantry, on an average of three or four times a week. All of these he has carried out in a daring and imaginative manner and to [the] complete satisfaction of platoon and company commanders. On the 14 July 1944 the infantry of 7 Canadian Infantry Brigade held positions in Caen north of the River Orne, while the enemy held the south bank. The chief engineer urgently required accurate details of the Orne River crossing and these Lance-Sergeant Glover volunteered to get. In full view of the enemy and in broad daylight this Non-Commissioned Officer with his platoon officer rowed across the river in a recce boat and made a thorough appreciation of the situation. He further remained in the vicinity of the river bank through the whole of the following night to observe the rise and fall of tide and to complete the information already gathered. All this was accomplished under difficult conditions and harassing sniper fire and through intermittent concentrations of mortar and shell fire. At Calais, in the Scheldt, Nijmegen, Cleve, eastern Holland and northwest Germany, through eleven months of action, Lance-Sergeant Glover's conduct of the tasks given him has been of the very highest order and his gallantry and determination has on many occasions allowed him to carry out reconnaissances which have been of the greatest value in contributing information to the general engineer picture.