![As a young second lieutenant commanding 8 Platoon, ‘C’ Company, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, in Korea, Chris Snider of Oakville, Ont., earned a Miltary Cross for leading his 10-man patrol through two mortar attacks in enemy-infested territory. [lStephen J. Thorne/LM]](https://www.harvards.com/wp-content/uploads/veteran-Chris-Snider-Oakville.jpg)
![Vintage trainers from the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association in Tillsonburg, Ont., conducted multiple flypasts at the Sunnybrook Remembrance Day ceremony. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]](https://www.harvards.com/wp-content/uploads/CHAA-multiple-flypasts-300x201.jpg)
Legion Magazine: Jan/Feb 2025: Chris Snider was a 21-year-old second lieutenant commanding 8 Platoon, ‘C’ Company, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, when his 10-man patrol came under fire from Chinese mortars ensconced in the hills facing them.
It was the night of April 25, 1953, and Snider had detected opposing troops approaching them in the no man’s land that formed the border between the Koreas.
The war was nearly three years old and Snider, a U.S.-born, Oakville, Ont.-raised Canadian army volunteer, had become accustomed to the whiz of rifle and machine-gun rounds zooming past and the randomness of the shells dropping in from above.
Article and photos courtesy of Legion Canada’s Military History Magazine Stephen J. Thorne.