During the night of 23 October 1944, the Regiment formed a defensive laager near a woods west of Huijbergen. "Throughout the night", the War Diarist recorded, "there was intermittent mortar en shell fire around RHQ and at 2300 hours the alarm was sounded on hearing a few bursts of MG fire in the area. It was a restless night with German artillery and mortar fire falling in the area of the harbour. When there was a general stand-to at dwan, Albert Halkyard's crew were unable to wake their driver, Vern Easton, and discovered that he had been killed by a shell fragment that had struck him while was asleep.*

Trooper Edgar Vernon Easton was first buried in a field grave near Bremakker/Oude Baan at Essen (Belgium) and then reburied in the canadian war cemetery of Bergen op Zoom.

*source: Book Donald E. Graves: South Albertas: A Canadian Regiment at war.

** source for pictures and information below is the Canadian virtual war memorial