Concerning the fierce battle on the Mariabaan: The Shermans came under fire from an SPG sheltered behind a concrete bunker. The tankers returned fire. Then a shell pierced one Sherman's turret, and Lance Corporal Lionel Lalonde and Guardsman Joseph Bordeleau were both killed. Another round struck Smith's tank a glancing blow that caved in one side of the turret, seizing it up. The Sherman of his battle captain, who had been maintaining the wireless link to regimental headquarters, was knocked out, and Lance Corporal Roland St. Amand died inside.

* source: Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, Mark Zuehlke