99-year-old veteran Harold Beach on a remarkable career of military dentistry

Dentist Harold Beach had seen the inside of plenty of mouths in Pembroke when he joined the army in 1940. On his first day at the armouries in Ottawa though, he examined the mouth of one re-enlisting soldier that Harold's unlikely to forget: Billy Bishop.

 

But Harold Beach's years as a military dentist are filled with far more grim memories than that. When Alan visited the 99-year old veteran today, he told several of those stories...
including his memories of the invasion of Sicily, when five members of the Canada Dental Unit were sent in to aid Canadian soldiers.They were to set up in an old abandoned winery where injured soldiers would be brought to them. Although when they originally set sail, Harold didn't even know where they were off to...