'Last' was an Allied one of several training exercises in preparation for 'Overlord', in this instance for formation and unit headquarters (mid-April 1944).

'Last' was a signals exercise involving Lieutenant General G. G. Simonds’s Canadian II Corps of General H. D. G. Crerar’s Canadian 1^st Army, and was designed to practise headquarters (down to and including the unit level) in the passing of information and conducting the operations involved in breaking out of a bridgehead.