After the heavy fighting near Welberg, units of the Canadian 4th Armoured Division advanced towards Dinteloord. The Argylls and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada entered the destroyed village during 5 November. A reconnaissance unit continued northwards with the aim of having a look at Dintelsas. The Canadian forces found the area in chaos. Dintelsas had been used by the rearguard of the German army. The only access road was full of abandoned equipment, small arms, lots of ammunition, and even a brand new armoured vehicle. In the harbour, two German naval vessels had been partially sunk. The naval boats lying half in water clearly had traces of artillery fire.

After the Allies realised that the German navy, under cover of darkness at night, was still in the process of removing soldiers, English artillery began firing on the port. In one such instance, 19-year-old German Georg Schmidt met his fate when the ship he was on, a confiscated Dutch fishing boat, took a direct hit, killing him instantly.

Schmidt served in the German 6th Fallschirm Jäger Regiment. Because he was small and looked boyish, he was called 'Schmidtchen' by his comrades. Despite his youth, the paratrooper already had a lot of combat experience. He had experienced the battle in Normandy and also the many battles of his parachute unit in North Brabant. While many of his comrades died, he had always outsmarted fate. No doubt Georg must have been greatly relieved when, on the night of 5 November, he took his seat on a naval ship to go to a safer area. But around 4.45am, a British artillery shell ended his life. Georg was given a hastily dug field grave by his comrades near a farm on the harbour.

By enormous coincidence, young Georg was also figuratively given a face. In the summer of 1944, his mother was sitting in a cinema watching the German newsreel and in a flash saw her son passing by in a recording about the battle in Normandy. Afterwards, the mother asked for a copy of that bit of the newsreel and she got it. The photo has been preserved, and so almost 80 years later "Schmidtchen" still has a face. Georg Schmidt was given his final resting place at the German War Cemetery in Ysselsteyn.