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Captain Paul Triquet
He earned the Victoria Cross at Casa Berardi during the Second World War’s Italian Campaign.
Fix bayonets
Mr. Stevenson describes an amusing miscue on the parade square.
Miles of artillery
Mr. Stevenson describes the extent of the Allied bombardment at Canal du Nord, and its effect on the German first line defenses.
Don't shoot
Mr. Stevenson describes assault tactics and the events surrounding his being wounded at his advance machine gun post.
Heavy barrage
Mr. Stevenson describes joining the 46th Battalion just after Passchendaele, and then seeing action on the Oppy Front as a Lewis gunner. He describes in detail an Allied shelling strategy called a box barrage.
The trenches half caved in
Mr. Stevenson describes trying to move around in mud caused by heavy rain collapsing the trenches, and being issued hip waders so he could man his Lewis gun position.
Intuition
Mr. Stevenson describes how his corporal’s instinct saved their lives during a barrage, and burying the dead in shell holes as part of a burial party.
They’ll eat up your food
Mr. MacKay describes two situations which offer opposing views about how to deal with German prisoners.
Bleeding badly
Mr. MacKay describes the loss of his friend, who’d been struck in the thigh by shrapnel and bled to death despite efforts to tourniquet the wound.
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!
Mr. MacKay describes the segregation camp in which he was quarantined before being sent to Bramshott.
Sniper school
Mr. MacKay describes a couple of the more difficult target drills faced by hopefuls in the sniper school at Bramshott.
Continental code
Mr. MacKay describes his personal difficulty learning to key Morse Code, and compares the Continental to the faster American code.
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