Description
Mr. Boyce discusses the Battle of the Somme as being the point where the Allies switched from defensive to offensive strategies.
Harry Boyce
Harry Boyce was born in Bonshaw, Prince Edward Island on September 4, 1893. After moving to Regina to work as an architect, he returned to P.E.I. to enlist with the 8th Canadian Siege Battery. He trained in Charlottetown then went overseas and continued his training at Aldershot, England, where he specialized on the 8-inch siege gun, which fired a 200 pound shell. In the autumn of 1915 he was sent to France and served during the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Le Preol. He was gassed and repatriated to Canada.
Transcript
The Battle of the Somme you see, it was back and forth. It was, it wasn’t, it was really a decisive battle as far as we were concerned because the Germans, ever after the Battle of the Somme they were on the defensive and before that we were on the defensive and they were on the offensive, but the Battle of the Somme just reversed the situation as it were.