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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.
They’ll eat up your food
Mr. MacKay describes two situations which offer opposing views about how to deal with German prisoners.
Give me the password
Mr. Skeates describes the unquestionable authority of on-duty sentries.
Just like hailstones
Mr. Skeates describes taking out machine gun nests and a German trench, and clearing basements on their way to the train station at Valenciennes.
I was lucky
Mr. Skeates describes being wounded during a shelling attack at Dury Mill.
Low flying German
Mr. Skeates describes his company’s advance by train to Amiens, and a very close encounter with the German Air Force.
Only 75 of them came out
Mr. Skeates describes the harshness of the front after joining the 46th Battalion, and describes the losses at Ypres.
Valenciennes
Mr. Skeates describes eliminating a sniper positioned in a house, and ambushing a German machine gun crew attempting to get repositioned.
The Americans
Mr. Wood describes the animosity between Canadian and American soldiers, based on the higher wages earned by U.S. soldiers inflating prices beyond what most Canadian troops could afford.
Gas attacks
Mr. Wood describes the Germans’ use of pipelines to gas the Allied trenches, how the Canadians counteracted the gas, and in some cases how deadly it was.
The Ross rifle
Mr. Wood compares the Canadian designed Ross rifle, which was long, cumbersome and 5-shot bolt action, to the much more reliable 10-shot British Lee Enfield rifle. He describes how Canadians scavenged British rifles from dead soldiers.
The horses died
Mr. Wood discusses the valuable role played by horses, particularly for moving artillery pieces and for moving supplies forward and evacuating the wounded on the narrow gauge railways constructed at the Front.
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