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0 By the third week of July 1944 the senior German officers in the west feared their armies were on the verge of collapse. Battle casualties totalled more than 116,000 men and just 10,000 replacements had arrived to sustain combat strength. The loss of 2,722 officers... -
0 One Sunday morning, early in March 1915, Cooper Antliff of 41 St. Mark St., Montreal, took up pen and paper and wrote a three-page letter to his brother, Private William Antliff, a commerce student at McGill University who had interrupted his studies to enlist and... -
2 Silence reigns over the fields surrounding the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, about 175 kilometres north of Paris. The pockmarked battlefields where 100,000 Canadians fought 95 years ago have been softened by time, the slumped shoulders of the trenches clothed by grass and surrounded by spring-green...
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0 “…thousands of men out of work…” Witley Camp, April 17, 1919 Dear Folks, Well: here we are in Blighty and finished with France and Belgium, I hope. It’s mighty good to be in a land where you don’t have to try swallowing your tongue when...
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0 “Getting pretty impatient now.” Witley Camp, April 15, 1919 Miss Millie Dobbs, 25 Howland Ave., Toronto, Ont., Canada Dear Sister, Well here we are in “Blighty” and darned glad, too, to get in a civilized country again. Landed at Southampton the 4th and came right...
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0 “…the troops are rioting and raising hell…” Ham-Sur-Sambre, Belgium, March 20, 1919 Mr. W.E. Dobbs, Dear Folks, …What do you think of our kicking our heels around this country yet? If any person had made a statement that we would still be in this country...
Canada At War
