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Searching for my brother
Mr. Butterworth describes sneaking onto the battlefield at night in search of his brother who was rumoured to have been killed, but eventually finding him safe in camp.
Bicycle Courier
Mr. MacLeod describes in humorous detail some of the risks of being a bicycle courier.
Shoot the rabbit
Mr. MacKay describes his unusual trip to join the 46th Battalion, and some strange music to accompany his first meal with his unit.
Signal Stations
Mr. MacKay describes being selected from a pool of signalmen to join the 46th Battalion, and then describes his responsibilities during an infantry advance.
Continental code
Mr. MacKay describes his personal difficulty learning to key Morse Code, and compares the Continental to the faster American code.
Sniper school
Mr. MacKay describes a couple of the more difficult target drills faced by hopefuls in the sniper school at Bramshott.
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!
Mr. MacKay describes the segregation camp in which he was quarantined before being sent to Bramshott.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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