Platoon Commander

Mr. Copp describes attacking and securing a position at Vimy Ridge and notes the heavy German death toll.

Mr. Copp describes a reconnaissance mission during which he suffers a head wound from shrapnel. While convalescing in England, he is invited to Buckingham Palace where he is awarded the Military Cross by King George V.

Mr. Copp describes the effects of fatigue depleting his Company’s ranks during a forced march to Mametz after five days in action at the Somme.

Mr. Copp describes an unexploded German shell landing in their field kitchen. Feeling his men are too exhausted, he removes the danger himself.

Mr. Copp describes one deadly day in the trenches: a soldier killed by a sniper, another by shrapnel, a corporal going crazy from shell shock, and two of his men killed by a direct artillery hit.

Mr. Copp describes carrying the kit for two of his men (plus his own) who would have been too exhausted to otherwise proceed on the forced march to Ypres.