Valenciennes

Mr. MacKay describes his unusual trip to join the 46th Battalion, and some strange music to accompany his first meal with his unit.

Mr. MacKay describes being selected from a pool of signalmen to join the 46th Battalion, and then describes his responsibilities during an infantry advance.

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.

Mr. MacKay describes two situations which offer opposing views about how to deal with German prisoners.

Mr. Skeates describes taking out machine gun nests and a German trench, and clearing basements on their way to the train station at Valenciennes.