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He put me in charge

Mr. Gleason describes escaping a dangerous situation with his ammunition supply team, and a dangerous yet amusing situation arising from a girlfriend’s photo.

We hoofed it all the way

Mr. Gleason describes moving from Arras to Amiens on foot.. He has an interesting take on the army’s definition of “non-essential kit.”

Digging trenches

Mr. Gleason describes the long hours and drudgery of digging trenches which were sometimes never used.

Enlightening experience

Mr. Gleason describes being helped to a dressing station by a badly wounded Japanese-Canadian soldier from an adjacent battalion, and years later giving a neighbour a lesson in tolerance.

Over the top

Mr. Gleason describes the assault at Vimy Ridge on the fourth day, losing three friends, being wounded, and nearly drowning trying to evade enemy shelling.

Waste deep in dead bodies

Mr. Hatch describes a gruesome discovery while trying to locate a First Aid post in pitch darkness, witnessing terror, and sleeping with the enemy.

Stokes gun

Mr. Hatch describes in detail the Stokes Gun and how it was used. He also describes the deadly result of premature detonation of the bomb in its barrel.

Hell on earth

Mr. Hatch describes reaching their day’s objective, a bombed out sugar factory at Thiepville, and the devastation caused by a single shrapnel bomb.

Follow the white tape

Mr. Hatch describes getting lost after taking a wrong turn in the trenches at the Somme, his Officer being mortally wounded, and scrambling back to his trench minus his kit.

Two dollars in my pocket

Mr. Hatch describes enlisting despite being under-aged, with the help of a creative recruiter’s wardrobe.

Gunners chained to the gun

Mr. Huckerby describes advancing on the Germans, taking prisoners and securing a German machine gun position. He also discusses the vulnerability he felt there.

We pushed them back

Mr. Huckerby describes the 46th Battalion’s assault on the Germans at Amiens, and driving them back to a chalk pit.

Date modified:: 2019-02-19