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100 Days: Cambrai (CAF)

Wounded By A “Potato Masher”

Mr. Henley describes how the Germans tied several 'potato masher' grenades together to increase their potential for damage, and how he and his officer were badly wounded by one of these devices.

I knew a hundred bugle calls.

Mr. Joslin describes learning to play the bugle as a youth, purchasing his first army bugle, and concludes by describing his role as an army bugler.

God, the machine gun bullets!

Mr. Joslin describes the action at Cambrai that saw the Canadian Highlanders decimated by German machine gunners. He describes being wounded in the hand and complications arising from having a finger amputated.