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Biplanes collide
Mr. MacLeod describes a mid-air collision between two Allied observation aircraft, and seeing one airman tumbling to earth without a parachute.
Gas masks
Mr. MacLeod gives a good comparison between the original respirator and newer gas masks used by Canadian soldiers.
Cavalry charge
Mr. MacLeod describes the impressive sight of a full cavalry charge and the high mortality of the horses because of well-positioned German machine gunners. He questions why the cavalry would have been chosen to attack heavy gun emplacements in Batume-Peronne Wood.
Bringing their souls back home
Mr. Moulton describes a spiritual journey to Europe to reclaim the souls of his friends.
You know everybody
Mr. Moulton describes returning home and his lasting love of his home in Tobique.
The doctor had to wake him up
Mr. Moulton describes the heavy demands on the Ordinance Corps in preparation for D-Day.
Bombs were falling over the place
Mr. Moulton describes the kindness of the English people and the impact of bombing.
I just wanted to go in the Army
Mr. Moulton describes his reasons for enlisting, and being treated as an equal in the service.
My legs gave out on me
Mr. Moulton describes his steps from basic training in New Brunswick to driving a truck for the Ordinance Corps in England.
That turned into the Legion.
Mr. Joslin describes how the Royal Canadian Legion came into being.
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.
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