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Haunting Memories

Mr. Pitcairn discusses the sense of detachment he had from the immediate horrors of the battlefield, but having those memories haunt him in later years.

Mail From Home

Mr. Pitcairn describes the importance of mail from home, and his disappointment over not receiving enough letters himself.

Gas Masks

Mr. Pitcairn discusses the risk of gas attacks and compares the original flannel gas mask to the newer, more effective charcoal box filtered mask.

The Value of Horses

Mr. Pitcairn describes the value of horses, both as work animals and as a food source for the Germans.

Bicycle Courier

Mr. MacLeod describes in humorous detail some of the risks of being a bicycle courier.

Shoot the rabbit

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

Signal Stations

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

Continental code

Mr. MacKay describes his personal difficulty learning to key Morse Code, and compares the Continental to the faster American code.

Sniper school

Mr. MacKay describes a couple of the more difficult target drills faced by hopefuls in the sniper school at Bramshott.

That damn old Ross rifle

Mr. Bourne describes the camps he was in in Southern England, Bramshott and Shorncliffe, where he learned to shoot using the Ross rifle.

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!

Mr. MacKay describes the segregation camp in which he was quarantined before being sent to Bramshott.

Bleeding badly

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.

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