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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.

Dogfight at 6,000 feet

Mr. Hatch describes being wounded in the head, blinded by his own blood, and not remembering how he landed his aircraft after a dogfight with a German aircraft.

Machine Gunner

Mr. Hatch describes with some amusement his roller coaster transfer from the army to the air force.

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.

They used gas on us

Mr. Huckerby describes having to wade through four feet (over a metre) of water in the trenches, and being gassed during a night raid.

Date modified:: 2019-02-19