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Currie, he was the prime general over the
whole British forces. I saw him and
he was a fat man, kind of fat and one thing and
another but he was a very, his history was that
he joined a regiment out in Vancouver as a
private and decided in about a year or two he
would become the OC, he was that good at it and
he was fat, you wouldn't think he was a soldier at all.
They had to have a very strong horse
to carry him when he was on horseback but
he knew exactly what to do and everything.
And Currie wanted it, he wanted intelligence
and he got all the battalions to organize trench raids.
When they were in the line there and
they had the Germans out of it and the Canadians
became experts at raiding the other fellows to
capture a few prisoners and find out so they
could bring them back and question them and
find out who if there were any significant
movement or anything of the other troops that
would indicate if there was going to be
any an attack. Currie had that going all the time.
These trench raids, capturing a few troops,
the Germans. The Canadians learned,
they excelled at that, this business of trench raids -
going over in the middle of the night and
grabbing off a few prisoners.
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