TO
GENERAL SIR ARTHUR CURRIE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.,
THE CIVILIAN COMMANDER OF THE
CONQUERING CANADIAN CIVILIAN ARMY
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR
IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
COURTESIES EXTENDED TO HIM.
AUTHOR'S FOREWORD
The articles which go to make up this little book were written for newspaper publication immediately following the journey over the battlefields, in France in March, 1919, which I had been enabled to make, through the courtesy and kindness of the Canadian Corps Commander. They were published in April, 1919, in the Manitoba Free Press, Winnipeg; and are now republished at the request of many friends who have asked that they be made available in more permanent form.
Though the articles reveal their journalistic origin alike in their form and in a certain evanescent timeliness, already partly out of date, it has not been considered advisable, under the circumstances, to re-cast them into more permanent form. They are re-published as written save for some slight textual corrections.
J.W.D.
CONTENTS
[A Landmark of the Canadian Battlefields] . . . Frontispiece
Chapter I. [A Hurried Pilgrimage]
Chapter II. [The Battlegrounds of the Souchez]
Chapter III. [The Abomination of Desolation]
Chapter IV. [The Marks of War]
Chapter V. [The Canadian Hammer Strokes]
Chapter VI. [The Civilian as Warrior]
Chapter VII. [Compensations]