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007 - Operations Aug 9-11 · Canadas Hundred Days The Battle of Amiens

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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Mike Vendetti, Canyon City, Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Vendetti dot com. Canada's Hundred Days by John Leaveley,
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  Speaker 1: Part one, Chapter seven, Operations August nine through the eleventh.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen how on the opening day all the
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  Speaker 1: objectives had been captured except the town of Le Croisson
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  Speaker 1: on our extreme right, a strong position the enemy was
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  Speaker 1: able to hold because the French were not up on
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  Speaker 1: our flank. Plans for the renewal of the attack next
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  Speaker 1: day depended on an early clearing up of this situation
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  Speaker 1: by the fourth Canadian Division, and accordingly the eleventh Brigade
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  Speaker 1: was entrusted with the task. The seventy fifth Battalion, recruited
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  Speaker 1: from central and western Ontario, advanced by night to the assault,
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  Speaker 1: while the eighty seventh Battalion, the Grenadier Guards of Montreal,
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  Speaker 1: was to make a flank march across the enemy front,
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  Speaker 1: passing south of the roy Road and thence falling on
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  Speaker 1: the enemy's flank. These battalions had to take up their
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  Speaker 1: positions for The attack in the dark by the stars
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  Speaker 1: and their maps encompasses a difficult operation, but starting off
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  Speaker 1: at four thirty am, they were on their appointed ground
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  Speaker 1: by six o'clock, when aided by an intensive barrage, the
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  Speaker 1: attack was successfully pushed home. An amusing incident was the
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  Speaker 1: wager made between the brigadier and Lieutenant Colonel C. C.
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  Speaker 1: Harborttle of the seventy fifth as to which would first
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  Speaker 1: occupy the enemy divisional headquarters, known to be in La Quansall.
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  Speaker 1: The battalion commander won out by a short space and
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  Speaker 1: the brigade had to be content with less pretentious headquarters
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  Speaker 1: to return to the narrative of the core commander quote.
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  Speaker 1: On the following day, August ninth, the advance was continued
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  Speaker 1: viued with the third, First, and second Canadian divisions in
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  Speaker 1: the line, the fourth Canadian Division being held in Coreps reserved.
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  Speaker 1: Substantial progress was made and by evening the average depth
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  Speaker 1: of our advance was about four miles, with a maximum
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  Speaker 1: of six and a half miles at some points. The
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  Speaker 1: following additional villages were captured. They once Auld Floyes, Beaucheore, Beaufort,
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  Speaker 1: Warbel's Robe Verre, Monchon, and Rissell's. The infantry and tanks
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  Speaker 1: of the third Canadian Division and the Canadian Independent Force
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  Speaker 1: cooperated with French in the capture of arvees. During the day,
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  Speaker 1: the enemies resistance stiffened considerably, and whatever gains were made
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  Speaker 1: resulted from heavy infantry fighting against fresh troops with only
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  Speaker 1: a few tanks available for support. This advance had brought
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  Speaker 1: our troops within the area of the trenches and defenses
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  Speaker 1: occupied prior to the so Manier operations of nineteen sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: These trenches, while not in a good state of repair,
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  Speaker 1: were nevertheless protected by a considerable amount of wire and
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  Speaker 1: lent themselves readily to a very stubborn machine gun defense.
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  Speaker 1: The battle had indeed assumed an entirely different character. Although
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  Speaker 1: an average of six thousand yards was gained during the day,
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  Speaker 1: it was only at cost to very heavy ding dong
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  Speaker 1: fighting with the best will in the world. It took
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  Speaker 1: time to bring up the artillery. Canadian Railway troops were
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  Speaker 1: engaged in pushing up the railhead from Amiens, but progress
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  Speaker 1: was slow in face of fresh enemy divisions. It was
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  Speaker 1: necessary to proceed with utmost caution and not expose our
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  Speaker 1: troops to needless losses unless the gain was positive, but
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of the men continued wonderful. In fact, Sir
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Curry found in his visits to advanced dressing stations
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  Speaker 1: many of our wounded anxious to get back into the line.
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  Speaker 1: The day's attack had been designed to open early in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, the glimmer of dawn being the favorite hour
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  Speaker 1: of the Canadian Corps, but until Lake was now fell,
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  Speaker 1: this plan had to be postponed, and changes were also
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  Speaker 1: necessary in the alignment of the divisions, our second division
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  Speaker 1: extending its area further south, forcing the first division to
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  Speaker 1: side slip south about five thousand yards. All this took time,
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  Speaker 1: and the kickoff did not therefore take place until well
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  Speaker 1: on in the day. The task assigned the Corps on
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  Speaker 1: August ninth was not so formidable to all seeming as
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  Speaker 1: that accomplished on the previous day. It meant an attack
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  Speaker 1: on a five mile front to a depth of about
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  Speaker 1: three and a half miles. The objective was the Bouschwire
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  Speaker 1: Robroy Marricote Road. The country was almost flat, very open,
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  Speaker 1: with only a few villages and small woods scattered over it.
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  Speaker 1: The attack was to be carried out by the third,
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  Speaker 1: First and Second divisions from right to left. The third
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  Speaker 1: division had to advance down the Roy Road and capture
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  Speaker 1: Folet m Bouchore. The first division had the villages of Beaufort,
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  Speaker 1: Warvales and Roverroi on its front, while the second division
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  Speaker 1: was responsible for Verlais, Rosaires and Maricourt on the right.
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  Speaker 1: As has been seen, the third division not only secured
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  Speaker 1: their objectives but went out of the Cores area to
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  Speaker 1: assist the French in capturing arblaiers in the center. On
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  Speaker 1: the first division front, the first brigade was sent in
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  Speaker 1: to capture Beaufort and Roue Valois, and the second brigade
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  Speaker 1: against Warblaires. The first brigade attacked with the first Battalion
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  Speaker 1: Western Ontario and fourth Battalion Central Ontario in the line,
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  Speaker 1: the second Battalion Ottawa in support, and the third Battalion
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  Speaker 1: recruited from Toronto District in reserve. The attack was supported
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  Speaker 1: by two batteries of machine guns and the first gate
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  Speaker 1: of field artillery covered the advance from the outset. The
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  Speaker 1: attacking troops came under a heavy machine gun fire from
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  Speaker 1: the high ground on the right. In order to deal
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  Speaker 1: with it, the right flank troops of the first Division
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  Speaker 1: were deflected south, the second Battalion being pushed forward to
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  Speaker 1: fill the gap. Thereafter, fighting right through to the objective,
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  Speaker 1: the second Brigade was able to make rapid progress in
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  Speaker 1: the early stage of the attack, outstripping the troops on
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  Speaker 1: its right. By the time Werthvais was reached, this village
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  Speaker 1: and the woods immediately to the south of it were
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  Speaker 1: captured by the aid of tanks, but with little difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: But on the extreme right in the early stage of
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  Speaker 1: the attack, serious resistance was encountered, coming from a Nesta
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  Speaker 1: machine guns in Hatchet Wood. The second Brigade attacked with
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  Speaker 1: the fifth Battalion Saskatchewan and the eighth Battalion of Winnipeg,
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  Speaker 1: and there came up in support two battalions of the
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  Speaker 1: third Brigade, the fifteen recruited from the forty eighth Highlanders
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  Speaker 1: of Toronto and the fourteenth Royal Montreal Regiment. The intensive
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  Speaker 1: fighting on this front was fruitful of many individual deeds
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  Speaker 1: of gallantry. Thus, when his platoon came unexpectedly under fire
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  Speaker 1: of numerous machine guns, acting Sergeant George Frederick Coffins of
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  Speaker 1: the eighth Battalion, a native of London, England, finding that
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  Speaker 1: it was not possible to advance nor retire, and when
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  Speaker 1: no cover being available, it was apparent that the platoon
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  Speaker 1: must be annihilated unless the machine guns were at once silenced.
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  Speaker 1: Called for four volunteers to follow him, and leaped forward
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  Speaker 1: in the face of intense machine gun fire. With his comrades,
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  Speaker 1: he rushed straight for the machine guns. The four men
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  Speaker 1: with him were killed and Corporal Coffins wounded. Despite his wounds,
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  Speaker 1: he reached the hostile machine guns alone, killed the operator
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  Speaker 1: of the first gun and three of the crew, and
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  Speaker 1: made prisoners of four others. Bold initiative on the part
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  Speaker 1: of Sergeant d Zingle, fifth Battalion of Wolford, Alberta save
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  Speaker 1: the lives of many of his comrades. He was leading
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  Speaker 1: his platoon forward gallantly to the attack east of Warverelles,
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  Speaker 1: but had not gone far when he realized that a
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  Speaker 1: gap had occurred in his flank and that an enemy
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  Speaker 1: machine gun was firing at close range into the advancing line.
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  Speaker 1: Grasping the situation, he rushed forward some two hundred yards
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the platoon, tackled the machine gun in placement,
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  Speaker 1: killed the officer and operator of the gun, and dispersed
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  Speaker 1: the crew. Later, when the battalion was held up by
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  Speaker 1: very heavy machine gun fire, he displayed much tactical skill
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  Speaker 1: and directed his fire with destructive results. Shortly afterwards he
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  Speaker 1: was rendered unconscious by an enemy shell, but on recovering
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  Speaker 1: consciousness he at once continued to direct harassing fire on
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  Speaker 1: the enemy. Twelve tanks supported the First Canadian Division this day,
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  Speaker 1: six with each brigade aid, and all did valuable service.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, the divisional commander secured some whippet tanks from
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  Speaker 1: the Cavalry Corps, and these were of assistance in clearing
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  Speaker 1: Beaufort Wood. Meanwhile, on our left, in touch with the Australians,
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  Speaker 1: the Second Canadian Division had exceedingly stiff fighting. At eleven
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  Speaker 1: a m. The fifth Brigade attacked on the right and
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  Speaker 1: the sixth Brigade on the left, with the fourth Brigade
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  Speaker 1: in reserve. The fifth had in line the twenty fifth
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  Speaker 1: Battalion Nova Scotia on the right and the twenty second
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  Speaker 1: Battalion French Canadians on the left, and advanced under very
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  Speaker 1: heavy fire on Mary Court. Earlier in the day, this
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  Speaker 1: town had been ridden over by the eighth Hausers, but
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  Speaker 1: it was again in the hands of the enemy. The
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  Speaker 1: position was studded with machine gun posts, the enemy being
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  Speaker 1: in great strength along the ravine from Verlat to Merricourt,
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  Speaker 1: and the men fought their way forward, slowly reducing these
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  Speaker 1: strong holds in succession. The two battalions worked their way
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  Speaker 1: forward with the greatest gallantry, and final only stormed Maricourt
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  Speaker 1: at five PM, clearing the village and establishing a line
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  Speaker 1: in front of it. They were, here, however, exposed to
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  Speaker 1: the point blank fire of a battery at Marcourt. The
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth Battalion Victoria Rifles of Montreal and the twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixth Battalion New Brunswick came up in support and the
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  Speaker 1: line was consolidated. Brigadier General J. M. Ross was severely wounded,
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  Speaker 1: being incapacitated for several months, command of the fifth Brigade,
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  Speaker 1: developing upon Lieutenant Colonel T. L. Trembley of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: second Battalion On our extreme left. The sixth Brigade had
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  Speaker 1: before it the considerable town of Rochers, supported by the
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  Speaker 1: railway embankment, and here the enemy was in great force,
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  Speaker 1: having established numerous machine gun posts in the suburbs. Although
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  Speaker 1: the general attack of the Second Canadian Division was not
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  Speaker 1: to take place until eleven a m. The battalion are left.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty seventh of Manitoba attacked at eight a m
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  Speaker 1: in conjunction with the Australians and not to hold up
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  Speaker 1: their advance. In its advance, the battalion was exposed to
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  Speaker 1: infilate fire from both flanks and fought its way forward
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  Speaker 1: with the greatest difficulty, but with grim determination. It was
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  Speaker 1: indeed one of the hardest fights of its history, and
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  Speaker 1: it suffered heavy casualties before its troops entered the town
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  Speaker 1: at a quarter past one that afternoon. Here, many prisoners
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  Speaker 1: and much booty was captured. On the brigade right, The
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth Battalion of Vancouver did not kick off until
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  Speaker 1: eleven a m, synchronizing its advance with that of the
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  Speaker 1: fifth Brigade on its right. It was held up to
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  Speaker 1: by heavy flank fire from the direction of rose Errs,
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  Speaker 1: and it had a hard battle all the way, suffering
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty casualties. In rose Aheres, the battalion
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  Speaker 1: captured an eleven inch naval gun mounted on a railway truck.
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  Speaker 1: In the afternoon, the sixth Brigade proceeded to the capture
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  Speaker 1: of its final objective for the day. In the high
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  Speaker 1: church tower of Roziers. One of our batteries established an
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  Speaker 1: old pip observation post, and this elevation gave a fine
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  Speaker 1: view of the battle both north and south. About a
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  Speaker 1: mile east of Roses could be seen lying on the
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  Speaker 1: track an entire enemy train, which laden with reinforcements, had
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  Speaker 1: been captured by Imperial cavalry. This church tower was a
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  Speaker 1: conspicuous mark to the enemy batteries further east, and not
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  Speaker 1: many hours passed before they brought it down On her left.
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  Speaker 1: Australian troops had storm Lyons, thus thrusting a sharp salient
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  Speaker 1: into the enemy defense, and their line thence fell back
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  Speaker 1: northwesterly through Rhinecourt and Proyart to Morecourt on the Somme.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy, however, attacked in great force, and the Australians
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  Speaker 1: were obliged to fall back from both Lyons and Priort,
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  Speaker 1: converting for the time being our position at Maricourt into
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  Speaker 1: a fighting of the same character. Continued next day, August tenth.
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  Speaker 1: The attack was continued on the morning of August tenth,
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  Speaker 1: says Sir Arthur Curry, with the third Canadian Division on
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  Speaker 1: the right and the fourth Canadian Division on the left,
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  Speaker 1: the first and second divisions being held in Corps reserve.
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  Speaker 1: After the third Canadian Division had taken the village of Lequesnois,
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  Speaker 1: the thirty second British Division, which had come under the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian Corps on the night of August ninth through the
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  Speaker 1: tenth passed through it and advanced the line somewhat further
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  Speaker 1: from the old British trenches west of Barvara's and Dame
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  Speaker 1: ray Ray. The fourth Canadian Division during the day succeeded
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  Speaker 1: after very hard fighting in occupying Foulquestcourt, Maulcourt, Chile, and Halloo.
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  Speaker 1: The capture of Fouquetscourt was particularly valuable in view of
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  Speaker 1: preparations and progress fro an attack on a strong ending
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  Speaker 1: position between that village and the Roy Road. Desperate fighting
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  Speaker 1: took place on the fourth Canadian divisional front, where our
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  Speaker 1: left flank still presented a pronounced salient. On the divisional right,
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  Speaker 1: the tenth Brigade bought its way forward through a maze
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  Speaker 1: of enemy machine gun positions in face of intensive artillery fire.
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  Speaker 1: All its battalions were heavily engaged at one stage or another,
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  Speaker 1: these being the forty fourth New Brunswick but originally recruited
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  Speaker 1: in the west, the forty sixth South Saskatchewan, the forty
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  Speaker 1: seventh Western Ontario, and the fiftieth Calgary. The twelfth Brigade,
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  Speaker 1: Briguer General J. H. McBrien carried on the attack on
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  Speaker 1: the left of our line from the neighborhood of Matcourt,
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  Speaker 1: storming Mockwort and Chile with the railway at Hallu the objective.
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  Speaker 1: The going was extraordinarily difficult, through a maze of trenches
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  Speaker 1: and wires studded with machine gun posts. The seventy eighth
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  Speaker 1: Battalion of Winnipeg fought its way right through to Hallou.
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  Speaker 1: The thirty eighth Battalion Ottawa also saw very heavy fighting
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  Speaker 1: in this sector, and in fact the whole brigade greatly
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  Speaker 1: distinguished itself, the other battalions being the seventy second British
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  Speaker 1: Columbia and the eighty fifth Nova Scotia. The eleventh Brigade
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  Speaker 1: came up in support and was also heavily engaged, and
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  Speaker 1: here the one hundred and second Battalion British Columbia held
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  Speaker 1: a critical position in face of very heavy loss, but
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  Speaker 1: the enemy was able to bring up more artillery and
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  Speaker 1: the salient was found untenable. During the night of August
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  Speaker 1: tenth to the eleventh, a strong enemy counterattack developed against
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  Speaker 1: a part of the front of the fourth Canadian Division
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  Speaker 1: east of Halloo, says the Corps commander. This counterattack was
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  Speaker 1: beaten off, but owing to general conditions, the line at
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  Speaker 1: the point was slightly withdrawn to the railway embankment immediately
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  Speaker 1: to the west of Hallou. Subsequent upon the slight withdrawal,
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  Speaker 1: and with a view to reducing the existing salient forward
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  Speaker 1: to Chile, the line was further withdrawn to the eastern
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  Speaker 1: outskirts of that village. On October eleventh, at nine thirty am,
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  Speaker 1: he goes On, the thirty second Division launched an attack
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  Speaker 1: against Damary, but was not successful. The Fourth Canadian Division
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  Speaker 1: improved their line by advancing it locally to reduce the
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  Speaker 1: Chile salient, which was still very pronounced. During the night
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  Speaker 1: of August eleventh through the twelfth, the thirty second Division
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  Speaker 1: and fourth Canadian Division were relieved by the third and
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  Speaker 1: the Second Canadian Divisions respectively. On August thirteenth, Sir Arthur
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  Speaker 1: Curry addressed a special order to his command as follows quote.
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  Speaker 1: The first stage of this Battle of amenings is over,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the most successful operations conducted by the
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  Speaker 1: Allied armies since the war began is now a matter
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  Speaker 1: of history. The Canadian Corps has every right to feel
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  Speaker 1: more than proud of the part it played to move
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  Speaker 1: the Corps from the Arreres front and in less than
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  Speaker 1: a week launch it in battle so many miles distant.
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  Speaker 1: Was in itself a splendid performance. Yet the splendor of
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  Speaker 1: that performance pales into insignificance when compared with what has
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  Speaker 1: been accomplished since zero hour on August eight. On that date,
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian Corps, to which was attached the third Cavalry Division,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth Tank Brigade, the fifth Squadron RAF attacked on
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  Speaker 1: a front of seventy five hundred yards After a penetration
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  Speaker 1: of twenty two thousand yards, The line tonight rests on
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  Speaker 1: a ten thousand yard frontage. Sixteen German divisions have been identified,
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  Speaker 1: of which four have been completely routed. Nearly one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty guns have been captured, while over one thousand
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  Speaker 1: machine guns have fallen into our hands. Ten thousand prisoners
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  Speaker 1: have passed through our cages and casualty clearing stations, a
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  Speaker 1: number greatly in excess of our total casualties, twenty five
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  Speaker 1: towns and villages have been rescued from the clutch of
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  Speaker 1: the invaders. The Paris I means railway has been freed
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  Speaker 1: from interference, and the danger of dividing the French and
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  Speaker 1: British armies has been dissipated. Canada has always placed the
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  Speaker 1: most implicit confidence in her army. How nobly has that
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  Speaker 1: confidence been justified? And with what pride has the story
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  Speaker 1: of your gallant success been read in the homeland. This
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  Speaker 1: magnificent victory has been won because your training was good,
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  Speaker 1: your discipline was good, your leadership was good. Given these three,
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  Speaker 1: success must always come from the depths of a very
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  Speaker 1: full heart. I wish to thank all staffs and services,
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  Speaker 1: the infantry, the artillery, the cavalry, the engineers, the machine gunners,
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  Speaker 1: the independent forces consisting of the motor machine gun brigades
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  Speaker 1: and the cyclists, the tank battalions, the RAF, the medical services,
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  Speaker 1: the Army Service Corps, the Ordnance Corps, the Veterinary Corps
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  Speaker 1: and the chaplain services for their splendid support and cooperation.
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  Speaker 1: And to congratulate you all on the wonderful success achieved.
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  Speaker 1: Let us remember our gallant dead, whose spirit shall ever
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  Speaker 1: be with us, inspiring us to nobler effort. And when
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  Speaker 1: the call again comes, be it soon or otherwise, I
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  Speaker 1: know the same measure of success will be yours. End quote,
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  Speaker 1: end of Part one, Chapter seven, recording by Mike Vendetti,
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