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298 Tag Results for soldier
Louis James Lipsett
He earned credit for ordering men to urinate on handkerchiefs and cotton bandoliers as a basis for a primitive protection against German chlorine gas.
Sir Edward Whipple Bancroft Morrison
He reported how impressed he was with the coolness of his gunners in engagements that cost the 1st Canadian Division a third of its 18,000 troops.
Sir David Watson
He wrote, "My God! What an awful night we have had. Lost about 200 men & 6 officers of no.1 Coy. They are embedded in my mind to be ever forgotten."
Okill Massey Learmonth
“He caught enemy bombs and threw them back. When he could no longer fight because of his wounds, he continued to instruct his junior officers.”
Gordon Muriel Flowerdew
He had become a local hero in 1911 by helping to apprehend two robbers. It came as no surprise that he volunteered for service overseas.
Jean Brillant
He saw a machine-gun holding up his company’s left flank; he rushed and captured it himself and killed two machine-gunners.
Joseph Kaeble
Decorated with the Military Medal, he was also first French Canadian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest British distinction.
George Burdon McKean
Perhaps because of his size, and his aptitude, McKean was often assigned to scouting duties, creeping across no man’s land and reporting on the enemy.
James Duffy
Duffy quickly made a name for himself among the sporting fraternity by placing second in the 1911 running of the Ward Marathon.
George Taylor Richardson
He was aptly described as “a man who never gave a command he would not himself have executed willingly.”
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