In the Ypres Salient : $b the story of a fortnight's Canadian fighting, June 2-16, 1916Willson, Beckles
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In the Ypres Salient : $b the story of a fortnight's Canadian fighting, June 2-16, 1916
Willson, Beckles
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Belgium
Produced by Al Haines.
[Illustration: THE YPRES SALIENT.
See Key on page 6
(_From the Picture copyrighted and published by
R. Dunthorne, Vigo Street, London, W._)]
IN THE YPRES
SALIENT
THE STORY OF A
FORTNIGHT’S CANADIAN FIGHTING
JUNE 2-16, 1916.
BY
BECKLES WILLSON,
_Author of "Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal,"
"The Romance of Canada" etc., etc._
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON
KENT & CO. LTD. 4 STATIONERS’
HALL COURT : : LONDON, E.C.
*IN THE YPRES SALIENT.*
Long after the issue of minor engagements in this War are forgotten, and
when everybody has ceased to care whether at any moment we gained or
lost a hundred yards of ground or a mile of trench, the memory of how
the Canadians fought against hopeless odds near Hooge will be
remembered, and Canada will be proud and the Empire will be proud of
these men. Nor will Canada or the Empire ever forget--what every
neutral in the world should be told to-day--how the Germans called these
men cowards.
_The Times, June_ 12, 1916.
*AVANT-PROPOS.*
Je saisis cette occasion pour rendre un nouveau hommage à l’armée
britannique, dont la longue et héroïque rèsistance a rendu notre ville
inviolée. Si Ypres a été détruite par les barbares germains en haine
d’Angleterre, notre magnanime protectrice, nous avons l’espoir que,
grâce à votre pays, la ville martyre ressuscitera aussi belle, si non
aussi prospère, qu’elle le fut aux siècles de sa splendeur. Déjà nous
avons un Vicomte d’Ypres portant un nom anglais! déjà des hommes
généreux de votre pays songent à faire reconstruire nos splendides
monuments. Pourquoi ne pourrions nous pas espérer que le sol d’Ypres,
arrosé du sang de vos enfants et où reposent vos héros morts pour nous,
verra prochainement surgir une ville digne du nom Anglais et de notre
ancienne renommée?
[Illustration: Signature of René Colaert, Bourgmestre d’Ypres]
To the Memory
OF
MAJOR-GENERAL
MALCOLM SMITH MERCER,
C.B.
[Illustration: KEY TO "THE YPRES SALIENT."
By W. L. WYLIE, R.A.]
*PREFATORY NOTE ON THE SALIENT*
On October 16th, 1914, the Ypres Salient, the theatre of three of the
most deadly and critical battles in this War, was born. Up to that date
the area it comprises--a few thousand acres at most--was merely a tract
of well-tilled Flemish meadowland, with patches of forest and here and
there a village or hamlet.
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