After Vimy the Regiment took part in the following major actions:—Avion, June, 1917; Hill 70, July, 1917; Passchendaele, October and November, 1917 (in the latter period eleven hostile attacks were successfully repelled); Amiens, 1918, where the Regiment was on the extreme right successfully operating with the French; Monchy, August, 1918; Cambrai, where Lieut. M. F. Gregg won his V.C.; Forêt de Raisines, Valenciennes; and last, but not least, the dramatic capture of the world famous Mons. The credit for the first to enter Mons has been claimed by the 42nd Battalion. This is a moot point, and is probably due to the fact that a Company of the Royal Canadian Regiment was detached to the 42nd and entered the City from the S.E. The indubitable fact remains that Lieut. W. M. King of the R.C.R. was the first to reach the square, where he was received by the Mayor at the Town Hall with his platoon, and where he signed the Golden Book of Mons, which was given by King Albert to the City on his departure in 1914. The Regiment returned to Canada and the C.E.F. personnel was demobilized at Halifax on 10th March, 1919. The following distinctions and awards were gained by the Regiment in the war of 1914–18:— V.C. 1 G.B.E. 1 C.M.G. 4 C.B.E. 1 D.S.O. 11 O.B.E. 5 M.C. 37 Bar to M.C. 5 D.F.C. 1 D.C.M. 24 Bar to D.C.M. 1 M.M. 128 Bar to M.M. 10 M.S.M. 10 Foreign Decorations. 15 Mentions. 35 Commissions from the ranks: Lieut.-Colonel. 1 Major. 5 Captain. 14 Lieutenant. 28 2nd Lieutenant. 4 CHAPTER X. _THE 17th BATTALION, C.E.F._ When war clouds lowered on the European horizon in July, 1914, it would have been strange had the men of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, not been among the first to recognize their duty to civilization and the Empire. [Illustration: LIEUT.-COL. STRUAN G. ROBERTSON.]