C.M.G. 1 D.S.O. 4 Bar to D.S.O. 1 M.C. 34 Bar to M.C. 3 D.C.M. 15 M.S.M. 4 M.M. 166 Bar to M.M. 12 Croix de Guerre 5 Mentioned in Despatches twice 4 Mentioned in Despatches-Officers 0 Mentioned in Despatches-Warrant Officers 1 ——— Total 259 The first “big show” or engagement in which the 85th Battalion took part was that of Vimy Ridge. Theirs was not at first an envious situation. The Battalion had been substituted for another in the 12th Brigade, but the actual taking over did not ensue till after the Battle of Vimy Ridge. For that engagement the 85th was attached to the 11th Brigade, commanded by Brigadier-General Odlum. For the Battle of Vimy Ridge the 85th moved into position in the reserves, and was to serve as “a working Unit,” that is, to follow up the troops in action, and to carry ammunition, build dugouts, keep up communication trenches, clear wire entanglements, and in general, as the phrase is, “to mop up.” The 85th, of course, could be called on, as they were, to fight in an emergency. But they were regarded as “green troops,” and it was not considered likely by the authorities that the Battalion would be efficient and steady under slaughterous fire. As a matter of fact, all the while between the Battalion’s arrival at Gouy Servins till the Unit moved out from quarters into the reserve at Music Hall Line for their part in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. A. H. Borden, the Second in Command, Lieut.-Col. E. C. Phinney, the Adjutant, Major J. L. Ralston, and Assistant Adjutant, Lieut. A. T. Croft, had been preparing the Battalion as much for a fighting Unit as for a working Unit—having had the German lines at Vimy all taped out to scale, and having trained the Unit in every detail of the coming operation, until all ranks knew the precise “lay” of the Vimy Front and how the fighting Units as such would operate in action. Thus considered, the 85th Battalion was not a Unit of “green troops” in the ordinary acceptance of the phrase. They were “ready for fight”—and unexpectedly they got their chance, and achieved to their immortal glory.