E-text prepared by Geetu Melwani, Christine P. Travers, Chuck Greif, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/c/) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 20655-h.htm or 20655-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/6/5/20655/20655-h/20655-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/6/5/20655/20655-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/theemmagees00mcbruoft Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. The original spelling has been retained. The illustrations' captions have been moved out of paragraphs, and their corresponding page numbers changed in the List of Illustrations. THE EMMA GEES by HERBERT W. McBRIDE Captain, U. S. A. Late Twenty-first Canadian Battalion Illustrated with Photographs and Trench Maps [Illustration: Bouchard] Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers Copyright 1918 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Press of Braunworth & Co. Book Manufacturers Brooklyn, N. Y. TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM EMMANUEL BOUCHARD Lance-Corporal Machine Gun Section Twenty-first Canadian Infantry Battalion KILLED IN ACTION, AT COURCELLETTE SEPTEMBER 15TH 1916 In Flanders' fields the crosses stand-- Strange harvest for a fertile land! Where once the wheat and barley grew, With scarlet poppies running through. This year the poppies bloom to greet Not oats nor barley nor white wheat, But only crosses, row by row, Where stalwart reapers used to go. _Harvest in Flanders_--Louise Driscoll INTRODUCTION When the final history of this war is written, it is doubtful if any other name will so appeal to the Canadian as Ypres and the Ypres Salient; every foot of which is hallowed ground to French, Belgians, British and Colonials alike; not a yard of which has not been consecrated to the cause of human liberty and baptized in the blood of democracy.