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By Dan Black, John Boileau

Among 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, a few as younger as ten, signed as much as struggle in Canada's militia within the First international struggle. They served within the trenches along their elders, and fought in all of the significant battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the remainder. Many have been injured or suffered mental wounds. Many died. this is often the 1st publication to inform their story.

Some boys joined as much as get away unsatisfied houses and places of work. Others went with their parents' blessing, sporting letters from fathers and moms asking the recruiters to take their keen sons. The romantic suggestion of a quick, successful crusade was once burnt up the second one those boys arrived at the Western entrance. The authors, who narrate the scuffling with with either army professionalism and humanity, painting many boys who, within the warmth of conflict, made a unbroken transition from follower to chief to hero.

Authors Dan Black and John Boileau combed the information and collections to convey those tales to existence. Passages from letters the boy squaddies wrote domestic exhibit the diversity of feelings and stories they underwent, from the funny to the unspeakably terrible. Their parents' letters contact us with their difficulty, love, uncertainty, and sometimes, grief. Meticulously researched and abundantly illustrated with images, work, and a suite of specifically commissioned maps, Old adequate to Fight is Canadian army and social background at its so much interesting.

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A second attack had driven in the 8th Brigade on the right, which enabled the Germans to get behind the two companies of the 13th King's Liverpool who were in the front line. These men fought to the end and were last seen standing on the parapet without a thought of surrender. At the same time a company of the Northumberland Fusiliers on their left shared their fate, save for one officer and twelve men who survived. The front line of the 8th Brigade had now ceased to exist, but the reserve line still held.

The division was worn to a shadow, and yet the moment that the German attack seemed to ease both they and the Fourth Division on their north advanced their front. In this single bloody day the Fifteenth Division lost 94 officers and 2223 men, but there can be no doubt that their action, with that of the Third Division and the Fourth on either side of them, was the main determining factor in the whole of this vast battle. C. of Colenso) with his Brigadiers, Hilliard, Allgood, and Lumsden, might well be proud of the way they held the pass.

Whilst these stirring events had been in progress in the south, the north of the line had slowly drawn back in order to preserve conformity. The Seventeenth Corps, as already stated, were to the west of Monchy, and the left of the Sixth Corps was on the line of Henin, where the Third Division occupied a strong defensive position. This was strongly attacked upon the forenoon of March 24, especially on the 8th Brigade front, which was the right of the line, the Germans swarming up from the south-east of Henin and trying hard to work up the Henin-Neuville-Vitasse road.

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