The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . The City of Valenciennes in flames after evacuation by the Germans. 332 THE PEOPLES WAE BOOK. German prisoners bringing in a Canadian wounded on a novel contrivance. of the fliers of the British army was a Can-adian. The most suecessfnl allied aviatorin the war was W. A. Bishop, the wonder-ful flier from Owen Sonnd, in Ontario, whorose to the rank of , aftershootins: down 72 German planes. Canadaalso enlisted several Imndred doctors andveterinarians for overseas service andsome 200 nurses. During
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . The City of Valenciennes in flames after evacuation by the Germans. 332 THE PEOPLES WAE BOOK. German prisoners bringing in a Canadian wounded on a novel contrivance. of the fliers of the British army was a Can-adian. The most suecessfnl allied aviatorin the war was W. A. Bishop, the wonder-ful flier from Owen Sonnd, in Ontario, whorose to the rank of , aftershootins: down 72 German planes. Canadaalso enlisted several Imndred doctors andveterinarians for overseas service andsome 200 nurses. During the war Canada sent overseas tothe great struggle in Europe more thanone in twenty of her population. For mi)rethan two years she maintained at the frontunder the decimating fire of the enemy con-siderably more than the total number of men Britain had obligated the empire, un-der certain circumstances, to put into ac-tion on the continent. When the armisticebrought the fighting to a close this singledominion of the British empire was repre-sented in the western arena by seven timesas many men as fought in British uniformsat Waterloo, a century before. Duringthe struggle
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