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    In the Ypres Salient, The Story of a Fortnight’s Canadian Fighting, June 2-16 1916 [Illustrated Edition]
    In the Ypres Salient, The Story of a Fortnight’s Canadian Fighting, June 2-16 1916 [Illustrated Edition]
    In the Ypres Salient, The Story of a Fortnight’s Canadian Fighting, June 2-16 1916 [Illustrated Edition]
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    In the Ypres Salient, The Story of a Fortnight’s Canadian Fighting, June 2-16 1916 [Illustrated Edition]

    By Beckles Willson

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    Every evening since 1928, the Last Post is sounded in the town of Ypres in West Flanders, and the local fire brigade turn toward the Menin Gate as the local traffic stops. This Mark of respect to the Allied soldiers who fell defending the Ypres salient has been a tradition in the town for almost one hundred years. Tens of thousands of British, French, Canadian, Australian, Indian, New Zealand, South African and other Dominion troops came, fought and died to hold this little outpost of Belgium during the First World War.
    To comprehend and record the scale of the actions, battles and, most importantly, the human sacrifice of the four years of war, it is necessary to look at limited periods of the fighting. The author has picked one of the earliest baptisms of fire for the Canadian troops, the battle of Mount Sorrel in 1916. The Canadian Corps under Byng was holding the wooded ground south-east of Ypres town, including the important observation post Hill 62. Across the muddy front line, the German XIII Württemburg Corps was carefully planning an attack stiffened with much extra heavy artillery and trench mortars. On the 2nd of June, the German artillery shattered the morning’s peace, and heavy, savage fighting began only to cease on the 13th. The Battle was in the balance until the second and final counter attack by the Canadians on the 11th, as one Historian puts it: “A combination of excellent staff work and planning, brilliantly executed artillery work in poor weather and the formidable courage of the Canadian infantry, had saved the day.”—Chris Baker.
    Author — Willson, Beckles, 1869-1942.
    Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co. ltd., 1916.
    Original Page Count – 251 pages.
    Illustrations — 7 illustrations and maps.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerdun Press
    Release dateMar 2, 2013
    ISBN9781782890638
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      In the Ypres Salient, The Story of a Fortnight’s Canadian Fighting, June 2-16 1916 [Illustrated Edition] - Beckles Willson

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      Text originally published in 1916 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2013, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      IN THE YPRES

      SALIENT

      THE STORY OF A

      FORTNIGHT'S CANADIAN FIGHTING

      JUNE 2-16, 1916.

      BY

      BECKLES WILLSON,

      Author of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal,

      The Romance of Canada, etc., etc.

      TABLES OF CONTENT

      Contents

      TABLES OF CONTENT 2

      IN THE YPRES SALIENT. 3

      AVANT-PROPOS. 4

      DEDICATION 5

      PREFATORY NOTE ON THE  SALIENT 6

      WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE FIELD. 9

      I—June 3rd. 9

      II—June 4th. 17

      III—June 7th. 19

      IV.—June 14th. 21

      V.—June 15th. 26

      VI.—June 16th. 28

      VII.—June 23rd. 30

      EPILOGUE. 31

      YPRES, June 24th. 31

      APPENDIX. 33

      IN THE YPRES SALIENT.

      LONG after the issue of minor engagements in this War are forgotten, and when everybody has ceased to care whether at any moment we gained or lost a hundred yards of ground or a mile of trench, the memory of how the Canadians fought against hopeless odds near Hooge will be remembered, and Canada will be proud and the Empire will be proud of these men. Nor will Canada or the Empire ever forget—what every neutral in the world should be told to-day—how the Germans called these men cowards.

      The Times, June 12, 1916.

      AVANT-PROPOS.

      J'AI lu avec un réel plaisir et avec le plus grand intérêt cette narration de la sublime résistance et les memorables succès des armées britanniques et spécialement de celles du Canada.

      Si notre citée est restée inviolées, c'est à elles que nous le devons. Lors de son passage à Ypres, les 7 et 8 octobre, 1914, l'armée allemande, en me faisant son otage, me menaça d'un prompt retour dans notre ville, qu'elle appelait orgueilleusement et avec emphase la clef de Calais, porte d'Angleterre. Vos héroïques guerriers ont brisé la clef et fermé la porte, et pendant près de deux ans ils ont rendu vains tous les efforts d'un ennemi supérieur en nombre.

      La victoire approche. Bientôt le soleil de la délivrance luira sur le saillant d'Ypres, inondé du sang de vos héros, tombé pour le droit et la civilisation. Nous sèmerons sur leurs tombeaux des lauriers et des roses; nous célébrons l'Angleterre et le Canada, pendant que nos courageuses populations, rentrés dans leur pays, travailleront, le front baigné de sueur, à la reconstitution de leurs villes et villages détruits.

      Et vous qui nous aurez donné la délivrance, vous contribuerez, n'est-ce pas, à notre résurrection.

      DEDICATION

      to the Memory

      OF

      MAJOR-GENERAL

      MALCOLM SMITH MERCER,

      COB.

      PREFATORY NOTE ON THE

      SALIENT

      ON October 16th, 1914, the Ypres Salient, the theatre of three of the most deadly and critical battles in this War, was born. Up to that date the area it comprises—a few thousand acres at most—was merely a tract of well-tilled Flemish meadowland,

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