Word: cambrai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News wrote: "The war is a washout-figuratively and actually." Rain had reduced the Cambrai plain to a snipe bog, and "no gun has yet been fired in anger." Wire enclosures were built to hold German prisoners, but stood empty...
...Frederick Banting, University of Toronto's professor of medical research and co-discoverer with John Macleod of insulin; as an officer in the 15th General Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps. In World War I Researcher Banting was wounded at Cambrai, France, won the Military Cross...
...Hart's A History of the World War, caustically analyzing the strategy of opposing generals, gives the impression that battles were almost as confusing to the professionals who planned and directed them. Readers who want to add to their knowledge of what happened at the Somme, the Marne, Cambrai, St. Mihiel, Mons-and why it happened as it did-can get some insight into the confusion from two recent volumes that review the history of the World War-one from a pacifist's, the other from a professional soldier's point of view-will find that...
...Cambrai's gloom and Argonne's shade...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy, 72, Wartime hero of Vimy Ridge and Cambrai, onetime (1921-26) Governor General of Canada; of heart failure following an emergency abdominal operation; at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England...