Word: flowerdew
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...book without concluding that the course of these sprawling, murderous battles was often changed by individuals or small groups of men, whose sense of honor, courage, comradeship or simple professional efficiency drove them to extreme effort. Toland's most touching example: a Canadian cavalry officer named Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, who was exhorted to lead a squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse straight at entrenched machine gunners on a ridge. Flowerdew, Toland writes, "a mild-looking young man, smiled gently as they started forward. 'I know, sir. I know it is a splendid moment. I will...
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