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...Gallishaw, having gone through the Gallipoli campaign as a member of the Newfoundland Regiment, described the hardships of the expedition from first hand experience. "Ypres, considered the worst sector on the Western front, I later learned was a Paradise compared to Gallipoli. In the latter place we were handicapped by the adobe soil, in which only shallow ditches could be dug for shelter. These and our pith helmets were hardly protection against snipers and shrapnel...
...like Galilee has without doubt done more to change the world for the beter, to educate in the highest sense and to make new manhood, than if Christ had built universities, endowed hospitals, donated libraries--all of which would have perished long ago like the cloth-workers hall at Ypres. So, is not the greatest thing college men or any other men can do for Labrador to live out a similar Knighthood there, even if it is only for a few months? I rather fancy Nathan Hale did a good deal for the United States of America...
...personnel and its military efficiency. It served with distinction in the Spanish War, and on the Mexican Border in 1916. As the 105th Machine Gun Battalion of the 27th New York Division, it served in Flanders and in France and participated in every engagement of that Division from the Ypres salient to the breaking of the Hindenburg line between Cambral and St. Quentin, and in the subsequent operations up to the Sambre Canal...
...February, 1917 Col. Cabot definitely took over the unit which had increased from five hundred and forty to three thousand beds. By far the larger number of the patients were British and Canadians who had been wounded in the fighting around Ypres. At one time, during the German offensive of March, 1918, twelve hundred patients were received by the unit within twenty-four hours...
Last Saturday we heard of the Germans on Kemmel Hill, of Ypres almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit...