Yep as usual Canada gets forgotten. The Canadian Expeditionary Force
fielded a full corps in France for most of the duration of the war, in fact
The Canadian Corps successfully took Vimy Ridge after the French and the
brits had their go at it, and we were active in Flanders as well. It was a
Candian Royal Medical Corpsman Maj. MacRae who penned the most famous peice
of poetry to come out of that War "In Flanders Fields"
Also Canda's contibution in to the air war was all out of proportion to her
population, if I recall corectly, we had 3 or four of the top 10 allied air
aces, including Billy Bishop, and Capt. Brown who is credited with shooting
down Manfred von Richtoffen, aka The Red Baron.(and for the Aussies, yes I
know one of your anti-aircraft batteries claimed the kill, but according to
the autopsy he'd have to have been flying upside down and in the other
direction to have been shot down by your gunners <smile>)
Greg Kirk
Canadian Expatriate
At 06:19 PM 12/11/97 EST, ROBERT G. HOWARD wrote:
>Philip,
>The US was involved in WWI, though not to the extent of the UK,
>certainly. The involvement of two of my uncles was sufficient to get one
>buried in France and the other gassed so that his lungs were never right
>thereafter. I believe that the US Expeditionary forces suffered only 50M
>casualties. Incredible, isn't it, that that number is only a small
>fraction of the ones the Tommys suffered, not to mention the Belgians,
>French, Alsations and all the rest who got dragged into the
>conflagration.
>Bob
>
>
>On Thu, 11 Dec 97 21:25:22 -0000 Phil <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk> writes:
>>On 11/12/97 8:36 pm ROBERT G. HOWARD said
>>
>>> No, unfortunately. Gallipoli in this reference is something far
>>worse,
>>>one of the incomprehensible human events that call into question the
>>idea
>>>that mankind is on the top of the evolutionary pyramid.
>>> Gallipoli is a peninsula on the west side of the Dardanelles.
>>During
>>>WWI, it was decided by the Brits that the peninsula should be invaded
>>>from the sea, the territory being Turkish and Turkey being an ally of
>>>Germany. The lads directed to do the landings were, principally, from
>>New
>>>Zealand and Australia. The invasion was a disaster, and the troops
>>on
>>>shore were left there without reinforcement for weeks. In addition to
>>a
>>>disaster, it was a disgrace for the casualty rate was appalling.
>>WWI is
>>>noted today for its casualty rates, and the dogged determination of
>>>strategic planners to continue pushing an immovable object against an
>>>irresistible force.
>>
>>Sounds terrible. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the
>>US
>>wasn't involved in WW1?
>>
>>Philip Raby
>>Editor, MG World
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>>
>>
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