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Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Canadian corps tramways on way through ruins of village to get water. Desolation and ruin marked- the scenes of fighting in this section. CANADAS PART IN THE WAR 347
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King George of Great Britain and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. 348 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK these three battalions fought on in andnear St. JuUen for hours, until their am-munition was exhausted. Then, no pro-spect of help being in sight, they fell intothe hands of the enemy. The devotion ofthese men, who virtually played the partof a rearguard and enabled new defensesto be manned in their rear, never should beforgotten. The withdrawal of the Third Brigade,which was necessaiy to avoid complete an-nihilation, made matters more difficult forthe Second Brigade, on the right of theThird, for it left the left flank of the Sec-ond exposed in much the same way as theleft flank of the Tliird had been exposedby the sudden flight of the colored Frenchtroops. Brig.-General Currie, later com-mander of the Canadian Army Corps offour divisions, totalling 76,000 men, was in(charge of the Second Brigade, and he im-mediately swung back his left flank, dugin and held on. Here it was that GeneralCurrie wo

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