Produced by Al Haines.
[Illustration: A Landmark of the Canadian Battlefields]
These ruined towers of the Church and Monastery of Mont St. Eloi--relics
of the revolutionary wars of France--overlook the Battlefields of Vimy
Ridge and Arras, and were a familiar landmark to tens of thousands of
Canadian soldiers during the war.
*Over the
Canadian Battlefields*
_*Notes of a Little Journey in France,
in March, 1919*_
By
JOHN W. DAFOE
THOMAS ALLEN
TORONTO
COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1919
BY THOMAS ALLEN, TORONTO
PRINTED IN CANADA
TO
GENERAL SIR ARTHUR CURRIE, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.,
THE CIVILIAN COMMANDER OF THE
CONQUERING CANADIAN CIVILIAN ARMY
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR
IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
COURTESIES EXTENDED TO HIM.
*AUTHOR'S FOREWORD*
The articles which go to make up this little book were written for
newspaper publication immediately following the journey over the
battlefields, in France in March, 1919, which I had been enabled to
make, through the courtesy and kindness of the Canadian Corps Commander.
They were published in April, 1919, in the Manitoba _Free Press_,
Winnipeg; and are now republished at the request of many friends who
have asked that they be made available in more permanent form.
Though the articles reveal their journalistic origin alike in their form
and in a certain evanescent timeliness, already partly out of date, it
has not been considered advisable, under the circumstances, to re-cast
them into more permanent form. They are re-published as written save
for some slight textual corrections.
J.W.D.
*CONTENTS*
A Landmark of the Canadian Battlefields . . . _Frontispiece_
Dedication
Author's Foreword
Chapter I. A Hurried Pilgrimage