Excerpt from Fourth Canadian Infantry Brigade: History of Operations, April, 1915, to Demobilization The Division moved in due course. On the 11th, Major Walker H. Bell, of the Brigade Staff, left for France with an advance party of the 4th Brigade, which was to lead the Division. On the 14th the Brigade left sandling and embarked, but not all of it was destined to reach boulogne that night. The Brigade Staff and a large por tion of the 18th Battalion was on a boat which had a narrow escape. This steamer was rammed by a British destroyer and had to be towed into port next morning. Fortunately there were no casualties among the troops. From boulogne the Brigade went to st. Omer by train and then marched to eecke, where it went into billets. Here, on the 17th, it was inspected by major-general Alderson, Commander of the Canadian Corps - the arrival of the 2nd Division having changed Canada's representation in France from a Division to a Corps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.