Excerpt from The Canadians in France: 1915-1918 IN the record which follows, the reader will find a detailed though entirely unofficial - history of the Canadian Army Corps, that great force of four divisions and Corps Troops which won for the Dominion the praise of the world as the mother of warrior sons. Certain points in connection with the work require explana tion. I have dealt solely with the operations of the Corps in the presence of the enemy. Events not actually connected with the operations have been omitted, except when of peculiar importance or essential to the proper understanding of the narrative. As a result, non-combatant units and those not normally concerned with the all-important work of killing Germans may appear to suffer. I have given these credit for their performances in certain places. The reader must look upon these troops as the invisible parts of the machine, as necessary to its efficiency as the fighting men and without which the entire mechanism would break down. It has not been possible to mention all persons who earned the right to have their individual achievements set down in history. If this were done, the book would be merely a directory. But many hundreds of gallant officers and men receive their due. Care has been taken in defining the identity of units. All troops referred to are Canadians and infantry unless otherwise stated. The term Imperial has been used to indicate tr00ps recruited in the British Isles, except in the case of units of the Tank Corps and Royal Air Force, which were all raised in the United Kingdom and so need no such distinction. Readers who desire to ascertain the areas from which various Canadian battalions, etc., were drawn are referred to the Appendix. 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.