These ruined towers of the Church andMonastery of Mont St. Eloi—relics of the revolutionarywars of France—overlook the Battlefieldsof Vimy Ridge and Arras, and were a familiarlandmark to tens of thousands of Canadiansoldiers 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 thislittle book were written fornewspaper publication immediatelyfollowing the journey over the battlefields, inFrance in March, 1919, which I had beenenabled to make, through the courtesy andkindness of the Canadian CorpsCommander. They were published in April, 1919,in the Manitoba Free Press, Winnipeg; andare now republished at the request of manyfriends who have asked that they be madeavailable in more permanent form.
Though the articles reveal their journalisticorigin alike in their form and in acertain evanescent timeliness, alreadypartly out of date, it has not been consideredadvisable, under the circumstances, to re-castthem into more permanent form. They arere-published as written save for some slighttextual corrections.
J.W.D.
CONTENTS
A Landmark of the Canadian Battlefields . . . ...