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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: FLANDERS FIELDS

1980-0123

Sound

1 of 1

1963-11-19

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

interviewer, Frank Lalor

Interview with Guy Mills, an officer with the 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion, who talks about his experiences in World War I. He begins with his enlistment in Toronto and continues with his training at Valcartier and later at Salisbury where dinner was usually "fatty mutton stew."~In Europe, Mills describes the battle to secure Upton Wood and the rising resentment against German prisoners of war. Turning to the advance on the Canal du Nord, Mills describes the heavy loss of life from the German machine gunners and states that once overun, the Germans were anxious to surrender which made the Allied troops "mad - thinking of the buddies left behind." "Sometimes it was too bad for these fellows who wanted to surrender."~Wounded in battle and evacuated to Manchester, Mills recalls that many of the recuperating soldiers succumbed to the influenza epidemic. There were "funeral corteges as far as you could see."

English

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GAD 0FD547

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