Collection search - Copping, E.N. - 5th Battalion - Interview

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: FLANDERS FIELDS

1980-0123

Sound

1 of 1

1964-02-07

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

interviewer, Frank Lalor

Lieutenant E. N. [Ernest Noel?] Copping is interviewed about his service with the 5th Canadian Infantry Battalion during World War I.~Copping and 5 chums enlisted with the 27th Light Horse in September 1914, and recalls that they acquired a mascot, a goat which "stayed with us, went to France with us, was wounded, decorated and stuffed" and is now displayed in Saskatoon.~After seeing action for the first time at Neuve Chapelle, Copping describes the Second Battle of Ypres where they were bombarded with a new shell which caused them to "weep." "We were nearly suffocated by gas...which was like pea soup" and "we were having a devil of a time with our Ross rifles."~At Festubert Copping was issued a new gas mask and "went over the top" to take K5. At Hill 60 Copping states, "We got the worst bombardment I have ever experienced." "They just about wiped us right out." At the Somme, Copping recalls taking the Hessian trench before he was wounded and evacuated to England.

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GAD 0FD547

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