by Mark Zuehlke
recruitment activities. See mobilization
Red Lodge
Rees, Cpl. Hugh Arthur
Reichstag
Reid, Lt. Max
Reid, Sgt. Alexander
Reims
Reith, Sgt. William
Render, Maj. McKenzie
Rhine
Richardson, Piper James
Ridge, Sgt. Murdo
Riehl, Pte. J.H.
Rietchel, Capt. Ernest Otto
Roberts, Maj. Henry Lucas
Robertson, Capt. Robert
Rodgers, Lt. James
Ross (rifle)
Ross, Capt. George
Ross, Maj. Lorne
Ross, Pte. Jack
Ross, Sir Charles
Rouvroy-en-Santerre
Roye
Rudkin House
Rue de l’Epinette
Rue La Quinque
Rupprecht, Crown Prince (Bavaria)
Russell, Jas
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Sailly-en-Ostrevent
St. Armand
St. Eloi
St. Jean
St. Julien
Saint-les-Marquion
St. Mihiel
St. Nazaire
St. Quentin
Salisbury Plain
Sallumines Hills
Sancourt
Sanctuary Woods
Sarajevo
Sauchy-Lestrée
Sausage Valley
Scarpe River
Schwetz Wood
Scott, Canon Frederick
Scroggie, Maj. James
Sensée River
Slessor, Sgt. George
Smith-Dorrien, Gen. Horace
Soignies
Soissons
Somain
Somme
“Somme Patches”
Somme River
Sophie, Archduchess (Austria)
Stant d’Avril
Stark, Lt. William
Souchez River
Station Wood
Steele, Sgt. John
Steenbeek River
Steenstraat
Stewart/Cpl. Duncan
Strang, Lt. Harold
Stroombeek River
Sugar Trench
Sugar Valley
Sumner, Pte. Frederich
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Thélus
Thiepval
Tidworth
Tilloy
Trigger Copse
Thompson Lt. Edward Payson
Thompson, Pte. Tommy
Tor Top (Hill 62)
Triple Alliance
Tupper, Sir Charles
Tupper, Sir Charles Hibbert
Tupper, George
Tupper, Maj. Gordon
Tupper, Maj. Reginald
Turner, Maj. Gen. Richard E.W.
Turner, Brig. Gen. Robert
Tuxford, Brig. George
Twidale, Pte. Percy
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Urquhart, Maj. Hugh MacIntyre
Ushant
V
Valcartier
Valenciennes
Verdun
Vicoigne
Victoria Cross ,
Vierstraat
Vimy (village of)
Vimy Ridge
Virty-en-Artois
Vis-en Artois Switch
von Bismarck, Chancellor Otto
von Falkenhayn, Gen. Erich
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War Office (Britain)
War Office (Canada)
Warloy-Baillon
Warvillers
Wasmuel
Watson, Maj. Gen. David
Webber, Brig. N.W.
Wieltje
Williams, Brig. Victor
Wilson, Woodrow
Winnipeg Free Press
Wood, Capt. Stanley
Worral, Lt. Col. Dick
Wulverghem
Wytschaete
Y
Ypres
Ypres-Comines Canal
Ypres Salient
Yser, Canal
Z
Zillebeke
Zivy Cave
Zollern Graben
Zouave Valley
Zwischen-Stellung
Zwölfer-Stellung
10th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Canadian Cavalry Brigade
Canadian Light Horse
About the Author
Mark Zuehlke has been hailed by Jack Granatstein as Canada’s most popular military historian. Of his twenty books, nine have been works of military history. For Honour’s Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace won the Canadian Authors Association 2007 Lela Common Award for Canadian History. In 2006, Holding Juno: Canada’s Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches, June 7-12, 1944 was awarded the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Also a novelist, Zuehlke is known for the acclaimed Elias McCann mystery series, which chronicles the misadventures of a coroner in British Columbia’s Tofino. Hands Like Clouds garnered a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Best First Novel award in 2000, and Sweep Lotus was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Best Novel in 2004. Zuehlke lives in Victoria, BC. He can be found on the web at www.zuehlke.ca.
On September 28, 1914, less than two months after Canada’s declaration of war against the Axis powers, 16th Battalion shipped out from Quebec aboard Adania. This rare but underexposed image, taken from the ship deck, shows members of both the 14th Battalion (in caps) and 16th Battalion (glengarries) looking back toward Quebec.
The dilemma over how to merge four Highland regiments into one is clearly illustrated in this photo taken on the Salisbury Plain in 1915. Although the distinctive tartans are hard to make out, the differences in glengarries are plain to see.
Although his shyness led to a seemingly aloof manner, Robert Leckie’s experience leading Canadian troops in the Boer War helped him to bind the Canadian Scottish into a cohesive battalion ready for its first experience of combat. This photo was taken after Leckie’s promotion to Brigadier.
King George V (next to officer waving arm and carrying cane) reviews the 16th Battalion on November 5, 1914.
The Canadian Scottish raise their headgear in a salute to the King as he departs Salisbury Plain by car.
Canadian Scottish move toward the front lines in Flanders. Note the use of handcarts to move supplies.
Canadian Scottish having lunch on a section of front line where the digging of trenches was impossible, so sandbagged emplacements were created instead.
Canadian Scottish examine a crater created by a 17-inch shell fired in the Ypres Salient.
16th Battalion retake the guns in the orchard during the Second Battle of Ypres.
In July 1916, John Leckie was promoted to the command of the Canadian Scottish. More gregarious than his brother, he proved a popular commander.
Ploegstreet Church in the Ypres Salient during the summer of 1915.
Emplacements captured by Canadian Scottish in Sanctuary Wood.
Canadian Scottish soldier examines No Man’s Land from an observation post.
Even when the front was stalemated during the early months of 1916, units were still sent over the top on raids and limited attacks that yielded only more casualties.
No Man’s Land on the Somme, a landscape so devastated and exposed that collection of the dead proved impossible.
By June 1916, Armagh Wood had been reduced to a wasteland.
A trench on the Somme.
A tank lumbers forward during an advance in the Somme.
The first of four Canadian Scottish Victoria Cross winners, Piper James Cleland Richardson.
Lance Corporal William Metcalf ’s courage at the Drocourt-Quéant Line garnered him a posthumous Victoria Cross.
Pozières Ridge.
By 1916, it was hard for wounded soldiers like these ones not to grin if their “blighty” meant a long, or even permanent, escape from the battle lines.
In the lead up to the Canadian Corps assault on Vimy Ridge, powerful naval guns were used to batter the German defences.
April
9, 1917. Canadian troops advance under fire toward Vimy Ridge.
William Johnstone Milne’s bravery at Vimy Ridge resulted in a posthumous Victoria Cross.
Machine-gun posts in the muddy quagmire of Passchendaele.
Major James Scroggie was also one of the most indomitable Canadian Scottish officers.
The Canadian Scottish Pipe Band, February 1918.
Officers of the Canadian Scottish, February 1918.
The portly Lieutenant Colonel Cyrus Peck proved a brave and agile battalion commander, who led the Canadian Scottish through many of its hardest battles. His fearless actions at the Drocourt-QuéantLine were recognized by a Victoria Cross in 1919.
Minister of Militia Major General S. C. Mewburn shakes Pipe Major James Groat’s hand during an inspection in July 1918.
On October 1, 1918, Major Roderick Ogle Bell-Irving went missing while serving as acting commander of the 16th Battalion during the advance on Cuvillers.
Some days after the battle, Bell-Irving’s body was discovered in No Man’s Land, and he was buried by the regiment with full honours on October 17 at Eterpigny cemetery.
Heavy artillery laid down a heavy barrage at the Drocourt-Quéant Line on October 2, 1918, which helped shatter the German defences.
Highlanders stand amid the ruins of Arras.
Canadian Scottish advance on Cambrai.
The end of a long march, 1st Canadian Division crosses the Rhine at Cologne on December 13, 1918.
