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Newspaper
Yea Chronicle
Location
Yea, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
4
An officer of the British Expeditionary Force recalls a midnight band playing as Canadians left the Ypres salient. The brass and drums sparked sudden energy among exhausted troops, turning a long hot march into a buoyant moment amid cobbles, cows, and stars. The Sherwood Foresters' band was noted as the source of the music.
The ravaiCAL STANDARD reports bantams, men under five feet two inches without boots, may enlist in the ALF after approval by Imperial Army authorities. Minimum chest girth 33 inches fully expanded and infantry service possible. exceptions for special service with machine gunners and divers. The move aims to boost recruitment.
Fragmentary wartime reminiscence describes gas exposure affecting Canadian and Warwickshire troops. A Private Roberts collapses in trenches at night, visibility and sense of suffocation worsen, stretchered away as fear and nausea spread among the wounded.
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