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THE EMMA GEES
Bouchard
THE EMMA GEES
By
HERBERT W. McBRIDE
Captain, U. S. A.
Late Twenty-first Canadian Battalion
Illustrated
with Photographs and
Trench Maps
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1918
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
To The Memory Of
William Emmanuel Bouchard
Lance-Corporal
Machine Gun Section
Twenty-first Canadian Infantry
Battalion
Killed in Action, at Courcellette
September 15th
1916
In Flanders' fields the crosses stand--
Strange harvest for a fertile land!
Where once the wheat and barley grew,
With scarlet poppies running through.
This year the poppies bloom to greet
Not oats nor barley nor white wheat,
But only crosses, row by row,
Where stalwart reapers used to go.
Harvest inFlanders--Louise Driscoll
INTRODUCTION
When the final history of this war is written, it is doubtful if anyother name will so appeal to the Canadian as Ypres and the YpresSalient; every foot of which is hallowed ground to French, Belgians,British and Colonials alike; not a yard of which has not beenconsecrated to the cause of human liberty and baptized in the blood ofdemocracy.
Here the tattered remnants of that glorious "contemptible littlearmy," in October, 1914, checked the first great onrush of the vandalhordes and saved the channel ports, the loss of which would have beenfar more serious than the capture of Paris and might, conceivably,have proved the decisive fac