"Hello, boys, how are you getting on ?" "Fine, Sir, fine," was their ready response.

"Well, boys, keep that spirit up," I said, "and we'll win the war." At first we had no "wet" canteen where beer could be procured.

The inns in the villages around became sources of great attraction to the men, and the publicans did their best to make what they could out of the well-paid Canadian troops.

The maintenance of discipline under such circumstances was difficult.

We were a civilian army, and our men had come over to do a gigantic task.