Brave Battalion (47 page)

8
Urquhart, diary, 5.

9
Ibid, 5-6.

10
Ibid.

11
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 78.

12
Ibid.

13
Urquhart, diary, 5-6.

14
16
^th
Battalion War Diary, May 1915, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.

15
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 79.

16
Urquhart, diary, 7.

17
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 79-80.

18
Urquhart, diary, 7-8.

19
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 405.

20
Nicholson, 103-04

21
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 81.

22
Ibid, 81-82.

23
16
^th
Battalion War Diary, June 1915, n.p.

1
H. M. Urquhart,
The History of the 16
^th
Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914- 1919
(Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada, 1932), 88-89.

2
Ibid, 95.

3
Ibid, 97-98.

4
H. M. Urquhart personal diary, University of Victoria Special Collections, 36-37.

5
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 99-100.

6
G. W. L. Nicholson,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
(Queen's Printer: Ottawa, 1964), 109-15.

7
Urquhart, diary, 34.

8
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 101-02.

9
Ibid, 103-04.

10
Urquhart, diary, 35.

11
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 105.

12
Nicholson, 115.

13
Ibid, 120-21.

14
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 111-14.

15
Urquhart, diary, [as of November 24, 1915, Urquhart started numbering his pages from one forward once again without explanation of the reason], 3.

16
Ibid, 2.

17
15
^th
Battalion War Diary, December 1916, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.

18
Kenneth Radley,
We Lead, Others Follow: First Canadian Division, 1914-1918
(St. Catherines, ON: Vanwell Publishing Limited, 2006), 65-66.

19
Urquhart, diary, 8.

20
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 114.

21
Radley, 81-82.

22
14
^th
Battalion War Diary, December 1915, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.

23
Urquhart, diary, 8.

24
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 115.

25
Ibid, 122.

26
Andrew Godefroy, “Portrait of a Battalion Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel George Stuart Tuxford at the Second Battle of Ypres, April 1915,”
Canadian Military Journal
, Summer 2004, 55-56.

27
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 123.

1
Winston Groom,
A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
(New York: Grove Press, 2002), 67.

2
H. M. Urquhart,
The History of the 16
^th
Battalion
(
The Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914- 1919
(Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada, 1932), 123-24.

3
Groom, 138-39.

4
G. W. L. Nicholson,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
(Queen's Printer: Ottawa, 1964), 133-13.

5
Ibid, 138.

6
Groom, 144.

7
Nicholson, 139.

8
Ibid, 140-41.

9
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 125.

10
http://www.greatwardifferentcom/Great_War/British_Front/Hills_01.htm
, accessed August 16, 2007, reproduction of text from
The War Illustrated
, 11 May, 1918, Lovat Fraser, “The Epic Battles for the Hills,” 3.

11
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 125.

12
Ibid, 127-28.

13
Ibid, 126-27.

14
Nicholson, 142-44.

15
Ibid, 145-47.

16
Roland H. Hill, “Holding the Salient, 1916,”
Canada in the Great War
, Vol. 3 (Toronto: United Publishers of Canada Limited, 1919), 257.

17
Jack Granatstein,
Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), 88.

18
Nicholson, 148.

19
Ibid, 147-151.

20
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, June 1916, Appendix 35: First Operation, 2 to 7 June, 1916, Library and Archives Canada, 1.

21
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 135.

22
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, Appendix 35, 1.

23
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 136-37.

24
Ibid, 137-38.

25
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, Appendix 35, 2.

26
Nicholson, 150-51.

27
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 138.

28
Nicholson, 151.

29
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, Appendix 35, 2.

30
H. M. Urquhart, personal diary, University of Victoria Special Collections, n.p.

31
14
^th
Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, June 1916, Appendix: “Counterattack on Maple Copse and Observatory Ridge Positions,” Library and Archives Canada, 2.

32
Urquhart, diary, n.p.

33
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, Appendix 35, 4.

34
Ibid, 4.

35
Nicholson, 152.

36
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 141.

37
Ibid, 142.

38
Ibid, 142-44.

39
Nicholson, 153.

40
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 385.

41
Ibid, 144.

42
Ibid, 148-49.

43
Ian V. Hogg and John Weeks,
Military Small Arms of the 20
^th
Century
(Northbrook, IL: DBI Books, n.d.), 285.

44
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 144-50.

45
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, June 1916, Appendix 52, 6.

46
Nicholson, 153-54.

47
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 154.

1
G. W. L. Nicholson,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
(Queen's Printer: Ottawa, 1964), 160.

2
Jay Winter and Blaine Baggett,
The Great War: And the Shaping of the 20
^th
Century
(New York: Penguin Studio, 1996), 157.

3
Nicholson, 161-62.

4
Ibid, 163.

5
H. M. Urquhart,
The History of the 16
^th
Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914- 1919
(Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada, 1932), 163-68.

6
Ibid, 168.

7
Ibid, 169.

8
Ibid, 169-70.

9
Ibid, 169-70.

10
3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, September 1916, Appendix 8, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.

11
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 172-74.

12
Nicholson, 166.

13
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 406.

14
Ibid, 173-74.

15
Nicholson, 168.

16
David Campbell, “A Forgotten Victory: Courcelette, 15 September 1916,”
Canadian Military History
, Spring 2007, 31.

17
Nicholson, 168-69.

18
Campbell, 31.

19
Nicholson, 169.

20
Campbell, 34-40.

21
Nicholson, 173.

22
Ibid, 172-75.

23
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 176-77.

24
Ibid, 177.

25
Ibid, 177-78.

26
Nicholson, 175-76.

27
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 178.

28
3
^rd
Canadian Infantry Brigade, Appendix 52, 2-3.

29
16
^th
Infantry Battalion War Diary, September 1916, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.

30
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 178-79.

31
14
^th
Canadian Infantry Battalion War Diary, September 1916, Appendix 4, Library and Archives Canada, 2.

32
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 179.

33
14
^th
Canadian Infantry Battalion War Diary, Appendix 4, 2.

34
Nicholson, 178-79.

35
14
^th
Canadian Infantry Battalion War Diary, Appendix 4, 3.

36
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 179.

37
Ibid, 406.

38
Nicholson, 183.

39
3
^rd
Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary, n.p.

40
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
,

41
Ibid, 385.

42
Ibid, 181-82.

43
Ibid, 182.

44
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/cvw-muploads/published/183893_4.jpg
, accessed July 17, 2007.

45
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 185-87.

46
Ibid, 184.

47
Ibid, 187.

1
H. M. Urquhart,
The History of the 16
^th
Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914- 1919
(Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada, 1932), 406.

2
G. W. L. Nicholson, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
(Queen's Printer: Ottawa, 1964), 199.

3
Desmond Morton and J. L. Granatstein,
Marching
to
Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War, 1914-1919
(Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989).

4
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 188-89.

5
Tim Cook,
At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916
(Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007), 263.

6
Morton and Granatstein, 137-38.

7
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 191.

8
Morton and Granatstein, 140.

9
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 192.

10
Ibid, 192.

11
Ibid, 195.

12
Ibid, 198-99.

13
Jack Granatstein,
Canada's Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), 110-11.

14
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 192-93.

15
Ibid, 193.

16
Nicholson, 236-37.

17
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 202-03.

18
Ibid, 202-03.

19
Nicholson, 249-50.

20
Ibid, 249.

21
Ibid, 248.

22
Ibid, 250-51.

23
Ibid, 247.

24
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 212-13.

25
Cyrus Wesley Peck Fonds, MG30-E134, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.

26
Urquhart,
16
^th
Battalion
, 218.

27
Ibid, 218-19.

28
Percy Twidale, Interview by Elizabe
^th
Hazlitte, June and August 1983, Victoria BC, University of Victoria Special Collections.

29
16
^th
Battalion War Diary, April 1917, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.

30
Twidale Interview.