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Title: The Emma Gees

Author: Herbert Wes McBride

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Language: English

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THE EMMA GEES

by

HERBERT W. McBRIDE
Captain, U. S. A.
Late Twenty-first Canadian Battalion

Illustrated with Photographs and Trench Maps

[Illustration: Bouchard]

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

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