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Title: The Red Watch
With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

Author: J. A. Currie

Release Date: February 18, 2009 [EBook #28116]

Language: English

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"THE RED WATCH"

WITH THE FIRST CANADIAN
DIVISION IN FLANDERS

[Illustration: J.A. Currie]

"THE RED WATCH"
WITH THE FIRST CANADIAN
DIVISION IN FLANDERS

BY
COLONEL J.A. CURRIE, M.P.

[Illustration]

LONDON:
CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, LTD.
1916

COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1916
By McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART, LIMITED
TORONTO.

PRINTED IN CANADA.

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY
OF THE CANADIAN SOLDIERS
WHO FELL IN FLANDERS

These for the Empire stood in war array,
Barring the Hun invader on his way;
Into the battle rushed at Duty's call,
Resolved to hold their trenches or to fall;
That Britons ne'er to tyrants bend the knee
But live as they were born, unyoked and free.
Now, in the bosom of a distant land
These warriors sleep, for such is God's command.
The Fates in all decree, and have their