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Updated: June 27, 2025

We were again fortunate in getting very good accommodation good airy barns, a mill-pond for washing, and a well of no-worse-than-the-ordinary water. But imagine our surprise to find chalked on the gate of the largest and best farm a sign: Here we were in a fix, as the men would not enter the place till we hunted up that long-suffering individual the interpreter.

Frederic C. Curry - From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade