The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-01-24
CANADIANS COM
/ ING FEBRUARY 3
WOUNDED OFFICERS TOTELL STORY
Patriotic Mass Meeting Called to Hear
Message Of Men Who Have Done
Their Bit in Trenches

Sunday afternoon, February 3, at
the Asbury Methodist church the
people of Hood River will be given the
privilege of hearing the story of the
great European war against German
autocracy from the lips of three
wounded Canadian officers who have
seen active service in the trenches.
The visitors, Lieutenant Colonel Mac
milan, Major F. B. Edwards and
Captain Z. j. Cook, are now making a
tour of the state under the auspices of
the Oregon National Council of De-
fense. The meeting will be in charge
of the Hood River Defense Council,
chairman of which is W. A. Isenberg.
The program will be interspersed
with musical numbers, and patriotic
songs will be sung by the entire as
semblage. The distinguished and vail
ant visitors will be introduced by
Mayor Dumble.
Lieut.. Col. Macmillan served with
the Seventh Battalion, First British
Columbia Regiment, enlisting August
4, 1914, the date of the declaration of
war. He went overseas with the first
Canadian division. Among the great
engagements in which he participated
are Neuve Chapelle, the second battle
of Ypres, Festubert, Givenchy, the
operations before Messines and the
Somme.
He was recalled to England as as
sistant director of transport, and pro-
NOTED to major, later receiving APP
pointments as assistant director of
supply and transport of Canadians,
with the rank of lieutenant-c colonel.
He is now on furlough. Maj. Edwards
was lieutenant in the Canadian mill
tia regiment, 30th British Columbia
| Horse, at the outbreak of war. When
| the regiment arrived in Flanders it
went into the trenches in the Ploeg-
steert sector, followed by service at
| Hill SO.
When the regiment was reorganized
to an infantry battalion, it was trans
ferred to the Ypres salient. Maj.
| Edwards, then captain, was wounded
for the first time during the Sanctuary
Wood action, being shot in the hip.
Upon his return to his regiment it was
moved to the Somme. At Regina
trench the gallant officer was wounded
for the last time and permanently
| iStliCu dCilNC SCINlSC. lHC pIlCc
he paid was the loss of both arms, torn
off by high explosives.
He has now been returned to Canada
for duty at Resthaven Military Con-
valescent hospital. He was recon-
mended for the military cross in Octo-
Der 1916, and received special mention
in dispatches by Sir Douglas Haig.
Capt. e. j. Cook. the huge, irrepres-
sible boy of the party, entered service
with the Western Canadian Cavalry,
enlisting in August, 1914. Ypres, the
Somme and Festubert are but three of
the many engagements through which
he passed.
At Festubert, in an assault on Ger
man third-line trenches, Capt. Cook
stopped two soft-nosed machine gun
bullets, which entered his right side
and traversed the stomach. Contrary
to all the predictions, he recovered
1t was also his fortune to be ''gassed'
at the second battle of Ypres. The
full complement of his wounds included
one in the left elbow.
Following recovery from his wounds
Capt. Cook served as an instructor in
military training schools in France and
England. He was also provost-mar-
shall in London for some months, and
air raids are by no means novelties to
him.