The Nenana daily news., 1919-06-21
CANADIAN SOLDIER
 IS BACK IN NENANA
 FROM GERMAN TOWN

Among those arriving in Nenana on the steamer Alaska is W. D..
 Wallace, former Nenanaite, who less than two months ago, was with the Canadian army of occupation at Cologne, on the Rhine, Germany. | From the beginning of September last until November 11th, when the armistice was signed and the fi~ht- ing concluded, Wallace was on the firing line in the Arras sector, be- tween Douai and Cambrai, which sector was occupied by the Cana dians, and took part in the big Allied advance all along the line from Lille, in the north, to Verdun, in the south, when they crashed through the famous Hindenburg line and forced the Huns to accept the Allied peace terms and quit fighting. MT. Wallace wears the badge of the Canadian overseas forces, which consists of a shield in the center showing the British union jack en- circled by band bearing the legend, Canadian Expeditionary Forces," awarded to the British col onial troops who had supported the British imperial forces overseas. He has wealth of very interesting accounts of the actual fighting on the Western front and of deeds of personal heroism and devotion to duty of members of the unit to which he was attached
 MT. Wallace formed one of Cadas- tral Engineer Woodbgry Abbey's party during the summer of 1917, and left Nenana in the fall of that year for the States. On reaching San Francisco he enlisted in the Canadian army for service at the front, and with several others. was sent to North Vancouver for a two months training with an engineer regiment. When the two months were up his unit was transferred to St. John, Quebec, which was a rendezvous station for Canadian en- gineer outfits and where their Cana dian training was completed, pre- paratory to embarkation for the front
 The 1st battalion of Canadian en- gineers, to which Wallace was fin ally assigned, embarked on May II, last, on the transport City of Mar seilles, ana sailed with the convoy for lover there, steering a course that apparently led away from thc regular ocean trade routes. The convoy was composed of Is vessels, three of which were American trans ports with American troops on board. The convoy was led by an armed auxiliary cruiser, camou- tlaged to represent a peaceful mer. chantman, and was escorted oy flotilla of Canadian torpedo boat destroyers.
 When two days out at sea. some where in the neighborhood of the Newfoundland Banks, the escorting destroyers parted company with the convoy and returned to their home port, and save for the auxilliary cruiser at it's head, the convoy was unprotected. ....
 On the way over, the convoy, was twice attacked by German sub- marines, but in each case the fast auxiliary cruiser was able to beat them off and sink them. The con- voy was twelve days making the passage across the Atlantic, and when two days off the coast of Ire land, a strong flotilla of British destroyers picked them up and es. corted the convoy safely into a British port.
 While in England, the 1st bat talion of Canadian engineers was stationed at Camp Seaforth, Sussex. which is the headquarters for Cana dian engnieer units There they were put through a course of in- tensive training, received their new fighting equipment and as soon as they were considered sufficiently trained were sent across the mine