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Edited sentence: He was sent to France in the fall of 1916 to fight in the First World War.His biographer, John Watson, notes the physical wound took seven years to heal, but the psychological damage lasted a lifetime.Innis suffered recurring bouts of depression and nervous exhaustion because of his military service.Innis's role as an artillery signaller gave him firsthand experience of life (and death) on the front lines as he participated in the successful Canadian attack on Vimy Ridge.Innis's war was over.It strengthened his Canadian nationalism; sharpened his opinion of what he thought were the destructive effects of technology, including the communications media that were used so effectively to "sell" the war; and led him, for the first time, to doubt his Baptist faith.On July 7, 1917, Innis received a serious shrapnel wound in his right thigh that required eight months of hospital treatment in England.Signallers, or spotters, watched where each artillery shell landed, then sent back aiming corrections so that the next shells could hit their targets more accurately.Trench warfare with its "mud and lice and rats" had a devastating effect on him.Upon graduation from McMaster, Innis's Christian principles compelled him to enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.Watson also notes that the Great War influenced Innis's intellectual outlook