Fransız Mareşal Ferdinand Foch, Fransa Başbakanı Georges Clemenceau, İngiltere Başbakanı David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando ve Baron Sidney Sonnino. (1919, Versay Sarayı)
English: Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches) Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.) Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: cipated in attacks at Festubert and Given-chy, which, in conjunction witli Frenchattacks farther south, were intended tolead to the capture of Lille, but whichliroke down liecause of insufficient gunsand munitions and the absence of secretconcentration. The Festubert fighting tookplace less than a month after the begin-ning of the ordeal at Ypres. The Sixteenth(Canadian Scottish), including men fromVancouver, Winnipeg, Victoria and Ham-ilton, took part in the famous fight for theorchard at that point. The gallant Tenthalso made an attack on a position nearbyknown as Bexhill, and suffered 300 cas-ualties. Parts of the Fifth and Seventhbattalions, a squadron of the StrathconaHorse, aided in this fighting, and theselater were reinforced by the Second Bat-talion and the Royal Canadian Dragoons.The Second Brigade lost one-fourth of itsnumbers in this see-saw fighting. On May25th the troops that had taken Bexhill werebrought under the command of Brigadier-General Seely, a well known English Text Appearing After Image: 350 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK statesman and cavalry officer, who hadamong his command the Second King Ed-ward Horse. From this time Brigadier-General Seely conunanded the CanadianCavalry Brigade. On the 21st the Canadian Division wasremoved to the south end of the Britishfront, near GivenJiy. Here the First Can-adian (Ontario) Battalion made an attackon Stony Mountain to assist a Britishattack on tlie left. Out of 23 combatantofficers who wentl into tliis action, onlythree missed death or wounding. Thethree included the commander, Lt.-ColouelHill. The fatalities included Lt.-ColonelBeecher, the second in command. Afterthis engagement, the Division was movedinto a quiet part of the front at Ploeg-street, just north of the Belgian frontier,where the First Dominion Day in thetrenches was celelirated on the 1st of July. Justice to the work of the Princess Pa-tricias Light Lifantry requires it to bestated that this regiment was the first ofthe British forces from overseas to getinto action in t Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.