History 1810E Lecture 9: History 1810E - Lecture 9.docx
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He didn"t develop a relationship with his soldiers (but they respected him) Eg. when he was walking with his seniors, he would walk on the boardwalk while they would walk on the mud beside him (he was a. Fusspot": passchendaele (july 1917, passchendaele came in the wake of vimy ridge, for a long time, it was argued that passchendaele had no strategic purpose. By 1916, there was full employment in canada (anyone who enlisted at that point was taking a substantial cut in pay, and the government was arguing they needed workers at home) There were so many people being killed that it didn"t seem like a good idea to join the infantry existed before the war was wiped out: it cost the allies 300,000 casualties. The cemetery at tyne cot near passchendaele is the largest cemetery in the world.