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Calgary's Battalion Park
The Great War 1914 - 1918
| Basic training completed, soldiers marched proudly to the railway depot on 9th Avenue, and traveled across the country. Boarding troopships, at Quebec or Halifax, they sailed for Britain. Soon, orders took them across the Channel, into battle. In Belgium France and throughout Europe, at Vimy, Hill 70, Ypres, Amiens, Passchendaele, and elsewhere, Canadians fought and died in the greatest horror the world had known, Poison gas destroyed their lungs. Sometimes food and water rations were lost. Relief troops missed their exchanges in the bombed trench lines and shell holes. Persistent | mud and cold alternated with broiling sun. The shriek and thunder of shells; flying shrapnel; lice rats; the hell of trench warfare, sometimes so close to the enemy that you heard whispers in their muddy dugouts as you huddled in your; trench fever; the death of many men and animals. The war dragged on. As news of the Armistice was signalled to the trenches, exhausted soldiers stacked their arms and wondered at the future. At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, 1918, church bells chimed factory whistles blew and people rejoiced. The "war to end all wars" was over. |
Battalion Parks location:
3015-Signal Hill Drive S.W. (top side)
Battalion Parks location:
Signal Hill Shopping Centre S.W. (bottom side, behind Staples)
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