Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918Examines the changes in tactics, training, and expectations of Canadian soldiers in World War I, because of the industrialization of combat. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... rifle seemed to do well . The straight- pull mechanism was considered ' a ... Ross was also a pound lighter than the Lee - Enfield . The British weapon ... Ross rifle was subjected , was brought in the " endurance test . " While in firing ...
... rifle seemed to do well . The straight- pull mechanism was considered ' a ... Ross was also a pound lighter than the Lee - Enfield . The British weapon ... Ross rifle was subjected , was brought in the " endurance test . " While in firing ...
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Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918 Bill Rawling. June the Ross Rifle Company explained that the first rifles with the new bolt would not be available until the end of August.93 It was too late . The issue came to a head when a ...
Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918 Bill Rawling. June the Ross Rifle Company explained that the first rifles with the new bolt would not be available until the end of August.93 It was too late . The issue came to a head when a ...
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... Ross rifles , 40 ; at Mount Sorrel , 62 ; at Vimy Ridge , 88 , 95 , 103 , 108 , 120 , 128 , 129 , 130 ; at Passchendaele , 152 , 158 , 159 ; at Amiens , 192 ; worst month of the war , 215 4th : and Ross rifle , 40 , 64 , 65 ; best ...
... Ross rifles , 40 ; at Mount Sorrel , 62 ; at Vimy Ridge , 88 , 95 , 103 , 108 , 120 , 128 , 129 , 130 ; at Passchendaele , 152 , 158 , 159 ; at Amiens , 192 ; worst month of the war , 215 4th : and Ross rifle , 40 , 64 , 65 ; best ...
Contents
Technology in the First World War | 3 |
The Road to the Somme | 37 |
Struggles on the Somme | 67 |
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1st Battalion 1st Canadian Division 2nd Canadian 3rd Division 42nd Battalion 4th Canadian 5th Battalion 78th Battalion advance aircraft ammunition April Arthur Currie Papers artillery support assault attack August barbed wire battle battlefield bombardment bombs Canadian Battalion Canadian Corps Canadian Divisional Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Infantry Brigade Canadian Mounted Rifles captured casualties commander Company counter-attacks creeping barrage Diary dugouts eighteen-pounders enemy enemy's fighting file 11 fire folder 11 folder 22 front line German artillery German defences grenades ground heavy howitzers Ibid infantry infantrymen learned Lee-Enfield lessons Lewis guns machine machine-guns man's land McNaughton Nicholson November objective October offensive officers Operations Carried Passchendaele patrols platoon positions Report on Operations RG 9 rifle-grenades Ross Rifle September shell signal soldiers Somme strong points tactics tanks targets Toronto Trench Mortar Battery Trench raids trench warfare troops units Victor Odlum Vimy Ridge weapons Western Front yards Ypres