canadians

Too many wire's posts,too much grasses.

i think victoran47 you are missing the point... the photogs aren't interested in having their photos critiqued... since they are long dead... this is what their war looked like...

This is what war looks like laying in the grass looking over your rifle, waiting for the clear to advance. Its honestly an amazing shot, iam sure for those what might remember it looks exactly like it.

—Photo caption from AWM: "Canadians advance south of the railway. Canadian skirmishers with a tank of the 13th Tank Battalion attacking a machine gun post, which was on the north side of the railway hedge, in front of the Australian sector of the line. Some difficulty was experienced in obtaining this photograph as the men were at the time under heavy fire from machine guns from the trees on the skyline in the distance on the right. Seen in the centre, Lieutenant (Lt) Hall and Lt Payne routing out an enemy machine gun post. "Taken August 10, 1918, at Picardie, Somme, Lihons, France."

A very interesting picture

Frank Herbert Burnside (1888-1935): earlyaviators.com/eburnsid.htm

Though the caption on the slide says "Veck," the British aviation journal Flight, using this very photo (in better shape), identifies this aviator as Hugh Peck, with a "P." See: www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1915/1915%20-%200635... Also, read here of the third reunion of most of these and other Canadian ex-Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) aviators at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal on December 10, 1922 (once more, Hugh Peck is among those listed as attending): www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1922/1922%20-%200059... See also: Frank McGill en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McGill George Hodgson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hodgson

pennylrichardsca and TVL 1970: Thanks for the information on these aviators and for the correction in Hugh Peck' s name. We will update the description.

The journal cited by TVL1970 is now only available by subscription. See www.flightglobal.com/flight-international/digital-issues-...

Page 668 of Flying, Volume 4, September 1915
www.google.com/books/edition/Flying/st1LAAAAYAAJ?gbpv=1&a...
shows that the four men other than Frank Burnside were awarded pilot certificates for a hydro-aeroplane.

Frank Burnside was chief test pilot for Thomas Brothers, according to
www.mccarran.com/NVAHOF/BiosTouchScreen/Burnside
See also www.earlyaviators.com/eburnsid.htm and

@swanq Thanks for adding new links to info now that the other has a paywall.

This was an remains a very controversial incident in Canadian military history. Critics of Gen. Arthur Currie question the decision to fight for the liberation of Mons when the Armistice was imminent. The last Canadian soldier died 2 minutes before the 11:00 a.m. end of fighting. See www.hardscrabble.ca/?q=taxonomy/term/33