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This vintage book contains the fascinating treatise on being a rifleman, with information on the use of a rifle in war, what makes a rifleman, what a rifleman needs to know... and more. This text offers its readers a unique insight into what it means to be a rifleman, based upon the author's extensive experience from his childhood spent near the hunting grounds of Indiana to the time he spent on the savage battlegrounds of the First World War. The chapters of this book include: Canada, England, Flanders, The Trenches, Record Scores, Scouting and Patrolling, Trench Raiding, Sighting Shots, The Pistol in War, The Battle of St. Eloi, The Somme, My Final Score, The British Army, Notes on Sniping, The Riflemen in Battle, The Emma Gees, etcetera. This text is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.… (altro)
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This book is dedicated to all those members of the original Twenty-first Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who served in the Machine Gun Section during the time I had the honor to belong to that unit.
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AS THIS is the story of an alleged rifleman, I suppose it is fitting that I offer some evidence to support the allegation.
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To the men who fought under the Maple Leaf of Canada, the story of the achievements of those immortals of the first Division is as sacred as the Gospels. During the succeeding years of the war, each Division, as it came to the front, tried to emulate the exploits of the First.
Ypres: The Somme: Vimy Ridge: Passchendaele: Amiens: Arras: Cambrai: Valenciennes: Mons: – all are emblazoned in letters of gold on the Canadian escutcheon – but the greatest of these is YPRES.
This vintage book contains the fascinating treatise on being a rifleman, with information on the use of a rifle in war, what makes a rifleman, what a rifleman needs to know... and more. This text offers its readers a unique insight into what it means to be a rifleman, based upon the author's extensive experience from his childhood spent near the hunting grounds of Indiana to the time he spent on the savage battlegrounds of the First World War. The chapters of this book include: Canada, England, Flanders, The Trenches, Record Scores, Scouting and Patrolling, Trench Raiding, Sighting Shots, The Pistol in War, The Battle of St. Eloi, The Somme, My Final Score, The British Army, Notes on Sniping, The Riflemen in Battle, The Emma Gees, etcetera. This text is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
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