Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 036   Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)

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1916 June 2 - Sutton Veny, "etc, etc" - p.4
photos give some idea of Prior Park, quarter-mile long
They say the CMR was busted up because they had bad training, let Germans
build a barricade that cost hundreds of men to clear. Men moved, officers
shipped home. A shame because most Canadian brigades have given a
splendid account of themselves.
(CMR = Canadian Mounted Rifles)


Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 036   Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)