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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
A.H.Cabeldu (RFC) Letter 24, 21.3.15 "(they) are a very smart lot. The fault with them is they have no respect for officers ...".
Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
J.K.McLeod (RN) Letter 4.10.17 Thorneycroft works, Basingstoke. There are great lumber camps set up. Here you find Canadian lumber men, Russians, Poles, Doukhobors and all the queer races that make up Canada.
Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
H.N.Edwards (GS) Memoirs p35 "... their uninterrupted flow of profanity beat anything I had ever heard".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
J.W.B.Russell (GS) Letter 3-5.10.15 "... seemed very decent fellows ... Britishers who had gone over to Canada ... Scarcely any Canadian born ... fine set of men toppingly built. However they were a condescending lot of beggars and did not all turn up till 4 a.m.".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
W.R.Ludlow (GS) Diary 6.10.17 "organisation perfectly wonderful ... unlimited money sent from Colonials". Men in trenches very well supplied.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
R.L.Mackay (GS) Diary p27 "it seemed to me that Canadians got too much praise" [for taking Vimy Ridge] More should have gone to other units and the 9th Div. 17.4.18 "a rum lot".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
D.Crockatt (GS) Diary 24.4.15 - "It is grand to see Canada and India so loyal and willing to sacrifice all for the
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
D.P.Hirsch (GS) Letter 6.4.16 Calls them the "Gawd damns".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
A.B.Lloyd (GS) Letter 10.12.16. Never any trouble with "the
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Canadians
J.W. Allen (GS) 18/12/15. Letter 'The Btn Doctor is a real typical rough Canadian, but quite a good fellowÂ…I prefer that sort to the ordinary R.A.M.C.
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