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Page contains 4 newspaper clippings reporting dead and wounded soldiers at the Front, originally from Ottawa and a mock battle staged by the Signallers at Landsdowne Park, Ottawa. Also included is a Canadian Army dental appointment card filled out for Sapper [Curril?], October 1916.

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  • [start clipping] OTTAWA OFFICERS IN CASUALTY LISTS. MAJOR ARCHIE SEARS, MacKenzie apartments, Ottawa. Killed in action. LIEUT. R. E. GREENE, 58 Primrose avenue, missing. CAPT. "DICK" McGEE, 185 Daly avenue, wounded. LIEUT. GORDON AMRSTRONG, 45 McLeod street, Ottawa, wounded. CAPT. E.G. FOSBERY, 182 Minto Place, Ottawa, wounded. CAPT. THOMAS H. BYRNE, 288 Lisgar street, Ottawa, wounded. LIEUT. J. LEIGH BISHOP, 223 McLeod street, Ottawa, wounded. LIEUT. JACK WILLIAMS, of football fame, whose home is at Kingston, wounded. CAPT. AUSTIN REIFENSTEIN, 396 Daly avenue, Ottawa, wounded. MAJOR F.E. HALL, of Montreal, killed in action. LT. ALLAN OLIVER, son of Hon. Frank Oliver, Somerset St., Ottawa, killed. [end clipping] [start clipping] Two Ottawa Officers Among the Wounded. 2 photographs Capt. Austin Lieut. Gordon Reiffenstein Armstrong. [end clipping] [start clipping] LIEUT. MACFARLANE REPORTED WOUNDED Went Over With Ottawa Battalion- Was Prominent in Sporting Circles. Lieut. Gavin S. Macfarlane, son of the late G.S. Macfarlane and Mrs. Macfarlane, of 391 Albert street, has been officially reported by the militia department as wounded in action. Lieut. Macfarlane is an Ottawa boy and was attending Queen's University at the time of enlistment in April, 1915. While at University he received his commission and was appointed to a local battalion with which he has been connected ever since. He is well known --- 1 photograph LIEUT. G. S. MACFARLANE. --- in sporting circles, having figured prominently on the Queen's football team and in other sports. He is an only son and his mother and sisters at home are anxiously waiting particulars as to the nature of his injuries as the mere mention of his having been wounded has so far been sent to them. [end clipping] [start clipping] OTTAWA IS SAVED BY THE SIGNALLERS Enemy is, However, an Imaginary One, But Tactical Scheme is Succesful. --- Lansdowne Park, Nov. 28. - Now that the Capital's peril is past, your correspondent is permitted to forward for publication details of the manner in which the Divisional Signal Company saved Ottawa from the enemy. The attack was made one day last week from the west, a large enemy force having been discerned advancing the previous day. Captain Lewis took command of the available members of the Divisional Signal Company (consisting of a full division) and stationing one brigade at Westboro', another at City View and a third at Rideau Junction, awaited developments. Headquarters were located at the Bank street bridge. Early in the day the three brigades established communication lines with each other, and with headquarters so that the reserve forces could be used to the best advantage as the enemy's attack developed. The enemy commander showed great brilliancy in mobilizing his forces, but the well maintained communications of the defending army enabled them to make splendid use of their interior lines for mustering sufficient men at the threatened points. Started Early. The Signal Depot began work at a very early hour, but scarcely were their lines laid when the preliminary shelling began at Rideau Junction. This proved to be a false alarm, however, as the main attack was made on the centre near the City View brigade. Reinforcements were mustered shortly after noon hour and the attack was repulsed with heavy enemy losses about 4 o'clock. A feature of the day was the great cheerfulness of the despatch riders, who dashed madly about on motorcycles, utterly regardless of the rain (of shells, of course). The enemy which seeks to lay the Dominion's Capital in the dusthas a happy faculty of making his attacks nearly always on a Wednesday, but he is a courteous foe, and knowing that the Signallers were busy with their entertainment last Wednesday postponed his most recent attempt until Thursday. [end clipping]
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