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LIEUT. R. LEWIS, M.M.
OVER THE TOP
WITH THE 25TH
CHRONICLE OF EVENTS
AT VIMY RIDGE AND
COURCELLETTE
BY
LIEUT R. LEWIS, M.M.
1918
H.H. MARSHALL, LIMITED
HALIFAX, CANADA
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter One
he end of August, 1914, found me following my usual employment assecond mate on a small steamboat plying between St. John's,Newfoundland, and various stations on the coast of Labrador. The newsfrom the front aroused my patriotism, and though my captain, who was aBritisher through and through, strongly urged me to remain with himbecause of the great difficulty of securing another man, I was fullymade up in my mind that my clear, plain duty was to enlist. On myreturn trip to St. John's I found, greatly to my disappointment, thatit was all too late to enroll my name in the already organizedNewfoundland regiment. There was nothing for it but to cross to Canadaand try my luck at enlisting there. Arriving at Sydney, and makingenquiries, I discovered that the second division was not going to beformed up for some little time, and I therefore enlisted in the 94thArgyle and Sutherland Highlanders. With them I remained in Sydneyuntil October of the same year when the 25th Battalion wasorganize