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Frank Hamilton Mewburn

Mewburn's response to Sam Hughes telling him he was too old to enlist: “Reference your wire — go to hell! I am going anyway.”

Agar Stewart Allan Masteron Adamson

He had a natural gift for command, and an innate respect for his men.

Andrew Edward McKeever

Awarded the Military Cross on 17 September, he was cited for “his splendid dash and determination” and “exceptional fearlessness.”

Harry Stephen Quigley

His experience in the trenches had left him in a state of depression, with a constant nervous tremor.

Frederick Joseph Stevenson

Credited with destroying three observation balloons and 18 enemy aircraft, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross...

Onésime Readman

Readman certainly fell prey to his ambition and his appetite for power and honours.

Sir Edward Whipple Bancroft Morrison

He reported how impressed he was with the coolness of his gunners in engagements that cost the 1st Canadian Division a third of its 18,000 troops.

Sir David Watson

He wrote, "My God! What an awful night we have had. Lost about 200 men & 6 officers of no.1 Coy. They are embedded in my mind to be ever forgotten."

George Burdon McKean

Perhaps because of his size, and his aptitude, McKean was often assigned to scouting duties, creeping across no man’s land and reporting on the enemy.

Charles James Townshend Stewart

He has the vitality of Hercules but remains normal by undermining operations, such as fifty cigarettes a day and the output of a whiskey factory.