Right on, jack. That's the figure I've found for Passchendaele so far, 16,000, and primed by our General Currie, Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden, in London for meetings at the Imperial War Cabinet, told Prime Minister Lloyd George that "if there is ever a repetition of Passenchendaele, not a Canadian soldier will leave the shores of Canada so long as the Canadian people entrust the Government of my country to my hands." For all the good it did. We had already lost 25,000 fighting barely seven weeks on the Somme. It was only part of the butcher's bill.

(A friend has a presentation 12ga Parker to Sir Robert Borden, of Nova Scotia.)

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