72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada - Electric Scotland

AFTER THE ARMISTICE.
It was a proud day for Canada, for the Canadians, with Sir
Arthur Currie at their head, led the column.
The march over, the men were given the remainder of
the day in London, getting back late that night to Bramshott
to await the arrival of the Battalion. On May 4th
the 72nd filed aboard the transport which was to convey
them to Southampton. As the last hawser splashed into
the stream and the lane of water between the ship and
the dock widened with the thrust of the screws, they real
ized that if France was receding from their view it was
a land of ineffaceable memories. It might be a long time
before they saw its
shores again, but they could not forget
their gallant comrades, not so fortunate as they, to whom
the joy of sailing for home would never come.
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