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Fonds/collection: CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: FLANDERS FIELDS

Item number (ISN): 116909
Title:	Flanders Fields : [background interview] Lewis, Vick - Interview
Accession number:	1980-0123
Description:	Vick Lewis is interviewed about his service with the 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion and the 12th Canadian Railway Troops during World War I. Lewis enlisted in Toronto with an "adventurous spirit" not expecting the war "to last long." At Valcartier where "we were Saturday night soldiers", Lewis outlines the formation of the 4th battalion. In "the largest convoy ever to cross the Atlantic", Lewis was transported to England and subsequently to Salisbury remembered as "leaky tents in continuous rain." There breakfast consisted of "fat pork, bread, Tommy Tickler's jam made from mud of the Thames" and tea. He talks about his first time under fire in Flanders. "We went in cold turkey." At Festubert Lewis was wounded and later reassigned to the Canadian Railway Troops whose "sappers" laid one mile of track per day with work gangs of 1,000 men. He describes undertaking night patrol to protect the newly laid track because "Gerie could knock it out faster than you could build it." He recalls with humour the 10 franc fine for removing overhanging trees from the track because "every tree in France is marked and charted and must not be removed." In conclusion, Lewis recalls the Armistice and the demobilization riots fomented by "young bucks anxious to get home." Part: 2 of 2 ORAL HISTORY English Audio
	Production: 1963-08-27
Country of production:	cn
Creator:	Production company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Production credit: interviewer, Frank Lalor
Consultation:	open
Reproduction:	with permission of CBC Radio Archives, Toronto
Remarks:	Very large collection.
Consultation copy:	C07274(3) C07275(1) A4 2006-06-0038(1) A4 2006-06-0039(1) A1 2006-06-0038 A1 2006-06-0039
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Source:	DSINTRNL - 116909

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