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

Item number (ISN): 116925
Title:	Flanders Fields : [background interview] McIlree, J.R. - 7th Battalion - Interview
Accession number:	1980-0123
Description:	World War I veteran, Major J. R. McIlree, is interviewed about his experiences with the 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion. McIlree provides a detailed account of his participation in Second Ypres. Assigned to the abandoned French trenches, he describes the battle field as a "graveyard." "When you tried to fill a sandbag, you dug into a body. It was the most eerie place ... that I have ever seen." He recalls a "wierd light in the sky" ... "and I know from my chemistry class it was chlorine." Once "the word came down for a ceasefire" and withdrawl, the men of the 7th Battalion were "right back in the village we started from." McIlree concludes with a discussion of a bombing raid in November 1916 when he led twenty men into the enemy trenches and took prisoners. "From then on things were much livelier in trench warfare." Part: 1 of 1 ORAL HISTORY English Audio
	Production: 1964-01-07
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:	C07434(1) A4 2006-06-0040(1) A1 2006-06-0040
	Physical description

Source:	DSINTRNL - 116925

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