"Over the top": the meaning of a phrase now familiar

Category

Library Item

Item no

32696

Title

"Over the top": the meaning of a phrase now familiar

Description

From the Illustrated London News published October 21st 1916. Photograph from Canadian War Records.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1916

Size

39.6 x 26.7cm

Type

Press cutting; Reproduction

Canadian troops were involved in the First World War from the outset with Canada being a British dominion. They immediately sent 25,000 troops to France, but as the war drew on more and more soldiers joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force. By the end of the war 620,000 Canadians took part in the war and 67,000 of them died.

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