As with the other battalions that formed the 1st Canadian Division, roughly two-thirds of the non-commissioned officers and men were British born, including many who had arrived in Montreal in the pre-1914 wave of immigration.
had been recruited by Montreal’s most prestigious militia regiment, the 5th Royal Scots known as the Canadian Black Watch. This gave the enemy the advantage of being able to observe and shell the salient from three sides. That battle, known as First Ypres, ended in November 1914 with the Germans in control of much of the high ground.
A rounded tumour bulging into the German lines on the Western Front, the position was an unfortunate legacy of the determined defence of the only major town in Belgium-Ypres-to escape occupation by the German army. PHOTO: george metcalf collection, canadian war museum-19700140-077Įarly on the evening of April 21, 1915, the 13th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force began preparations to take over part of the forward line in the Ypres Salient.
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