"Salvage Work on the Canadian Front" Topic
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| Tango01 | 13 Jul 2014 9:18 p.m. PST |
"No one could suggest that any army was a "green" organization; nonetheless, the Canadian Corps ran major recycling programs with the object of re-using and salvaging whatever it could. Everything from rifles to water bottles to wooden crates was collected and re-used. Enemy weapons similarly were gathered on the battlefield, some used to train Canadian and British troops in their use so that in the next offensive German artillery and machine guns could be turned on their former owners. Other captured weaponry ended up in Canada as war trophies. The Corps' salvage operation was large and effective, so much so that General Sir Julian Byng, the former Canadian Corps commander and by 1918 a successful Army commander, paid a visit to one salvage depot" See here
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gets his hands on some fields and fences.