13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF

The 1st Canadian Division served on the Western Front from April 1915 until the armistice in November 1918.

Its baptism of fire occurred at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, when the German Army used chlorine gas for the first time in war.

Neighbouring French divisions fled in terror from the new weapon, but the Canadians held the line at tremendous cost.

Two other members, Herman James Good and John Bernard Croak, were awarded their crosses for action on 8 August 1918 at Hangard Wood, near Amiens in France.

A wooden cross memorial originally erected at Vimy Ridge but later erected at the Canadian War Museum is dedicated to the 13th Canadian Battalion the Royal Highlanders of Canada killed in action Vimy Ridge April 1917.