A TOUCH OF WAR The period of intensive training was drawing to a close.

The finishing touches in the various departments that had come to be considered necessary in modern warfare had been given.

With the "putting on the lacquer" the fighting spirit of the men had been sharpened to its keenest edge.

They were all waiting impatiently for the order to "go up." The motives underlying that ardour of spirit varied with the temperament, disposition and education of the soldier.

There were those who were eager to "go up" to prove themselves in that deadly struggle where their fellow Canadians had already won their right to stand as comrades in arms with the most famous fighting battalions of the British army.