Canadian Courage and Self-Sacrifice at 2nd Ypres, by Lord Beaverbrook | 22-28 April 1915 | Episode 68
Published on 22 April 1915
Lord Beaverbrook, who as Sir Max Aitken was Canadian "Eye Witness," had unexampled opportunities for watching the deeds of gallantry of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Here he describes the heroic actions during the Second Battle of Ypres, which in part or whole fell under his own observation. In the words of his friend Bonar Law, British Prime Minister in 1922, his account is "a model of lucid, picturesque and sympathetic narrative." Here he also describes the effects of the first use of poison gas by the Germans on the Ypres front.