The senior chaplain of the 4th Canadian Division was Major A.M. Gordon. Gordon was a well known minister and a much published fiction author. In mid-March, prior to the battle, Gordon reported that all Canadian unit commanders in the 4th Division, except for one, had welcomed regular worship parades. During the trench raids in preparation…

Rev Oswald Smith, who went on to become a famous minister himself, recounted some impressions of Rev John Doole Morrow just before he left for service overseas. “At the time, the Rev. Morrow was the first man in Toronto, if not in Canada, to go without a hat, He had vowed that he would not…