36 - Drumfire: Artillery on the Western Front
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36 - Drumfire: Artillery on the Western Front
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What killed more First World War soldiers than the machine gun, the flamethrower, and the tank combined? Artillery.
Six in ten battlefield casualties in the First World War were caused by shellfire, according to the British Army's own medical statistics. It is the deadliest weapon of the war, and the one almost nobody today can name.
In this episode of Memory and Valour, five Canadian First World War veterans tell it in their own words, recorded decades later: what a German barrage actually sounded like from underneath, the shell you learn to watch and dodge, the eighty pound dud you carry to a shell hole by hand because otherwise nobody eats supper that night.
Around their voices, we trace the real history of Canadian artillery in the Canadian Expeditionary Force: the shrapnel doctrine of 1914, the shell scandal that handed Canada its largest wartime industrial project, an Alberta gun brigade that could not locate a single German battery across six days of fighting at Saint Eloi, and the same Canadian Corps opening fire with total accuracy at Vimy Ridge, Amiens, and Canal du Nord, without a single ranging shot, two and a half years later.
Full sources, archival references, and corrections at memoryandvalour.ca.