Navy.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart (Strategy, 1954; discussing the French army between the World Wars)

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Today in Military History

August 17

1917:

VC won by Pte Harry Brown, 10th Battalion, CEF, Hill 70 (near Lens), France (posthumous)

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