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



You can't describe the moral lift,
when in the fight your spirits weary
hears above the hostile fire,
Your own artillery.
Shells score the air like wavy hair
from a forward battery.
As regimental cannon crack
While from positions further back,
in bitter sweet song overhead
crashing discordantly
Division's pounding joins the attack;
Mother like she belches shell;
Glorious it flies, and well,
As, with a hissing screaming squall,
A roaring furnace, giving all,
she sears a path for the infantry....

- Aleksandr Tvardovskiy, from the poem "Vasily Tyorkin" 1943.

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Today in Military History

April 9



1869:

Le Regiment de la Chaudiere: Aere Prennius (Truer than steel)


1869:

Les Fusiliers du Saint-Laurant: J'y Suis En Garde (I am on guard)


1917:

ARRAS, 1917, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 4 May 17)


1917:

VC won by Capt Thain Wendell MacDowell, 38th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France


1917:

VC won by L/Sgt Ellis Wellwood Sifton, 18th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (posthumous)


1917:

VC won by Pte William Johnstone Milne, 16th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (posthumous)


1917:

VIMY, 1917, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 14 Apr 17)




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